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Charles Evans Hughes: Greenpoint’s Forgotten Statesman

by Geoff Cobb January 17, 2019January 17, 2019

He did not look like a Greenpointer, he did not act like one either and with his eloquent vocabulary and upper-class speech he sure did not sound like one, nevertheless, […]

Williamsburgs’ Enchanted Fillmore Place and the Author Who Immortalized the Street

by Geoff Cobb December 10, 2018December 10, 2018

  Thanks in large part to the writings of celebrated author Henry Miller and the stately Italianate houses on the street, Fillmore Place were landmarked in 2009 and will forever […]

(Not) Forgotten Greenpoint: Transmitter Park – Attack of the Killer… Mockingbirds?

by Jen G July 11, 2013July 11, 2013

Okay, “killer” is an exaggeration. A reader wrote in to tell us a funny, but at the same time a little frightening story about her recent run in with an […]

Que Pasa, Greenpoint? Monitor Museum

by Maria Sadim June 12, 2013

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 […]

(Not) Forgotten Greenpoint: PREGNANCY TESTS & DOG SHIT

by Jen G May 31, 2013May 31, 2013

I thought I was pregnant so I dug up a pregnancy test a friend left me before she moved from Greenpoint to California with the advice, “Don’t get pregnant, idiot!” […]

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