Margaret Wise was an amazingly successful writer whose books have sold millions of copies. Brown developed an extraordinary talent to write for small children, perhaps unequaled in literature. Considered by […]
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Free Film Screening! Kosciuszko: A Man Before His Time
Tomorrow night (March 30th) The Polish Cultural Institute is screening a documentary about Thaddeus Kosciuszko at 7 pm at Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Avenue). There’ll be a Q&A session with […]
Posted inHistorical Greenpoint
Olympian Connie Darnowski: Greenpoint’s Greatest Ever Female Athlete
Hurdler Connie Darnowski represented the United States in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic games and is the greatest female athlete our area ever produced. Her success is all the more […]
Posted inEat & Drink
Sweet Toothed Vegans: Clara Cakes Popup At Adelina’s Today (3/26)!
Sunday, March 26th, 7:30-10:30pm Clara Cakes CookBook Pop-Up Adelina’s | 159 Greenpoint Ave. 19-year old LA chef Clara Polito will be in Greenpoint today to celebrate her new vegan dessert book. […]
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Keep Shea Stadium Alive, Williamsburg Bridge Crash, Geoff Cobb Is Famous —The Hook Up 3/24
It’s tremendously important to keep DIY venues like Shea Stadium open, which recently abruptly closed — it keeps the Brooklyn music scene, and the New York music scene alive and relevant. […]
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3 Neighborhood Lit Events To Spring You Forward!
Despite the news of each new piece of horrendous legislation, it’s been helping me to remember that reading and writing are a form of social justice. April is National Poetry […]
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Immigrant Defense Project Benefit + Art Show Tonight 3/23
Tonight (3/23) from 7-10pm, Greenpoint Hill (100 Freeman St.) is hosting a benefit to support the Immigrant Defense Project, a NYC-based non-profit. It’s also a good chance to catch Isaac Arvold’s show before […]
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The Greenpoint Woman Who Ran For President?
Belva Lockwood was an early feminist and one of the first women to ever run for president. She ran twice in 1884 and again in 1888 in the days before […]
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Friends of Greenpoint Library Meeting This Saturday 3/25!
Did you know that the mural on one side of the Greenpoint Library (107 Norman Ave.) is the work of artist Leslie A. Wood, and its installation in 2013 was made possible by the […]
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Women’s History Month: North Brooklyn’s Great Feminist Classic, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Great literature never grows old or feels dated, and no local novel feels more current to local women than Betty Smith’s enduring 1943 classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which […]