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I lived two and a half years in New York City but I didn’t know much about Greenpoint. A brief visit for a special occasion brought me to this corner of Brooklyn.

Stayed at Franklin Guest House where my first floor room was surprisingly spacious, a narrow mini apartment with a kitchenette. Would recommend although I couldn’t call it charming. ($269 a night or so).

Lunch at Acre:

(this photo I borrow from Kelvin Shum)

Visited Tula House where they gave me some good advice on arid plants

Trip to High Valley Books (appointment only, message them on Instagram)

Chopped cheese at Deli Point.

(this photo from Kristiana Noel)

Best was visiting WYNC Transmitter Park, where you get a view of Manhattan I wasn’t used to.

Cheers to Schofield for identifying this clock tower building:

which Perplexity AI failed to do even with coaching.

It’s the Consolidated Edison Building.

The ornamentation at the tower’s peak included urns and obelisks, which were normally associated with funereal aspects, and was modeled after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. These decorations memorialize Con Ed workers killed in World War I. The tower section was topped by a “Tower of Light” designed to look like a miniature temple.

If I’d had the time would’ve liked to see the Monitor monument in McGolrick Park

The USS Monitor was built at Continental Iron Works.

I thought of Greenpoint as being a fairly inexpensive part of north Brooklyn but an apartment’s gonna run you from $885,000 (zero bedroom one bath) to four million dollars or so.