Here are some vids of Greenpoint, Brooklyn posted on YouTube. If there’s a problem with the embed, you can go directly to the player by clicking here. Enjoy.

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We found this during our wanderings around YouTube, where it’s described as “a seven minute short about robbery and pay back, Brooklyn style.” Click over to the vid on YouTube if there’s an issue with the embed.

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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As you know, we’re running some guests posts from some of our favorite Brooklyn bloggers. Today, we have the pleasure of presenting something from our friend and collaborator Miss Heather of newyorkshitty, AKA, our Greenpoint correspondent or the Dogshit Queen of Greenpoint. If you’ve ever wondered about the gentleman after whom McGuinness Boulevard is named, […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Newtown Creek, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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If you’ve ever wanted to get up close and personal with Newtown Creek, or just hang by the water and read a book, you will soon have your chance. The photo taken by our Greenpoint correspondent and posted on flickr shows the progress of work on the park at the end of Manhattan Avenue. Work […]

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We know that there’s an explanation for this, we just don’t know what it is. We can only assume that, at some point, the staircase leading to this second-floor disappeared. Whereas, the doorbell sign did not. In any case, this image, which comes to us from Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint, was captured by our Greenpoint […]

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So, if you find yourself looking for an activity next Sunday, consider “The Greenpoint and Williamsburg Waterfront: The Farewell Tour.” The “farewell tour,” which is not the first waterfront tour to bear the name, take place on Sunday, August 5 from 2PM-4PM. It’s a walking tour sponsored by the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. […]

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No, not that kind of Gawker. This kind of gawker. Our Greenpoint correspondent forwarded these images she’d captured in the neighborhood during a morning constitutional on Huron Street, where a crane is hard at work lifting material for 143 Huron, which may be one of the most glared at construction sites in all of Brooklyn. […]

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The 144-page report about Williamsburg and Greenpoint rezoning and gentrification from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers is not the kind of reading you bring to the beach on Saturday. Within the pages of the study conducted for the New York City Community Council, however, are some fascinating pieces of information […]

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What you’re looking at is one of the buildings of the Greenpoint Terminal Market that was left standing but partly collapsed after last year’s humongous fire. It has served as the focus of many photos that showed the area looking more like Berlin in 1947 than Greenpoint in 2007. Well, land clearance on the Greenpoint […]

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We received an email that the tenants of 202 Franklin Street in Greenpoint are planning a “Vigil Against Harassment and Displacement!” on Tuesday (7/24) from 6PM to 7:30PM. The rent-stabilized tenants were displaced three years ago by a fire and have been frustrated in their efforts to return. The email says: The landlords, Franklin Global […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent this image of the signage at Green Street and Manhattan Avenue, noting that a truck had mowed down on of the local stop signs at an intersection that construction has rendered treacherous for both motor vehicle, pedestrian and bicyclist. In any case, you’ll note one sign is way up there. The […]

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So, we were walking in Greenpoint north of McCarren Park when we saw a very familiar piece of machinery standing tall over the local buildings. It turns out the big thing that bangs North Brooklyn was on the scene. Specifically, our friend the prodigious Empire Pile Driver, which torments people all over Greenpoint and Williamsburg […]

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Now, we’re not structural engineers, but we’re not entirely morons either and what you are looking at, which was submitted to us by the tireless and very attentive Dog Shit Queen of Greenpoint, does raise some alarm bells. It’s the front of a building at 176 West Street in Greenpoint. Miss Heather writes, with uncharacteristic […]

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Earlier this week, Brownstoner had an update on the progress of the Karl Fischer building at 305 McGuinness Boulevard near the Pulaski Bridge. Today, we bring you an update on the progress of his five-story building on Diamond Street, which is not beloved by our Greenpoint correspondent. She describes it as “a masterpiece,” but not […]

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Ah, Greenpoint. We’ve seen windows being blocked by new construction and, now, we bring you air conditioners being rendered useless by new construction. This latest twist on quality of life augmentation, Greenpoint-style, comes to us courtesy of our very, very attentive Greenpoint correspondent. The building doing the covering is 112 Greenpoint Avenue. The overheated victims […]

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We call this gentleman, whose photo was captured and passed along to us by our Greenpoint Correspondent, The Thinker of Huron Street. Here, we find him practicing the Greenpoint Stare while gazing upon his rising neighbor at 143 Huron Street. We are given to understand that he actually has many things to think about including […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent thoughtfully sent along these photos of an older resident of Diamond Street staring at a new addition the block and, amusingly, yet another resident of the block watching her glare. The new building in question is 53 Diamond Street, which will have 8 units in its four stories. And happy neighbors.

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We have been down this road before with 98 Clay Street in Greenpoint, so we thought a “Now & Then” sort of comparison would be useful. There’s good news–the gaping hole in the fence we showed in March has been plugged up. And there’s bad news–now, the gate is open. Whoopee. Our Greenpoint correspondent who […]

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Only a handful of people turned up for the three meetings held yesterday at the Newtown Creek Sewage Treatment Plant on the big, underground Exxon-Mobil spill in Greenpoint. That could be because the Department of Environmental Conservation did little to publicize the events or because they were held at the off-putting sewage treatment facility, which […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent this gem of a resident of Huron Street watching the cranes at work on the building a couple of doors down. While you can’t see the expression on the person’s face, we don’t think it would be going out on a limb to say that we’re pretty sure he’s not smiling. […]

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Of all the bigger buildings plopped into a block of smaller ones, the one at 308 Eckford in Greenpoint seems to stand out from its neighbors. This pic, sent along by our Greenpoint correspondent, shows an actual human neighbor looking decidedly unhappy in the lower right hand corner. The photo below shows the view from […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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