A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

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

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

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

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

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

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

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

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

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.

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.