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The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.