Greenpoint Brooklyn has long held a reputation of being a working class and immigrant neighborhood, and it initially attracted families and workers with its abundance of factory jobs, heavy industry and manufacturing, shipbuilding, and longshoreman or dock work.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn first began to change significantly when entrepreneur Neziah Bliss married into the Meserole family in the early 1830s after purchasing land from them.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn eventually bought out most of the land in Greenpoint.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn established regular ferry service to Manhattan around 1850.
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In 1933 Greenpoint Brooklyn gained access to the New York City Subway, with the opening of the IND Crosstown Line, running under Manhattan Avenue from Nassau Avenue to Queens.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn Landing began construction in 2015 and is expected to be completed before 2027.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn's population is largely working class and multi-generational; it is common to find three generations of family members living in the community.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn is patrolled by the 94th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 100 Meserole Avenue.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn contains the following public elementary schools which serve grades PK-5:.
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The renovation of the Greenpoint Brooklyn branch was originally supposed to be completed in late 2018, but was delayed because of safety violations during construction.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn is served by the Greenpoint Brooklyn Avenue and Nassau Avenue stations on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn is served by the East River Ferry's India Street stop, which is temporarily closed.
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When Neziah Bliss created Greenpoint Brooklyn, he named the east-west streets in alphabetical order from north to south.
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Greenpoint Brooklyn is a popular filming location for New York TV and film productions due to its varied architecture, waterfront access, mixed zoning and relatively low street traffic, and because it is the primary home of two of New York's film and TV stage companies, Broadway Stages, and CineMagic Studios.
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