Feb 8, 2016 · Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has a surprising history of both bucolic green pastures and rancid oil patches. Before the 19th century this corner of Brooklyn was owned by only a few families with farms (and the slaves that tended them).

Greenpoint's East River waterfront holds the maritime history of the community. The buildings that formerly manufactured the ropes for the shipbuilding industry are still there. Long a site of shipbuilding, the neighborhood's dockyards were used to build the USS Monitor , the Union Army 's first ironclad fighting ship built during the American ...

HISTORY. Greenpoint was originally inhabited by Keskachauge (Keshaechqueren) Indians, a sub-tribe of the Lenape. Contemporary accounts describe it as remarkably verdant and beautiful, with Jack pine and oak forest, meadows, fresh water creeks and briny marshes. Water fowl and fish were abundant.

Jun 28, 2015 · “History of the City of Brooklyn” by Henry Reed Styles. This is an early book, published in 1869. It does a fine job of relating early Greenpoint history,especially the colonial and revolutionary period.

May 1, 2005 · KNOWN as the “garden spot of Brooklyn”, an eponym bestowed by the Brooklyn Eagle many years ago, Greenpoint is Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood, separated from Long Island City by Newtown Creek.

Located in the northern part of Brooklyn, Greenpoint has a rich history that dates back to the mid-17th century when the Dutch first settled in the area. Initially named "Greens Point" after a prominent landowner, the neighborhood was mostly farmland and …

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has a surprising history of both bucolic green pastures and rancid oil patches. Before the 19th century this corner of Brooklyn was owned by only a few families with farms (and the slaves that tended them).

Nov 7, 2022 · The History of Greenpoint. Before European colonization, the land that would become Greenpoint was part of the Lenape Nation. Control of the area was seized by the Dutch, and the first European to settle in the area was Dirck Volckertsen. Volckertsen began farming the land, and soon others followed him, cementing Greenpoint as a farming community.

Greenpoint Historic District is a national historic district in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It consists of 363 contributing commercial and residential buildings built between 1850 and 1900.