Here is a beautiful tan speciment from Green Street in Greenpoint. It comes from Miss Heather.

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The bankification of Manhattan Avenue continues. This time, a housewares store has closed and is morphing into a bank. It will be WaMu, per the plans spotted sitting on a table. “That makes three banks on one block: CitiBank, Dime Bank and WaMu…P.S.: Could someone please explain to me why banks have not seen fit […]

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One has to love an orange barcalounger on the street in Greenpoint, even if it’s not a street sofa, per se. It’s from Greenpoint Avenue and the red bike in the foreground is just a bonus. From the camera of Miss Heather, of course.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather]

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The Big Green Monster on Diamond Street in Greenpoint from Karl Fischer is now fully on view for the world to see. Here is what Hot Karl might have thought in designing it: “Let’s see, this building is slated to be in a neighborhood called Greenpoint. What can I do to make it ‘fit in’ […]

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The building at 48 Box Street continues to be a miracle of virtually immaculate construction. Having been hit by a series of Stop Work Orders, the building has still gone up rather nicely and might even be called a “masterpiece of illegal construction.” It’s friend at 95 Clay Street, on the other hand, hasn’t even […]

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“The Department of City of Planning has the rezoning of ‘East Greenpoint’ next on their list…a large 170+ block area east of the BQE…City Planning has promised to have the larger rezoning (covering an area roughly from Maujer Street north to Newtown Creek) into the public review process by Autumn of this year.”–WGPA

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We have written about 1000 Manhattan Avenue before. Now, there is an entire story attached to it: “Two crossing steel beams—one apparently holding up the other—were placed against the building’s façade and onto the sidewalk. At the end of the beam, which is wrapped in yellow caution tape, there is a mysterious wooden box…At first […]

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This futon comes from India Street in Greenpoint via Miss Heather. We’re taken by its proximity to the G Train.

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Depending on one’s point of view the dog named Miss Mordred in Greenpoint is either very cute or quite grotesque. It all depends on how one feels about chihuahuas and, specifically, ones wearing body length apparel that resembles a hoodie with a faux hawk. So, it’s either awwwwhhhh or eeewwwhhhh.–New York Shitty

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Our Roving Correspondent returns to Greenpoint for this image, which she titled “Dali’s Bike” and it certainly is. It is melting on Russell Street in Greenpoint.

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The wonderful Kevin Walsh, the force behind the Forgotten NY website and book, will be at Word Books in Greenpoint on Thursday (3/6) at 7:30PM. He will be doing a presentation followed by a Q&A. Word Books is at 126 Franklin Street. The event is free, of course.–New York Shitty

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It’s not a Street Sofa, but a street chair and this image from Miss Heather presents quite a number of interesting elements. Our particular favorite is the bottle of Zywiec beer beside it.

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Haven’t read a nice, long feature story on the Exxon-Mobil Oil Spill in Greenpoint recently? Want a refresher on the “55-acre plume of oil floating on top of groundwater 30-40 feet underground” and how people “have been living with the spill for more than 50 years, enduring vapors seeping into some basements and wafting through […]

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“Booklyn is an artist-run non-profit organization. Established in 1999, it facilities are open to the public Tuesday evenings from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. The first Tuesday of each month is dedicated to ‘Open Salon Night’…Following Tuesdays are dedicated to workshops where you can get hands on experience with the various aspects of bookmaking…”–New York Shitty

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Snow adds an element of beauty and meaning to everything, including street furniture. This is the “Huron Street Comfy Chair.” It was captured by our Greenpoint Correspondent while she was out photographing Greenpoint blanketed in snow yesterday. Even the hanging sneakers look nicer.

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Someone gone through a lot of trouble to keep this thing, on Greenpoint Avenue between West and Franklin, together. For that we give them an A for effort. It goes without saying that this series of images comes from our Greenpoint correspondent.

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This comes from Eckford and Manhattan Avenue via our Greenpoint Correspondent who said, “Perhaps they could relocated this one way sign to one of the many locations where said signs are defective.” Or, you know, fix the others.

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This specimen comes to us from Greenpoint, where the indefatigable Miss Heather has been coming across a large number of wonderful street couches. It is from Newton Street.

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What sort of park is built with a twelve-foot wall on the East River that could block views of Manhattan? Well, it’s a possibility at the weird temporary park that is going in at the foot of India Street in Greenpoint. “They are going to pave over with colored concrete, remove the chain link fence […]

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It’s hard to say whether the B61 bus or the G Train generate more discontent, except that we think the G generally gets more space on blogs and in print. Yet, the B61–which runs from Red Hook to Long Island City, via Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg–does manage to drive the people that depend on it […]

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This long and once proud sofa comes from Greenpoint and is, as one would expect, from our Greenpoint Correspondent. Miss Heather found it on Franklin Street.

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“Speaking of shit that stinks,” nothing smells worse that finding a photo that you took and annotated on a rotten, thieving website that even has tosses their own watermark on your (annotated) photo.”Unfettered by such vagaries as copyright law or intellectual property they saw fit to neither link to the site where this photograph came […]

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If you know Greenpoint, then you know that this building seems to have been under construction forever. It has been. The original application for a permit was filed in 2001, although work hasn’t been underway quite that long. It’s been hit with a variety of Stop Work Orders (most recently for lacking at standpipe, which […]

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Just in from our Greenpoint Correspondent and in time for the day of love: A Valentine’s Loveseat from Kent Street in Greenpoint.

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