Greenpoint

As a native Brooklynite (I carefully try to excise any Brooklynishness from my accent, since I’ve always wondered what New Yorkers in general have against a final “r” in words…

Continued from Part 1 In April 2017, Mitch Waxman, a member of the Newtown Creek Alliance, conducted one of his Newtown Creek tours, his most comprehensive, which he called “Creek-a-Thon”. It…

OAK Street is just one of Greenpoint’s “alphabetical” streets, that begin with Ash and end with Quay; the L street’s place is taken by Greenpoint Avenue and the P by…

I never tire of Greenpoint, and each time I am there, there is something “new” I haven’t seen before, or one more layer of the onion to peel off. Much…

THE Beddi-Makky Art Foundry, 227 India Street east of McGuinness Boulevard, is a bronze monument foundry established in Greenpoint in the 1940s when two immigrant Hungarian foundryworkers named Bedi and…

Here is a second entry in The Forgotten NY Overlooked Series, in which I revive old pages that somehow were not converted when FNY changed layouts and hosting services in…

THERE are a number of buildings around town, a few dozen at least, in which I can honestly say I would like to live, at least temporarily. In fact there…

I may do a new series in Forgotten New York pointing out the humble beginnings of major, well-known NYC streets. Today, I’m showing you the east end of the combined…

I’m not sure, but sometimes things lose just a bit of their charm when they get landmarked. Bomelstein’s Clock, #753 Manhattan Avenue between Meserole and Norman was rusty, its paint…

My affinity for stolid brick buildings, whether factories or dwellings, has been stated repeatedly in FNY. Greenpoint is one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods that is changing rapidly, with glassy residential…

I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was from Hunters Point through Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Ridgewood and Glendale…

HERE’S a classic linoleum or vinyl sidewalk sign at #251 Nassau Avenue at Kingsland Avenue in eastern Greenpoint in one of my favorite color combinations, beige and green, with “Buckley’s”…