Despite last month’s record setting rain, work finished on the India Street Mural Project, a 400-foot long wall showcasing the work of six artists in Greenpoint. The inaugural project of the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition will be officially unveiled with a celebration this Saturday, featuring music and food alongside the works by Ali Aschman, Eve Biddle & Joshua Frankel, Joshua Abram Howard, Robert Seng, SKEWVILLE and Chris Soria. The murals, photographed below, can be seen on India Street between West Street and the East River anytime until the building is demolished this fall. Read more »
As the Environmental Protection Agency decides whether to make Newtown Creek a Superfund cleanup site, a public health study is getting underway interview deadly illness afflicted neighbors of the polluted waterway. The study will focus on collecting narratives in Greenpoint, East Williamsburg and Maspeth towards a final report early next year. |NYDN|
The New York Post published a graffiti story in today’s paper that New York Shitty posted earlier in the week, simply confirming the Greenpoint-based blog’s observations and comments with an expert, then declaring the mysterious tags to be “Nazi cult graffiti.” |NYP|
Although no one’s solved the case of the mysterious reoccurring maple syrup smell in Manhattan, the source of a puzzling “tone” heard for over a year and a half in Greenpoint has been located. Described by The Brooklyn Paper as an “ethereal ring-a-ling,” a representative from the DEP admitted that the sound comes from the nearby, Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant’s PA system. This revelation should make it easier to solve an equally strange hum in Bay Ridge, also home to a sewage plant, and probably rules out the prevailing theories linking it to “trains, UFOs and breeding toadfish.” |TBP|
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