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Neighborhood News in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Greenpoint This Week: Potential Ferry Return, IRL Gallery Closes, and More

by Emma DaveyAugust 12, 2022August 12, 2022

Catch up on this week’s headlines!

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Polonia Bookstore Asks for Support from the Community

by Erin ConlonJuly 18, 2022July 18, 2022

The store has been serving Greenpoint for 24 years.

Posted inNews

What the Disco Ball Rite Aid Looks Like Now

by Emma DaveyJanuary 10, 2022January 10, 2022

Saying farewell to a neighborhood icon.

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

1940s Manhattan Avenue in Photos

by Greenpointers StaffApril 5, 2019April 5, 2019

Manhattan Avenue, like the rest of New York City, has seen a lot of changes since 1940, and here we’ve compiled a ‘before and after’ series of the northern stretch […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

Do the Time Warp: When Slow Commutes Made Greenpoint Feel Like a “Municipal Step-Child”

by Lucie LevineJuly 24, 2018

Welcome to our  final installment of “Do the Time Warp,” when we check in with life in Greenpoint 100 years ago. In our previous two sections, we visited Greenpoint circa […]

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Greenpoint History Walking Tour to Benefit the Park Church Co-op Saturday (7/7)

by Lucie LevineJune 29, 2018June 18, 2018

Beloved neighborhood worship/art space, the Park Church Co-op (129 Russell St.) has put out a fundraising call to the community. Ace local historian, and Greenpointers contributor, Geoff Cobb has answered […]

Posted inCommunity

The Hist List: Every Official Historic Landmark in Greenpoint

by Lucie LevineJanuary 2, 2018January 2, 2018

Do you want to know about the extraordinary history all around you? (Yes!!) Well you’re in luck. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has just released a revamped version […]

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

The Illicit Affair That Brought Greenpoint’s own Mae West to Hollywood

by Geoff CobbJuly 18, 2017July 18, 2017

In a previous piece I described how Mae West funded her scandalous 1927 play sex through her romance with the rich, handsome, but very dangerous gangster Owney Madden. However, it […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint, Culture, Historical Greenpoint

When Freedom of Expression and Censorship Battled on Manhattan Avenue!

by Geoff CobbMarch 31, 2016March 31, 2016

The other day, I gave a talk on the Irish history of Greenpoint, and a long-time Greenpointer offered me a new twist on a famous old Greenpoint legend. Before diving […]

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

Casting the Iwo Jima Memorial in Greenpoint

by Geoff CobbMarch 23, 2016March 22, 2016

The Bedi-Makky building at 227 India Street looks like any other ordinary industrial Greenpoint building. However, it was here that the one of the largest bronze sculpture ever cast in […]

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