Every first Monday in March is reserved for Casimir Pulaski Day … in Illinois. If you ever wondered who Greenpoint’s Pulaski Bridge was named after – it’s this Polish Born (badass) […]
Tag: History
Posted inCulture, Historical Greenpoint
A Dose of Greenpoint History – The USS Monitor
Last week, we hit the 152 year anniversary of Jan 30th, 1862, the year Greenpoint staked its claim on history as the site where the ironclad USS Monitor was built […]
Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint, Culture
Que Pasa, Greenpoint? Monitor Museum
Did you know that Greenpoint has a museum? Yes we do and at this time it serves as a traveling museum visiting local schools. Motiva Enterprises has donated waterfront property […]
Posted inCulture, Historical Greenpoint
Forgotten Greenpoint: WNYC Transmitter on the East River
Who listens to radio these days? I enjoy some WNYC action from time to time (when they are not doing a pledge-drive, of course), and my neighbor across the airshaft […]
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Forgotten Greenpoint: Keramos Hall On Manhattan Ave
This article made possible by a donation to our Writer’s Fund Raffle by Human@Ease. As Preservation Greenpoint reported last week, Keramos Hall at 857-861 Manhattan Avenue just won a Lucy G. Moses […]
Posted inCulture
Sunday Snaps: Greenpointers Laser Pointers
If you’re a longtime reader, you know that the website was once called THE Greenpointers. Greenpointers.com was a laser pointer website, originally. When it became available, they tried to charge […]
Posted inCulture, Reading
There Goes The Neighborhood: Chat With Author Robert Anasi
You know the old expression – there goes the neighborhood. Nowadays in North Brooklyn, that sentiment is in the air when new high rise condominiums go up or when the hipsters […]
Posted inArt
You aint that gangster, trust me.
56 years before Sean “Puffy” Combes went into Steve Stout’s office accompanied by several burly bodyguards and allegedly smashed him over the head with a champagne bottle, a percussionist named […]
Posted inCommunity, News
Vote For Greenpoint’s GMDC Building: $3 million on the line
Greenpoint’s own GMDC building, home to many artists, manufacturing and design studios and the future home of the North Brooklyn Boat Club has been nominated by Partners in Preservation to […]
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Pastor Marries Choir Girl Who Swims In the Newtown Creek
Everyone gives me crap for not being a “real” Greenpointer, but my great grandfather G. Clement Edson was the pastor of the Noble Street Presbyterian Church (1907-1911) and my grandmother […]