There are no two ways about it, this street couch from Norman Avenue in Greenpoint is one of the most comfy looking we’ve ever seen. While the leather has clearly seen better days and one might freeze one’s ya ya’s off while hanging out on it right now, we simply love the red and blue […]

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It’s been a couple of weeks, but the Greenpoint Ten is back. Number Four has red toenails, wears a turtleneck argyle sweater and tends to dress like her best friend.–New York Shitty

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Our Greenpoint correspondent filed this photo of 1000 Manhattan Avenue, which is engaged in a brave fight with the forces of gravity, by night. The bracing that is helping to hold the building facade up has a certain something after dark. We do wonder how many people have discovered its presence the hard way, however.

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Some YouTube vids related to Greenpoint.

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Will SPLIT get its shit together? What is SPLIT, anyway? Well, whoever they are, they don’t give a, um, hoot about the illegal advertecture on the house at 72 Norman Avenue in Greenpoint.–New York Shitty

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Here is the beginning of a list of cool local places to shop in Greenpoint. If you want the Chandelier Earrings, then you’ve got to go to Brooklynski.–Greenpointers

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Every time we look at this building all we can see are those huge jutting balconies which seem ridiculously out of place on N. 9th Street in Williamsburg and on the building. We’ve been so busy contemplating those out-size bad boys that we failed to notice something that our Greenpoint Correspondent‘s sharp, sharp eye: the […]

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We don’t focus much on altered signs on private property, but some of them are too hard to pass up. Like this sprinkler sign on a desolate street on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint border. Nice.

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Too. Cute. For. Words. The “Queensboro Kitten” who was found wandering the 59th Street Bridge has been adopted. One look at his picture and there will be no doubt as to why.–New York Shitty

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Taken from Manhattan Avenue near Driggs, here’s a long shot of the decorations with Manhattan itself in the background. GL welcomes appropriately festive or interesting holiday shots from our readers. If you have a ‘Tis the Season shot, send it along to thegowanuslounge (at) gmail (dot) com. We’ll happily supply a photo credit, but the […]

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We’ve noted the alarming conditions at 1000 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint in the past, and check in with our old friend to see how the battle between gravity and building is coming along. While it would appear to be a standoff, in that 1000 Manhattan hasn’t collapsed yet, it remains one of the leading candidates […]

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This Brooklyn Santa comes from a store window on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. We’ll be feature Christmas themed photos between now and the end of the year and can’t get to every block in Brooklyn, so if you photograph a fetching store window or decorated house or decoration and you’d like to share with GL […]

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This sign, which isn’t a street sign at all, but a building sign, caught our eyes in Greenpoint. The fish and the water theme work well together.

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Ah, the joy that Greenpoint in general and Manhattan Avenue in particular are likely to bring through the holidays. Great store windows. Superb decorations. Interesting things tossed over the telephone wires.–New York Shitty

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There’s good news and bad news to report regarding 143 Huron Street, a development that has been fairly blatant in doing a lot of noisy and disruptive after-hours and weekend work. Yesterday, New York Shitty reported that workers were on the job until 9:30PM on the night before Thanksgiving and back at work at 9AM […]

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Is Greenpoint’s 143 Huron Street the construction site that most blatantly thumbs its nose at neighbors, almost daring a Department of Buildings visit to find noisy, illegal construction work? (A DOB visit, we might add, that never seems to come.) There are many development sites in Brooklyn that ignore the law and shine a spotlight […]

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On this holiday, we’re thinking about the bedbug infested neighborhood horror known as the Astral and its new myspace group as well as the good people building 143 Huron Street who were pounding on their building last night until after 9PM in blatant disregard for neighbors and laws. Sadly, the Department of Buildings doesn’t care […]

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We have seen many street couches, but all they were generally in one place or, at least, on the same block. Not this one. Our Greenpoint correspondent found this one in parts, several blocks from each other. We’ve provided a map with the photos because it just isn’t the same simply noting that one part […]

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Could fresh heavy equipment tracks at a property that has had two Stop Work Orders since August be evidence of recent work? It’s possible, although it’s possible the order was lifted in the last 18 hours and hasn’t shown up on the Department of Buildings website. Regardless, our Greenpoint Correspondent sent along these photos of […]

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It’s turning out to be an excellent week for street sofas after a long dry spell. From our Greenpoint correspondent comes what she calls the DIY Street Sofa. It is sort of sad to see such a homespun endeavor meet such an ignominious end, but it certainly looks nice sitting there.

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Everyone in Greenpoint knows the man who takes the Number Five spot as the rollout of the Greenpoint Ten continues. He is that “shirtless guy who lives on Franklin Street” or “Blow Torch Harry” to some.–New York Shitty

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If you want to help out people trying to help out Newtown Creek, then you might consider a benefit raffle tonight (11/8) at the Diamond bar in Greenpoint for the Newtown Creek Alliance. First Prize is 2 tickets to see Van Halen at Madison Square Garden on November 13. Second Prize is a $50 bar […]

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This wall is brought to you by our Greenpoint correspondent who produces one of the more consistently compelling and entertaining blogs in New York City. We must say this is the first time we’ve seen this twist on the the old eat it and die message on a wall.

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We won’t pretend to know a darn thing about construction safety (insert comment here about how we know nothing about a lot of things), but what we do know is that we can look at some things and have them strike us as unsafe. So it is with what is shown here. These photos were […]

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Yesterday was a good day for a couple of possible Brooklyn landmark districts. The Eberhard Faber District in Greenpoint was approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and appears headed for final approval by the City Council. Meanwhile, the hearing on the Dumbo Historic District “went astonishingly well,” according to the Historic Districts Council Newsstand blog. […]

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