News, Events & Local Businesses in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol and PS 132 are hosting the 13th annual Kite Festival this Sunday, May 21st from noon to 5 p.m. at East River State Park.
The event will include field-day activities, live entertainment, kite decorating and even food.
For more information, contact PS 132 at 718-599-7301 or by email at ps132ptaboard@gmail.com.
The Friends of Greenpoint Library is hosting a book and bake sale on Saturday, May 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Purchase books, doughnuts or pies, and your contribution will go directly to the library for programs and materials.
The day will be filled with activities, including Saturday Storytime at 11 a.m., Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards at noon and screen printing with Anna. O Grant at 2 p.m.
Calling all bikers!
The Department of Transportation (DOT) is hosting a FREE bike helmet fitting and distribution event on Friday, May 19 from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
The giveaway will be at De Hostos Playground at 140 Harrison Avenue in Williamsburg.
Pleasr note that to get a helmet, you must learn how to properly fit it.
A parent or legal guardian must be present to sign a waiver for children under 18.
Consider it a mural in the making.
The Grand Street BID announced that artist Ellie Balk and a group of high school students from the Green School are painting a mural on the T-Mobile building at 725 Grand Street in East Williamsburg.
Balk has painted other murals in the area. This will be the sixth mural of her “Pi” series.
The colors in this mural were inspired by the colors of Senegal, Africa, where she studied art.
Stay tuned and look out for the completed mural!
Police are looking for a man who stole a woman’s wallet in Bushwick earlier this week.
Authorities say that on Monday, May 8, at about 11 a.m., the suspect approached a 46-year-old woman inside a grocery store at 801 Flushing Avenue in Bushwick.
The suspect then took her wallet from her bag. The wallet had a credit card and $687 in cash.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
NYU Langone is making care even more accessible in Brooklyn, recently opening its first location in Greenpoint. It combines the comprehensive resources, technology, and expertise of NYU Langone with the physicians who neighborhood residents have come to know and trust.
NYU Langone Medical Associates – Greenpoint, previously known as
Manhattan Medical, is a multispecialty practice located at 1934
Manhattan Avenue, Suite A. Doctors there specialize in a dozen
clinical areas: allergy, cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, internal
medicine, endocrinology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology,
orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, and podiatry.
For more complex specialty care, patients can be seen – seamlessly —
within the NYU Langone health system, either at NYU Lutheran Medical Center http://www.
With the goal of bringing care to the communities where patients live
and work, there are now more than 40 NYU Langone ambulatory care
locations in Brooklyn, which is more than one-quarter of all of NYU
Langone’s ambulatory sites across the region. This is important
because approximately 25 percent of patients utilizing NYU Langone in Manhattan, in fact, live in Brooklyn.
NYU Langone is located at 934 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint. Their phone # is 718-389-8585
On Wednesday, May 10, Dr. Eric W. Sanderson, director of the Mannahatta and Welikia projects at the Wildlife Conservation Society will deliver a lecture on the ecology of Newtown Creek.
The speech, set for 6 p.m., will take place after a green roof tour at 520 Kingsland Avenue.
Sanderson will discuss his latest findings and the work he and his colleagues are doing to reconstruct pre-development ecology (circa 1609). He will talk about how that work informs efforts to envision a sustainable future for Newtown Creek.
Refreshments will be served at the event. RSVP for the free lecture here.
Police are looking for a reckless train rider who touched a woman’s behind in broad daylight.
Authorities say on Saturday, March 25, at about 10:30 a.m., the female victim was walking down the platform at Metropolitan Avenue and Lorimer Street when she saw the suspect urinating behind a garbage can.
As the victim was walking away, the suspect ran up behind her and slapped her on the butt.
He fled on foot towards a G train.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
An arsonist set fire to a school bus last week in Williamsburg, according to authorities.
Police say that on Thursday, April 27, at about 6:40 p.m., the suspect in question entered a parked and unoccupied religious school bus through the emergency door near Division Avenue and Bedford Avenue.
Once inside, he started a fire that damaged the front of the bus, police say.
He then fled the area in an unknown direction.
Below is a photo of the suspect, who was last seen wearing a sweat suit and dark-colored sneakers. He also has a chin-strap beard.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.
NYU Langone just opened up a new location in Greenpoint.
Located at 1934 Manhattan Avenue, Suite A., the multi-speciality practice will have doctors who specialize in clinical areas like:
NYU Langone also has locations in Sunset Park (NYU Lutheran Medical Center) and its main campus in Manhattan.
According to the hospital, there are now more than 40 NYU Langone ambulatory care locations in Brooklyn.
“We are excited to become part of NYU Langone, a world-renowned organization dedicated to providing high-quality and personalized care to patients,” says Dr. Shuja Nadir, a cardiologist and medical director at NYU Langone Medical Associates – Greenpoint. “Most importantly, this new partnership has allowed us to expand the specialties offered in our practice.”