There are 1,215 photos on flickr tagged “greenpoint terminal market.” There are 1,701 photos that are tagged “greenpoint fire.” In addition, you can find cool post-fire exploration photo sets from e-liz and f.trainer.

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Yesterday, we started to crack a joke about how McCarren Pool would become a swimming pool again around 2030. Boy, were we wrong. The Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint and Williamsburg is reporting that money for recreating McCarren as a pool could be available sooner rather than later: …the Mayor’s FY2008 (begins July, 2007) budget […]

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We were amused to be thumbing through the Open Space section of the PlaNYC 2030 document and to find the following verbiage on Page Six: Opened in 1936, then closed in 1984 due to the deterioration of its systems, McCarren Pool will finally be rebuilt as both an outdoor Olympic-size pool and a year-round recreation […]

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The news about the Cat Powers show at McCarren Pool on July 7 and what it may mean is down below. (Yeah, we’re burying our lead.) Meanwhile, there’s an interesting letter in the Greenpoint Star from the President of Independent Friends of McCarren Park dealing with the background of landmarking efforts. (The Landmarks Preservation Commission […]

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[Photo courtesy of WPA] The Waterfront Alliance of Williamsburg and Greenpoint passes along news that one of the most significant remaining set of historic industrial structures in North Brooklyn will be before the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday (4/17). Two buildings have already been demolished by developer Isaac Katan, as part of a development that […]

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