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157th Anniversary of USS Monitors’ Greenpoint Launch

by Greenpointers Staff January 30, 2019January 30, 2019

  Today marks the 157 year anniversary of Jan 30th, 1862, the day Greenpoint staked its claim in history as the site where the ironclad USS Monitor was built and […]

Heavy Metal: North Brooklyn’s Rich History of Casting Metals

by Geoff Cobb December 7, 2018December 13, 2019

There are few regions of New York City that can match North Brooklyn for its history of metal casting. Many of New York’s most iconic pieces of cast iron, steel […]

A Stroll Down Historic Calyer Street

by Geoff Cobb December 4, 2018December 6, 2018

Calyer Street has one of the most beautiful groups of landmark row houses in Greenpoint, where Calyer Street meets Clifford Place. These five Neo-Greek brick houses were built between 1879 […]

Ecology to Take Center Stage at Monitor Museum Site

by Lucie Levine June 15, 2018June 15, 2018

The USS Monitor, built here in Greenpoint by Continental Ironworks in 1862, was one of the first iron-clad battle ships in the US Navy. During the Civil War, the Monitor […]

Greenpoint Monitor Museum Site Visit + Public Info Session (6/9 & 6/13)

by Greenpointers Staff June 8, 2018June 7, 2018

The Greenpoint Monitor Museum received a grant three years ago from the GCEF to build a museum honoring the USS Monitor on the shores of developing Bushwick Inlet, where the great ship […]

A Greenpoint Landmark Now Seems Doomed

by Geoff Cobb November 3, 2017October 30, 2017

In a previous post I reported that there was an application to demolish 85 Calyer Street, the historic home of the builder of the first ironclad battleship in the United […]

A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings: 85 Calyer Street

by Geoff Cobb April 19, 2017April 19, 2017

85 Calyer Street looks like many other frame houses in Greenpoint, but it was the home of the greatest mechanical genius to ever live in Greenpoint, Thomas Fitch Rowland, and […]

The Day Greenpoint Wrote a Chapter in American History

by Geoff Cobb February 1, 2017January 31, 2017

On January 30, 1862 the most important event that ever happened locally occurred. Greenpoint wrote its name in the history book when a ship was launched here that not only […]

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 […]

SUNDAY SNAPS: BROOKLYN DIGGERS

by Jen G October 30, 2011

Last Saturday the Brooklyn Diggers held a fun and educational event in Winthrop Park to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.S. Monitor, built in Greenpoint, during the Civil War. […]

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