Greenpoint Photo Du Jour: Keep Calm
Filed under: 11222, Class War, Gentrification, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
How do you know when your community is in the throes of a Gordon Gekkoesque real estate feeding frenzy? When you see shit like this. That’s how.
Spotted On India Street: The Best Of Times
Taken May 9, 2013.
Urban Artifact: Manhattan Avenue
For all your culinary and music-making needs…
Urban Fur: Manhattan Avenue
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Stuff That Makes Miss Heather Happy, Urban Fur
One never knows who he or she might meet while sojourning down Greenpoint’s main drag nowadays…
Greenpoint Photos Du Jour: Goodbye
Filed under: 11222, Crazy Cat Lady, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Stuff The Makes Heather Sad
It is with a heavy heart I relay that one of Manhattan Avenue’s most beloved citizens is no longer with us. As a woman I saw crying upon reading the above heartfelt eulogy clearly attests: she is missed by many.
H/T: to Greenpointers for breaking this distressing news.
Quicklinks: More Ado About Greenpoint Landing
Filed under: 11222, Class War, Gentrification, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, The Natives Are Getting Restless
You can read DNA.info’s take here (You, go Barbara Vetell!), Gothamist’s here and GWAPP’s (which includes a nice concise list of concerns) here. Do take time to give ’em all a read, Garden Spotters. This “city within a city” has some very severe consequences for our community.
Quicklink: Community Meeting Notes Regarding Greenpoint Landing & 77 Commercial Street
Filed under: 11222, Class War, Gentrification, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
Yours truly opted not to attend this convocation (one can only stomach so much of this stuff— seriously). However a writer at Greenpointers, Peter, has authored an excellent summary. Do take a moment to give it a read!
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: The Nature Walk
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Newtown Creek, Stuff That Makes Miss Heather Happy
Taken by MarcusOfBrooklyn.
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