Over on the lonesome eastern shore of Greenpoint, where massive tulip-shaped structures loom large over the horizon and process sludge from outer-borough toilets, life is beginning anew.
Tag: Newtown Creek
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Walter White Coffee, Development Sagas, & Life in Newtown Creek — The Hook-Up 10/16
Greenpoint Avenue is a Bike Blockers clusterfuck, according to WNYC. Most of us might be willing to make exceptions for vans delivering smoked salmon, however. Perhaps fitting that owner Deniz […]
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Toxic Waste & Overachievers — The Hook-Up 10/2
The world can’t seem to stop dumping on Newtown Creek. A company based in Bed-Stuy was caught dumping untreated industrial waste into the waterway via a bypass line, but it […]
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Dakota Kim Debuts ‘Poseidon’s Children’ at Brooklyn AirSpace
From the outside, it looked like just another two-story brick building, hunkered between a hardware store and a deli on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. People were drinking at Allswell or […]
Posted inEvents, What's Happening?
Soup Bowl Fundraiser, Shed Story Salon, Muse Memorial – What’s Happening, Greenpoint? (11/19–11/25)
(sponsored) Bushwick Community Outreach & Adoption Event @ Bushy Tails @ The Loom (8 Porter ave, Bushwick) SATURDAY 11/22, 12-6pm, Join local rescuers to raise awareness on the positive impact […]
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Ghosts of Greenpoint alive and well!
Happy Halloween Greenpoint!!! Before you head out to play trick or trick tonight it might be fun to arm yourself with some ‘real’  ghost stories to spook out your […]
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Getty To Pay $16 Million Towards Clean Up Of Toxic Newtown Creek
In 1978 a US Coast Guard helicopter on a routine check spotted oil spilling into Newtown Creek. An estimated 30 million gallons leaked into the soil and water, causing health […]
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Creepy Creek Haunted Canoe Tours Are Back – Get Tickets Now!
Nothing is scarier than what bubbles beneath the surface of the Newtown Creek – so if you really want to get creeped out for Halloween this year – consider a […]
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Newtown Creek polluters alive and well. State officials investigate fresh oil leak.
Anyone living in Greenpoint knows whatever lies in the murky waters of Newtown Creek is filled with some seriously nasty cancer-causing stuff: PCBs, VOCs, oil, anti-freeze—the list is endless.  In […]
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Style Wars, BikeCult, Dirtybird BBQ – What’s Happening, Greenpoint? (8/13–8/19)
There are more events in our weekly calendar. Submit Greenpoint events, too! WEDNESDAY 8/13 # BBQ Blowout @ Good Co. (10 Hope St) 7:30pm, $10, New York Sushi Ko doing some Japanese-inspired wizardy on […]