Posts with tag Greenpoint

There doesn't seem to be anything special about the dilapidated warehouses pictured above, but a New York City sign marks them as a historic district. Oops ... wrong corner. According to DNAinfo.com, the city made a mistake when replacing old street signs in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint. Instead of marking... Continue Reading »

OK, kids. Get out your pencils and show your work: When something new in a former industrial area costs less than half of something old in a classic neighborhood, will lots of people buy it? The Pencil Factory, so named because it used to be a pencil factory, consists of 93 one-bedroom (starting at $372,000) and... Continue Reading »