Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Lovers of Karl Fischer are sure to especially enjoy the latest from Hot Karl, which is planned for India Street and Franklin, across the street from the Astral. A reader asks: “Any idea what Jetsons-looking, maxed-out bit of Narcotecture this ass clown is looking to unleash upon me and mine?” It’s a 12-story “vertical addition” […]

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The inner part of a sofa bed, as find by our Greenpoint Correspondent on Manhattan Avenue, who write that the trash bags on either side are like end tables.

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“Today at 6:30 p.m. G.W.A.P.P. will be conducting a general information session at the Pencil Factory regarding the park slated for the western terminus of India Street. Stephanie Thayer of the Open Space Alliance will give a general overview of the project (among other things, I have heard affordable housing is a component)…” The meeting […]

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A reader sent us some photos a weird house on Orient Avenue that is not too far from an odd condo project being marketed as Olive Park. It’s ostensibly a far corner of Williamsburg, though some people consider it a far corner of Greenpoint. Here is the description that came with the photos: A guy […]

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The image of this street couch, which comes from Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, was passed along to us by our Greenpoint correspondent. It also came with some dialog: Miss H: That sure is a nice couch.Man: Yeah.Miss H: I wouldn’t take that home if I were you, it might have bedbugs.Man: Really? Can they get […]

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It looks like the residents of the Greenpoint building called Loftology, which is the building on Driggs Avenue on the left in the top photo, will be losing the views from the back of their building before too long. (The building with the exterior wood veneer is called the Manhattan Park Condos. It was designed […]

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It’s hard to know for certain where the chickens on the streets of Greenpoint come from, but most likely, they are coming from a chicken-related business in a building near the site of the burned Greenpoint Terminal Market. No matter. What can someone do when one of our feathered friends is being menaced by some […]

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Here’s a fun email circulating via a Community Board 1 mailing list on Yahoo that gets at the subject of “after hours work” in a major way: Early this morning ( 2/2/08 ) at around 2 a.m. we were awakened by pile driving. The pile driving continued for over an hour. Our apartment is on […]

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What better piece of street furniture to offer up on this Superbowl Sunday than this recliner that was sent our way by our Greenpoint Correspondent. It comes from Kingsland Avenue in Greenpoint. Sadly, there was no TV on the sidewalk with it.

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It’s fair to say that Greenpoint residents aren’t fans of the big sewage treatment plant in their midst that leaves the neighborhood smelling like a toilet at times. The stench will eventually dissipate when the huge project at the treatment is done, but for now, it remains fragrant. “As a community, we are literally crapped […]

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This sofa comes from the streets of Greenpoint. It was titled “Mary D’s Couch for Seniors” after the residence behind which it was photographed by our Greenpoint Correspondent.

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The St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation will be hosting a candle light vigil and sleep out demonstration at 202 Franklin Street tomorrow, January 30th starting at 6:30 p.m. For those of you who are not in the know 202 Franklin Street caught fire nearly four years ago. Despite numerous demonstrations, making light of their plight […]

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Okay, it’s not a street couch per se. But this very comfy chair, a photo of which came from our Greenpoint Correspondent last night, is so big that it’s almost a couch. It comes to us from McGuinness Boulevard, just off the Pulaski Bridge and across the street from the Casanova Italian Restaurant.

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What do you get at the Greenpoint Coffee House at 4PM on a frigid Sunday afternoon while people are eating brunch? Waffles, of course. And an excellent photo op of a guy wearing a “Brunch is for Assholes” t-shirt, of course.–New York Shitty

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We have no idea what is going to end up at the corner of Nassau Avenue and Guernsey Street in Greenpoint where the building in the photo above stands. What we do know is that we checked on its status after we noticed that the windows had been newly boarded up, and found that 24 […]

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This is not the first time we’ve posted a photo of the site we like to called Greenpoint’s Crater Lake, but we passed by the site the other day and found that the only things that have changed are that the banks of the crater have eroded a bit and that ice was forming on […]

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This plump specimen comes to us from Franklin Street in Greenpoint. It looks like two pieces of a sectional.

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Nothing to do tonight? Then consider checking out a meeting on “Newtown Creek odor issues.” City Dept. of Environmental Protection Commissioner Emily Lloyd will be at the Polish Slavic Center at 177 Kent Street in Greenpoint from 7PM-8PM. The center has a cafeteria too.–New York Shitty

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Of course they don’t. They wait for something to die. Props to Miss Heather, with whom we were doing some Greenpoint fieldwork on Sunday, for spotting this one. She posted a photo of it yesterday and–because we find it so compelling–we’re posting it today. This jewel comes from Newell Street. A detail of the house […]

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Things have gotten a little bent out of shape at Norman Avenue and Dobbin Street in Greenpoint. This photo, of course, comes to us because of the sharp eyes of our Greenpoint Correspondent.

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This is a conceptual plan for “Transmitter Park,” which is one of the parks that was discussed at the Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning meeting the other night at Warsaw. The rendering has been around for a while, but New York Shitty reports that work on the park, which would be on the […]

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This sign isn’t a sign. It’s a bit of a display station for street art and stickers and the like. It is at Manhattan Avenue and Ash Street, which is located near the end of Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint near Newtown Creek. It goes without saying that the image comes from the busy camera of […]

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There’s going to be a “Town Hall” meeting sponsored by the Greenpoint Waterfront Assocation for Parks & Planning at Warsaw on January 17 at 7PM (261 Driggs Ave.). The email we got says: The neighborhoods of Greenpoint/Williamsburg are at a point of crisis and opportunity. Crisis because rampant development threatens what little open space and […]

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