We return to our “Say What?” series of compromised signage with this entry from the Greepoint Historic District, although some of the boundaries are a little unclear on the sign.

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If you’re interested in the future of kids in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, you might want to check out tonight’s “Town Hall Meeting on the Public Schools” in the community. A notice for the meeting says that “elected officials and community leaders are asking the Department of Education to work with the community to develop a […]

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It’s not a construction site, per se, so much as a destruction site, but the point is that the notorious site of the Greenpoint Terminal Market fire is looking interesting these days. What drew our attention is the heavy metal fence with the big holes punched in it. They do however, provide a nice vantage […]

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Not everything that was spotted on the Forgotten NY tour of Greenpoint related to historic structures. Take, for instance, this sign. Its maker explained that she made it because someone stole $70 worth of caulk from behind her gate. Miss Heather does an excellent job of explaining the background over at newyorkshitty and we urge […]

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No bikes over here. Put them over there, instead. Understood?

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Here’s a little taste of a local religious procession that passed down Franklin Street in Greenpoint on Sunday. It happened during the Forgotten New York tour of Greenpoint. If you’re a Brooklyn resident, you run into these processions from time to time. At least, we do. We enjoy and appreciate them.

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We participated in what was officially known as Forgotten Tour 30 yesterday. It was Forgotten NY‘s walk around Greenpoint. Writer and Forgotten New Yorker Kevin Walsh led the tour with an assist from Miss Heather of newyorkshitty. Among the things we learned is that it impossible to walk the streets of Greenpoint in a large […]

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We wandered into the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory‘s new location on Commercial Street in Greenpoint over the weekend and ice cream maker Mark Thompson giving away mini-cones of all his flavors. The shop, which is at 97 Commercial Street (at the end of Manhattan Avenue) has been open since Memorial Day Weekend, in fact, with […]

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We’re not sure whether the problem with the fence at 171-179 Diamond Street is one of aesthetics or if the darned thing might actually fall over and hit someone. In any case, our Greenpoint correspondent describes herself as “a big fan” of this one, based on that clear sense of cruddy cheapness that it conveys. […]

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Of all the mindbogglingly crappy development sites around Brooklyn, the one that our Greenpoint correspondent dubbed Crater Lake in sending along these photos almost makes our brains explode. (The photo was taken before yesterday’s downpour.) You can find this 18-foot-deep bomb crater at 265 Eckford Street in Greenpoint. A ten-story building with 18 apartment is […]

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Just in case you were thinking that the South Slope is the only place in Brooklyn with a crack problem, we can verify that Greenpoint has one too. What you are looking at is a photo of 131 Meserole Avenue, which was submitted by our intrepid and very focused Greenpoint correspondent. The problem would appear […]

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What can one say about this sort of palatial look, which was photographed for us by our Greenpoint correspondent, and all that Fedders action on Leonard Street in Greenpoint? The pink brick with the serious maroon decorative element? The ground-level garages with the metal doors? The only thing we can say is: What were they […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent the image of this building rising at 130 Diamond Street. It’s a Karl Fischer Architects project, which indicates that his prodigious output is spreading to Greenpoint. The building is five stories and will have ten units. It certainly looks big compared to its relatively diminutive neighbors. No rendering available, unfortunately.

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One of the things we love about Brooklyn are the contrasts that it offers, particularly between the new luxe condo version and the old non-luxe edition. Our Greenpoint correspondent, who knows a good, absurd juxtaposition when she sees one, offers us this one from Kingsland Avenue, which is in a corner of Brooklyn east of […]

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For today’s Construction Site du Jour, we turn to 53 Java Street in Greenpoint. It may not be dramatic or overstated, but it’s got everything a Construction Site du Jour should have: a wide-open fence, accessible construction equipment and oodles of fun for children, pets and adule residents with severely impaired judgement. We had an […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Greenpoint has a baby billy goat. It’s cute too. We don’t know if the goat lives in Greenpoint or if it was just visiting the neighborhood, but the photo was taken on Manhattan Avenue in front of a building that has some structural integrity issues about which we’ve previously written. […]

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[Photo courtesy of jukeboxgraduate/flickr] An item about a new vegetarian restaurant in Greenpoint deserves its own item in GL. So it is with the interestingly named William Taft Vegetarian Diner and Deli at 155 Calyer Street. The restaurant bears the name of U.S. President William Taft, who was a patient at John Harvey Kellogg’s Sanitarium […]

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This construction site at 80 West Street in Greenpoint deserves special recognition if only because the fence around it stands out for being so down and out. There’s nothing downscale about the property, which sold for $4.3 million last year. Perhaps they could have spared an extra few thousand for a fence?

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Remember that building with the long list of building code violations in Greenpoint that is being held up with steel beams? Well, we heard from a former tenant of the building. Among the highlights are that the fines haven’t been paid (excellent enforcement mechanism) and that construction workers have been afraid of a collapse. In […]

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What can we possibly say about this creepy FSBO Specimen on Eckford Street in Greenpoint, except that we’re glad we don’t live next to it? It comes to us courtesy of the camera of our Greenpoint correspondent. Asking price is unknown.

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We are endlessly fascinated by the possibilities of the stucco facades that are increasingly and tragically popular, particularly in North Brooklyn. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, we brought you what we called the Pepto Bismal Building. This specimen, dubbed The Doublemint House, comes courtesy of the Dog Shit Queen of Greenpoint, who, these […]

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We’ve shown this Greenpoint building before, but in a different context. Now, our Greenpoint correspondent reports a commotion at the site and sends along new photos. She writes: When I walked by there, a bunch of firemen were milling about. Two engines had even condoned off traffic on the block. Don’t know why they were […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent along the photo of 996 Manhattan Avenue, because she was taken by the steel bracing that extends from said building to the sidewalk in front. She writes: I found this modern-day example of a buttress next door to Pio Pio Riko. As you can tell, it takes up almost the entire […]

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A year ago today, the Greenpoint Terminal Market went up in a huge blaze that almost took part of Greenpoint with it. We remember looking up that morning and seeing a gigantic black column of smoke rising in the distance and wondering what the heck could be burning. Then, we heard it was a “warehouse […]

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