Many of you might be familiar with the nearby Huxley Envelope building, a fixture sight on the waterfront and an identifier of Greenpoint across the soiled waters of the East […]
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Paragon / Apollo Petroleum Remediation Public Meeting (3/12) #OSOM
On Wednesday March 12, 2014 at 7pm, the Greenpoint community is invited to a Public Meeting at Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave) to discuss the cleanup plan at Former Paragon Oil […]
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365 Green Living Pointers: GCEF Fund Proposal – Share Your Tips & Get a FREE Raffle!
UPDATE: all Greenpointers who fill out our Pledge Form below (which requires no purchases AKA FREE!) gets entered into our Raffle for our Holiday Market! (Deadline to enter: 12/8/13, 11:59pm) You […]
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$19.5 Million Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Accepting Proposals! Deadline Extended to 12/18
On October 16, 2013 a Request for Proposals went out for the $19.5 million Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) – for projects to improve Greenpoint’s environment. The deadline for submitting […]
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Greenpoint Landing “One Gigantic Brownfield Site”: If You Care About Greenpoint – Sign This Petition Now!
New York City is a place where change is inevitable, and where change comes, real estate development follows. It would not be the place it is without it. However the […]
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“A Cleaner City… is a Mindset” Obtaining Street Trash Cans in North Brooklyn
This article made possible by a donation to the Writer’s Fund Raffle by Greenpoint Heights. While Greenpoint is known for having numerous waste-transfer stations, super-fund sites, toxic releases, the oil spill […]
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Flammable Tap Water? Free Screening of Gasland @ IndieScreen on Saturday 1/26
A totally worthwhile and educational thing to do on a Saturday: Via GWAPP: “NAGG will be joining Riverkeeper for a screening of the documentary film “Gasland” at IndieScreen (289 Kent […]
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Is Greenpoint Safe? 10 Things To Do
Do you find it ironic that Greenpoint features the environmentally friendly Rooftop Farms, the new McGolrick Park Farmers Market, a Clean Green Dry Cleaners on Nassau Ave, among many other […]
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Sewage In Our Waterways: Do You Want To Know?
I certainly do. Our North Brooklyn Boat Club is out there paddling on the Newtown Creek. I saw a man on the India St pier this morning fishing for Striped […]
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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 […]