Greenpoint

Budin Will Bring Nordic Coffee and Wares to Greenpoint This Fall

Crystal Pei acknowledges there's been a Nordic invasion in New York City, but she says most of those spots are of the same vein: "Everything Scandinavian here is minimalist Swedish and Danish," she explains.

Greenpoint's Lobster Joint Plants Flag On Houston Street

Greenpoint's Lobster Joint has officially commandeered 201 Houston St., the former home of semi-outdoor Lina Frey. Bob Levitt, one of the owners, said they should be up and running in the middle of December.

BAND BEYOND

Head into the urban wilderness with Woods

Potlikker: The Queen of Quirk Comes to Williamsburg

A chef returns, just as unpredictable as before

'Pneumatic Records Presents' w/ Sycorax+Professor Genius

No. 7 Sub Comes Up With More Crazy Heroes for Its Greenpoint Location

The innards of the shrimp-pork sausage submarine -- sandwiches don't get moister than this. There's an unspoken rivalry between places that offer doctrinaire versions of dishes and those that choose to be wildly innovative. Is it a better business model to give the public exactly what they're used ... More >>

There's a Lot of Trash in Williamsburg and Greenpoint

​Two neighborhoods in New York City are trashier than ever, at least, in a manner of speaking. According to a new study released today, there are more garbage trucks in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where 19 of New York City's 58 waste transfer stations are located -- "362 trucks per hour at si ... More >>

Greenpoint Raccoons Are Going Next Level

New York Shitty​Before occupying Wall Street, before bedbugs, before the summer of the rat, there were vicious raccoons, who would just as soon swing into your garden and destroy it, or come in through your window (and, somehow, manage to decapitate themselves in a suicide mission within your ... More >>

CITY OF LIGHTS

Paris brings its glitter to Brooklyn

This Week in the Voice: Anatomy of a Bike Accident, Plus Kenny Chesney and Beyoncé

​This week in the Voice, out today: Camille Dodero explores the fallout from a bike accident in Greenpoint that happened in October. A Brooklyn couple, James Paz and Michelle Matson, were hit by a car on McGuiness Boulevard, and Michelle was severely injured. They've learned that if you get in ... More >>

Williamsburg and Greenpoint: More Druggy, or Just More Drug Busts?

via i_follow/Flickr​In the midst of all the Osama Bin Laden news there's a bit in the New York Post about "hipster communities" in Williamsburg and Greenpoint that are either partying too hard, or are partying just the same as they've always been partying but getting busted more, depending on ... More >>

Williamsburg Ponders a Liquor License Moratorium While the LES Ponders Drunk Minors

​That liquor license moratorium that Community Board 1 voted to impose on Williamsburg and Greenpoint may have hit a bit of a roadblock.

Ovenly Delivers Better Bar Snacks, Gets the Food Curated Treatment

Ovenly's spicy bacon caramel corn​Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin of Ovenly, a creative kitchen in Greenpoint, that specializes in bar snacks and desserts, reveal the greatest joy of running such a business: the drunken emails at 3 a.m. from fans proclaiming their love for the bacon fat-washed ... More >>

Calexico Carne Asada Will Go Al Fresco in Carroll Park

​Having conquered Greenpoint, Red Hook, the streets of Soho and Williamsburg, and Brooklyn Bridge Park, Calexico is expanding its kingdom to Carroll Park.

Greenpoint Truck Thinks It's a 7 Train

ScoutingNY​This is sort of great. In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, there is a truck that has been disguised as a 7 train. Finder of cool things on our city streets ScoutingNY discovered it recently while driving home. A commenter on his site points out that it was done by graffiti crew from Queens cal ... More >>

GO TO CHURCH

Art in a convent

Portrait of an Immigrant Detainee as a Young Man

Meet New York bike-scene fixture Pablo Airaldi. He made friends with everyone—except ICE officials.

Greenpoint's New Calexico Carne Asada

​Yikes! The bland guacamole tastes mainly of oregano, and it's expensive, too. Few food carts have been ballyhooed as much as Calexico's, which show up on a regular basis in Soho, Williamsburg, and Brookyn Bridge Park. In fact, they won a Vendy award in 2008. Inevitably, these purveyors of Ca ... More >>

Tales From a Greenpoint Christmas Tree Vendor

Charlie Poekel at his Greenpoint tree stand​Selling Christmas trees in New York City seems like a hard job. It's cold, for one. New Yorkers have that "reputation" for being tough customers and not always the friendliest, not to mention bargain hunters par excellence. And sitting outside a tree ... More >>

Greenpoint/North Williamsburg Ferry Is Still Happening, Soon

rendering via Brooklyn365​Greenpoint/North Williamsburgers, please issue a collective hoorah for no longer having to rely on the unreliable G. The "hipster ferry" that's been bandied about for a while is going to happen as soon as May 2011, as reported previously. The Metropolitan Waterfront A ... More >>

Greenpoint Club Coco66 Is Taking The Week Off From Doing Shows To "Become A Better Venue With More Space For People"

Yesterday, a manager at the beleaguered Greenpoint club Coco66 promised us that despite a police raid on Friday that momentarily closed the venue, they were reopening at regular capacity this week--"we didn't have to close at all," they told us. But this morning, we noticed that every show booked ... More >>

Behold: Take Out, a Waitress Freak-Out Fantasy, Shot at Paulie Gee's

The latest in food-related revenge fantasies comes courtesy of Take Out, a short film about a waitress who's driven to violence by her awful boss and customers. It's hilarious, in part because it was filmed at Paulie Gee's, a place whose eponymous owner is possibly the nicest man in Greenpoint. If ... More >>

Phosphorescent Are the Luckiest Band in All Of Brooklyn: Stolen Van, Equipment Recovered By Police

​After having their van and the $40,000 worth of equipment it contained stolen in Greenpoint last Thursday night, and subsequently writing a Double Rainbow-inspired series of verses by way of thanking those who moved to help them in their time of need, Phosphorescent report today that the cops ... More >>

Greenpoint Food Market Shutters in the Face of Looming Health Department Visitation

Copyright Greenpoint Food MarketAnarchy in a Jar's boisterous jams are no longer available in a Greenpoint church basement.​Well, so much for the can-do DIY spirit of homemade empanadas and pastel-hued cake balls: weeks after it received a glowing write-up in the Times, the 10-month-old Greenp ... More >>

Big Brother Has Eyes on Greenpoint Food Market Vendors

vimiramontes/FlickrSo long, homemade baked goods.​It looks like the health department is about to start raining on Greenpoint's handmade food parade. The city says that vendors at the monthly Greenpoint Food Market will be under close scrutiny following a piece in The New York Times about the ... More >>

Colombian Bread Puddding at Cafe Colombia Bakery

​If you have ever thought to yourself, "I wish this bread pudding was made with condensed milk and a dash of sherry and tasted like a cross between flan and pumpkin pie" than Colombian pudin de pan is for you.

Here's a Cool Video Portrait of Greenpoint's Lomzynianka

Lomzynianka Final from elizabeth leitzell on Vimeo. Food Curated's Liza de Guia isn't the local food scene's only documentarian: our intrepid freelancer Keith Wagstaff and his friend Elizabeth Leitzell have collaborated on a nifty photo and video essay about Lomzynianka, a Polish restaurant in Gree ... More >>

Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint This Sunday

Robert SietsemaPies 'n' Thighs will represent this Sunday.​Williamsburg and Greenpoint will promote neighborhood culinary pride and try to raise money for a local community center this Sunday, May 16, with Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint, a grazing event featuring many of the neighborhoods' rest ... More >>

Hey, Anybody Want to Buy Studio B?

Photo via sarahheiman's photostream​For $2,500,000, you too can own the Greenpoint venue that was shut down over and over and over again by its neighbors, Eater reports. That number represents a $450,000 discount over the original asking price, includes "three bars, a dance floor, and four bat ... More >>

New York Happy Hours, All Around the Clock

20 Happy Hours for every legal drinking hour in town!

Artisanal Food Brand, Children's Clothing Store, or Sex Shop?

simplyla/FlickrThese could just as easily be cupcakes.​We like winsome foods painstakingly handcrafted in somebody's fifth-story walk-up as much as the next person, but in scanning the list of vendors participating in the Greenpoint Food Market on April 10, one could reasonably assume that man ... More >>

G Train Weekend Closings Debut with Rain, Shuttle Buses

​The G train began four straight weekends of suspended service, from 10:30 pm Fridays to 5 a.m. Mondays, last Friday. On this inaugural weekend, use of other trains was recommended, and shuttle buses were provided. This is from a report from Greenpointers: "When the shuttle finally arrived ... More >>

That Yummy Fur Show Tonight Just Got Moved to the Market Hotel

​More info on the switch here. Not a good sign for 171 Lombardy, the sporadically active (and awesomely Google Street Mapped) Greenpoint venue that was originally set to host. Still--Yummy Fur!

The Yummy Fur Are Reuniting, Playing Newish DIY Venue 171 Lombardy

​The Yummy Fur, the delightfully skuzzy Glasgow indie-pop band, didn't make it across the ocean in their initial 1992-1999 run; college radio love never quite did buy anybody a plane ticket, either then or now. But being in Franz Ferdinand definitely is good for a transatlantic flight, and so ... More >>

Incredibly Cheap Eats: Dollar Empanadas at M & W Laundromat in Greenpoint

​You could also toss one into the washing machine in lieu of a Bounce. A laundromat seems like a very weird place to eat anything but peanut butter crackerss. snack chips, or cheap candy bars.

Jerry Fuchs Memorial This Thursday

​Thursday, 7pm-11pm at Enid's in Greenpoint. More info and a collection of sad-making photos at the Washington City Paper.

Stumptown Red Hook Roastery Opens

​ ​ Stumptown is all over New York these days -- even our little far-north-Greenpoint neighborhood has been penetrated -- and this weekend they held a little gala to celebrate the opening of their Red Hook Roastery in a converted artist's space at Commerce Street and Van Brunt, equippe ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Exclusive Video Premiere For Renminbi's "Set Up"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Recently, we've given you Liturgy's "Ecstatic Rite," the video for Motel Motel's "Coffee," and Werewolves' "Dora Gerson." ​ Greenpoint duo Renminbi play a decidedly blustery, blown-out version of t ... More >>

Organ Recital: Anticuchos in McCarren Park

​McCarren Park may be the very last place where you'd expect to find organs, yet, last Sunday I did. The occasion was the summer picnic of a Greenpoint Peruvian soccer club, attended by perhaps 300 souls, who sat on folding chairs under the London plane trees as bad weather threatened. Undeter ... More >>

NORTH BY NORTHSIDE

Brooklyn's block party needs badges, too

ALL THE RAGE

Suits on Wall Street can use a little pillow love

Magic Johnson's Greenpoint Luxury Condo Bankrupt

As the blind man cries in Los Olvidados, "One less! One less!" Magic Johnson's Viridian condoplex in Greenpoint opened its doors to buyers optimistically with a "Buy Low -- Live Large Party." But even before it debuted, people were skeptical: Miss Heather laughed at it ("Who wouldn't want to pa ... More >>

Valentine's Day Love Your Lane Ride + After-Party

LITTLE AMBITION

World domination, the second attempt

This Week in Boozing

It's Thursday. It's practically the weekend. It's time to start boozing. Here's the latest news to help you prepare for imbibing:Sasha Petraske's absinthe bar, White Star (21 Essex Street), will now deign to serve classic cocktails .[Urban Daddy]If you're the sort of person who cares about drinking ... More >>

5 Banks Robbed Yesterday in 4 Boroughs

Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

Lower Rents Again Predicted; Ridiculous Rents Actually Offered

There Goes the Neighborhood

Another Old Bar Goes Down: The Kingsland Tavern

Waste Deep in the Big Muddy: Reps Seek Superfund for Newtown Creek