Happy First Day of Halloween
East & Creek, the Greenpoint newsletter | No. 39
What’s up in Greenpoint?
Welcome to Warsaw, jerko: “A large-scale sculpture of the artist KAWS’ ‘Companion’ figures is being installed at ‘The Greenpoint’ residential development near the India Street waterfront. . . KAWS is the moniker of Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, who over the past decade has achieved global recognition for his creations that often reinterpret pop culture icons like Mickey Mouse and Cookie Monster.” (Greenpointers)
Meanwhile at the ferry landing — and others like it throughout the city: “Mayor de Blasio’s heavily-subsidized NYC Ferry service is primarily used by white, upper-middle class people, ridership data released Tuesday shows. The city’s nonprofit Economic Development Corporation, which runs the ferry network with private cruise company Hornblower, conducted a survey of more than 5,400 riders over a two-week period in May and June. The agency’s analysts determined that 64% of the boat users are white, and that riders’ median annual income falls in the $75,000 to $99,000 range.” (Daily News’ Ellen Moynihan and Clayton Guse)
In local building news: Permits have been filed with the Dept. of Buildings for an eight-story, 24-unit apartment building at 173 McGuinness — with no parking planned for the building, *prayer-hands emoji*. Permits have also been filed for a four-story, seven-unit building at 46 Diamond St. And the owners of a one-story building at 494 Manhattan Ave have filed permits for demolition.
What’s one of Greenpoint’s state senators is up to: “Freshman state Sen. Julia Salazar teamed up with the Teamsters [last] week. The Brooklyn Dem crashed an in-house meeting Wednesday called by the head of fine art moving company UOVO to try and talk employees out of joining a union, according to the president of Teamsters Local 814. . . The workers got some socialist support in the form of Salazar, who crashed the meeting with Local 814 President Jason Ide to demand the company stop union-busting.” (Daily News’ Anna Sanders)
And then there’s this: Extremely satisfying creek content.
Thus concludes this October 1, 2019 edition of East & Creek, the twice-weekly newsletter about Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Read the full archives here.
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See ya around the neighb,
Jon Hanrahan
Author, e&c