This gorgeous sunflower is all the more so because it comes from Banker Street in Greenpoint, which can be a pretty desolate place in terms of flora, but here it is.

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This is 53 Java Street. Followers of architect Robert Scarano might recall the odd bit of drama last September when a truck back into a neighboring house and did a bit of damage to it while apparently working in violation of a Stop Work Order. Back then we had the following report: …As the fine […]

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After much urging, the federal Environmental Protection Agency is going to test some site along Newtwon Creek to see if they should be included in the Superfund program. The designation would theoretically speed some clean-ups along the creek which is both the site of the Exxon-Mobil Oil Spill and has a number of terribly polluted […]

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What better way to have fun on a warm August Sunday evening than taking a pleasure cruise up Newtown Creek on a tugboat? For the news angle on one of our favorite bodies of water, check out CityRoom, which is reporting the EPA will test around the creek to see if it’s horrendous enough to […]

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“Michel Gondry may have just moved to Orient Avenue in Brooklyn, but certainly not to #59, which was briefly in the limelight when it appeared as Kate Winslet’s apartment in his film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” The place is trashed, as in really trashed.–Gothamist

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Semi Precious Weapons are being evicted from their Greenpoint loft. This is so that the sewage treatment plant next door can use it for office space. It is too f*cking rock and roll for words.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Our friend Miss Heather, who is among other things, the Queen of the Street Couch, captured this beauty on Green Street (and there are more to come this week). She calls it “The Alistair Cooke of Couches on Green Street.” Got to love the plumbing truck behind it too.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This gorgeous white sofa on Greenpoint Avenue comes from Miss Heather who writes: “The good thing about the summer (and a raging bedbug epidemic) is there are plenty of couches for the picking in Greenpoint.” We have several in reserve.

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[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool] Remember the Greenpoint Terminal Market? We do. It was one of our favorite places to shoot pics in Greenpoint and could have been quite something had it been landmarked and restored. It was not to be, however. A couple of weeks after we started GL, it went up in […]

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There’s a new North Brooklyn blog from the group NAG, called Neighborhood Watch that has a lot of potential to put some important community information out there. The blog writes:<blockquote>We hope that this blog will serve as a resource to the North Brooklyn community for updates on the neighborhood, useful information for you to deal […]

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Studio B is shut down for now, in no small part due to neighborhood advocacy. “The very day the Public Safety Committee decided that Studio B did not merit a recommendation for a Cabaret license, the Department of Buildings disapproved their Place of Assembly application. For both floors. No worries, I am certain former City […]

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[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool] This sign comes from Guernsey Street in Greenpoint and it appears that someone (perhaps even the original sign maker) may have tried to correct the spelling from “fance” to “fence.”

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From Greenpoint, we have the Peace and Love Couch to kick off what is shaping up to be a superb week of street couches. This one comes from Banker Street and Nassau Avenue and was actually part of a street art display, but is, nonetheless, primo street seating.

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We found this yesterday around Bedford Avenue and Lorimer Streets. Morely went missing on Thursday night.

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The Studio B issue went before Commmunity Board 1’s Public Safety Committee last night, which voted against the club’s cabaret license application. (It has been operating without in.) The vote was 2-1 with one abstention. (The one vote in favor did so with conditions.) The Chair of the committee, Mieszko Kalita, cast the deciding vote […]

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[Photo courtesy of rutila/Gl Flickr Pool] It’s the Greenpoint Finest Deli as submitted to our GL Flickr Pool by rutila.

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Those new bike lanes on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint are proving popular for many purposes and uses, including–you guessed it–parking. A GL reader who was using the bike lanes for bicycling, sent us a big series of photos featuring people who are using the bike lane for parking. He writes: “All of these pics were […]

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The new bike routes through Greenpoint are not universally love, in part, because the part of the route on Manhattan Avenue strikes a bunch of people as being dangerous. “I’m not concerned with the current Project Route but rather the Future Planned Route. Those little red dots that appear to be heading down Manhattan Avenue […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This specimen comes from Box Street in Greenpoint. Miss Heather, who located and photographed it, calls it “Shabby Chic on Box Street.

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[Image courtesy of The Real Estate] One of the most interesting tidbits in yesterday’s Brooklyn Market Report wasn’t that prices are still holding steady, but that sales in Brooklyn fell by nearly 44 percent over the previous years. There were declines in all areas. In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, for instance, the annual drop was close […]

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[Photo courtesy of chicapoquita/flickr] Anyone who knows Greenpoint knows the site and, uh, smell of the Newtown Creek Waste Water Treatment Facility, which collects crap from far and wide. It has many distinctions, not the least of which is its long standing dysfunction and the epic and ongoing $2.3 billion upgrade that it is getting. […]

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Here’s a worthwhile activity coming up in Greenpoint on July 12 that came our way that involves taking care of some of the neighborhood’s street trees: Get Green In Greenpoint! Be a part of our street tree care community event: – learn about the MillionTrees Initiative – participate in street tree care on Manhattan Ave. […]

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This clip juxtaposes scenes from the Australian home of Green Point Wines and Greenpoint, Brooklyn (what a difference the space between Green and Point makes). The info for the vid says brings the cool, bright style they’re famous for to Greenpoint Brooklyn for the McCarren Pool Film Series starting June 2008.”

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The Greenpoint Gazette has finally gotten a website. The paper has been around since 1973 doing local coverage. “This is a definite great addition to the web for Greenpointers!”–Greenpointers

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The political version of pork is always interesting to watch. “The Department of Housing Preservation and Development put aside $2 million to counsel and protect tenants, and said it would hire local groups to do the work. A coalition of seven nonprofits from the neighborhood applied as one in a bid to handle the whole […]

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