[All photos courtesy of Miss Heather] The horror show you are looking at is 126 India Street in Greenpoint and could serve as a textbook example of developer blight that is increasingly out of control in some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the early 2000s development boom. You know, before Mr. Housing Bubble’s funeral. […]

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Mark today on your calendar as an important day in Brooklyn real estate history: The day on which the North Brookyn real estate bloodbath began. (Somebody cue up REM doing “It’s The End of the World” but do not add the words, “and I feel fine.”) Crain’s reports that Magic Johnson’s Viridian condo at 110 […]

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Do you care about public art in North Brooklyn? No? Well, skip this item. If the answer is “yes,” then read on, friends. This dropped into our inbox from Council Member David Yassky and the Open Space Alliance which are going to be presenting something called Public Art Opportunities: Inaugural Meeting of the North Brooklyn […]

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The Parks Department and Rogers Marvel Architects presented an update on McCarren Pool to Community Board 1 last night. We have the renderings that were shown and also a report from Mikki Halpin of PoolAid of her impressions of the meeting. This is an excerpt of the email she sent out: At the CB1 meeting […]

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[Photo courtesy of rutila/GL Flickr Pool] Of course, it’s the Nassau Avenue stop of the G Train in Greenpoint.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] All we can say is Thank God this couch on India Street in Greepoint was wrapped to protect it from the elements the other day.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] We think the key word here is “all,” but in any case this wall wisdom from Freeman Street in Greenpoint is part of an excellent photoset from Miss Heather shot during yesterday’s snow/slush.

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There’s a ULURP and Waterfront Committee Meeting meet together tonight at 6:30PM at The Lady of the Snow Society facility, 410 Graham Avenue (between Withers Street and Jackson Street). On the agenda: 1.) Item heard at the Public Hearing – CITY PLANNING – WATERFRONT TEXT AMENDMENT (N090239 ZRY) – The Department of City Planning (DCP) […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Yes, we know. This is clearly not a couch or a sofa. It is a chair, making it street furniture. What we like about this speciment from Diamond Street in Greenpoint is the beer on the chair. Looks like a Corona. No lime.

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We knew this crap had to be around, and we’ve certainly dealt with the topic of mommy and daddy bringing the little ones into the bar while they get shitfaced and whether this is appropriate. But we just couldn’t help notice this item and it isn’t even from Park Fucking Slope, friends. It’s from Greenpoint. […]

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There is some drama and/or intrigue to report from Community Board 1, the always interesting body that covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint and deals with some very contentious issues. One of the most contentious recent ones is the status of bike lanes in the neighborhood and, in particular, those on Kent Avenue running through the Hasidic […]

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[Photo courtesy Miss Heather] There is something that captivates us about this photo of the weird sludge tank in Greenpoint in the snow. It is part of an incredible photoset of the Winter Wonderland of Greenpoint put together by Miss Heather. Check it out cause it’s beautiful

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[Click to enlarge] Perhaps you remember the Meeker Avenue Plume. It even got some PR in the New York Times last week, leading Curbed to call it the “Toxic Death Cloud.” Well, there’s a meeting about it coming up for residents in January 14 at 6PM. It is a hazard to both long-term residents and […]

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[Photo courtesy of New York Shitty] This beauty and pubic safety hazard is 61 Huron Street in Greenpoint. It will ultimately end up (perhaps) as a six story building with 15 units. Curiously, the original application on the property was submitted by the King of Brooklyn Architects Robert Scarano in 2000. The current architect is […]

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Yesterday, we posted two big photo galleries on Curbed of the work underway at McCarren Pool. One was of the new skatepark that is being built on the Bayard Street side of the property. The other was of the renovation work underway on the arch. The later is pictured above. The former is pictured below. […]

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For the record, it is a Greenpoint santa.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Okay, it’s just some smart asses around Greenpoint that call the giant digester eggs at the Wastewater Treatment Plant the “shit tits.” Most other people, who are unfamiliar with the Great Greenpoint Megalopolis just say “What is that fucking thing?” and other simply don’t notice the plant but do notice […]

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We will avoid the temptation that to say that this makes Rudolph a hipster reindeer because that would be lame, but he’s only a block from Enid’s.

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Attention Greenpoint Doctors Immediate Care, you might want to tend to your little billboard on Lorimer Street. Maybe.

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There will be a meeting tomorrow Monday (12/8) at 7pm for Friends of the Bushwick Inlet Park at the Greenpoint Reformed Church (136 Milton St. b/w Manhattan & Franklin Aves) to discuss the (promised, maybe, someday) Bushwick Inlet Park. The 28-acre park will run between Kent Avenue and the East River, starting at N. 9th […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This Santa and friends comes from Driggs Avenue in Greenpoint. Merry. Merry.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] It would be hard to get any more seasonally appropriate than this sofa on the streets of Greenpoint. Happy Holidays.

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] Here’s an aerial view of Greenpoint in 1929, looking south toward Williamsburg.

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Tonight (12/4) from 7pm-8pm, the NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) Organizing Meeting will be held at the Holy Ghost Church Hall Basement, 160 North 5th Street (between Bedford and Driggs) in Williamsburg. Old and new residents in Williamsburg and Greenpoint have more in common than separates us. We all care about improving our quality […]

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[Photo courtesy of mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] Yes, ominous is one way to describe this awesome pic of the Greenpoint sky.

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