Every day, the Greenpoint Reformed Church does amazing help to help the less fortunate in Greenpoint and in North Brooklyln generally. Contrary to popular impression many of those that are helped are the working poor and senior citizens who simply can’t afford food. Miss Heather from New York Shitty passed along an appeal from the […]

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Is this huge Ismael Leyva 40-story tower proposed for the Greenpoint waterfront something that’s actually going to happen or just, you know, a pipe dream in a deflating real estate market where credit is hard to come by? One can draw one’s own conclusions. The development was reported by both Brownstoner and the Brooklyn Paper, […]

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And, we do mean the finest parts of Greenpoint.

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[Click to enlarge] Here’s one that a lot of people that don’t know this part of Greenpoint don’t know about. The toxic threat from “the Meeker Avenue Plumes.” The issue is complicated. At its most basic there is crap down there that has nothing to do with the Greenpoint Oil Spill that can kill you […]

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[Photo courtesy of Caryn Rose] This comes from Franklin Street in Greenpoint.

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This street couch comes to us courtesy of our contributor and dear, dear friend Miss Heather. She writes: “The attached couch hails from Greenpoint Avenue 11/4/08. I like to call it the ‘Barack Couch’.” And so it is.

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We don’t know from exactly which store in Little Poland this image of Don Corleone comes, but it comes to us from Miss Heather, who knows every inch of Greenpoint. The Godfather does look a little different in a Polish storefront, doesn’t it?

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[Photo courtesy jUSTINYC/GL Flickr Pool] Yeah, the pic is a couple of years old but it just got dropped into our GL Flickr Pool and it’s a pretty old truck sitting there in Greenpoint.

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We’ve seen many rodent poison feeding stations in our days of searching out construction site in North Brooklyn, but we have to say we’ve never seen one with a warning not to sit on it. Until now.–New York Shitty

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[Photo courtesy of Mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] Our photographer writes: “This restaurant/bar (now closed) was used as the exterior location for the mobster hangout in Donnie Brasco. It’s located at West St. and Java St. in Greenpoint.”

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There isn’t enough Purel in the world to make sitting down on the train feel safe after reading this story. We’ve go to hand it to Bitch Cakes. She seems to always find herself at the right place, at the right time… or just a few seconds shy of catching the culprit(s) in the act, […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Well, it’s not the best Barack mask we’ve ever seen, but it’s from Manhattan Avenue and shows that they’re in the Obama spirit in Greenpoint too.

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We don’t know about you, but the last thing we really want to deal with when we get off the G Train in the middle of rush hour after a long annoying day at work is get smacked by an SUV while exiting the train station. Well, actually, the dude thought they had drive through […]

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“Hey, I was wondering if you could help me out. When I lived in Greenpoint, there was a strange fenced-off property along the east river between Greenpoint ave and Kent street. There was a prefab looking house, lots of grass a some nice big trees. It seemed strange placed along all the riverfront warehouses. I […]

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This is not a lie. Greenpoint is getting a beer spa. What one might ask, is that? It’s a spa where one can get both a brewski and a massage. Yup. Per the dude working on the place, “Greenpoint has enough bars. We’re selling boutique beers. You’ll be able to knock back a beer and […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Our dear friend and valued contributor Miss Heather, who is truly the Queen of the Street Couch, among a great many other things, sent us this goodie, which she called “A Study in Denim” and the “Gonzo Couch.” It comes from N. 15 Street in Greenpoint.

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[Photo courtesy of mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] The photographer and GL Photo Pool contributor writes: “Me mums looks at the large photographic mural in the Capital One bank building at the corner of Calyer and Manhattan. I got snapped at by a security guard that I couldn’t take pictures. I took some anyway.” We do love […]

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Versions of this image of Barack Obama as Superman are all over Brooklyn and New York City. We caught up with this one on Driggs Avenue in Greenpoint.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Here’s a beauty located and sent to us by Miss Heather that comes from the sidewalk out of the Astral in Greenpoint. It comes complete with its own artwork, which is a very nice touch.

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[Photo courtesy of mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] We often have photos of pretty South Brooklyn sunsets, but they’re nice in the north too. This is a Greenpoint rooftop at sunset.

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NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) is having a Town Hall Organizing Meeting in early October, per the group’s great new blog, Neighborhood Watch: Save October 2 for NAG’s Town Hall Organizing Meetin. Our neighborhood is facing major challenges. The L Train is crowded, the G never comes. We need more open space. We need […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This is a section from Green Street in Greenpoint, where many fine, fine street couches have been found. This one comes, of course, from Miss Heather.

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[Photo courtesy of mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] This Labor Day Street Couch Classic comes from Guernsey Street in Greenpoint. Enjoy.

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We came across this specimen on Franklin Street in Greenpoint where it waited behind bars for its eventual disposal. There was also something written on it about trouble, but we don’t think it had anything to do with bedbugs.

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Earlier this week, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would do some testing at sites along Newtown Creek that could lead to Superfund status for some cleanups. The agency would have to find high enough levels of contaminants to make the determination. Habitat Map has created a simple map that shows the three […]

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