Group Tightener records’ Jamie Granato and Sam Hockley-Smith are not native New Yorkers, but to see them now, you’d never know it. Hockley-Smith spends his days as an editor of The Fader, while Granato fills his days, like so many other creative people in this city, with all things freelance. Read more »
Earlier this month, New York Shitty posted several photos of passed out vagabonds snoozing all over McCarren Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. But they’re not just an eyesore. They smell and poop all over the place, even near the children’s playground. Read more »
Just like the Lower East Side, it appears that people are also getting drunk and high in Williamsburg and Greenpoint according to a shocking investigation by the New York Post. The tabloid, citing police statistics, says drug arrests have soared in both neighborhoods and Community Board 1 is reportedly considering a “moratorium on new liquor licenses in their area.” Aren’t they always doing that?
October 2nd, New York will join like-minded cities of Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg to host the first ever NYC Nuit Blanche for a late night of “site-specific installations, projections, interactive media and street performances.” Expect some LED glass orbs, digital graffiti, interactive drums, small explosions and vegetables at, around and over the Greenpoint Terminal Market.
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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