![]() Though the Polish community has been dwindling, with many Polish families and businesses priced out, a number of Polish restaurants and meat markets are still going strong. Until about the 1880s, the neighborhood was populated mostly by people of Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, and French descent, but in the late 19th century, immigrants from Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland began moving in, eventually earning the neighborhood the nickname Little Poland. Industrial production declined in the 1960s, and parts of the neighborhood became neglected, industrial wasteland until the creative renaissance in Williamsburg began spreading north into Greenpoint.Įver since the early days of Greenpoint’s industrialization, immigrants formed much of the neighborhood’s workforce. Waste from the factories spilled out into the East River and Newtown Creek, which became one of the city’s most polluted waterways. By the 1870s, residents were already complaining of foul smells. The mid to late 1800s saw Greenpoint become a bustling center for industry, with everything from ship building to oil refineries and porcelain makers located along the waterfront. ![]() It gets is name from a piece of land jutting out into the East River that to sailors passing by literally appeared to be a green point. In its earliest days as a Dutch settlement, the bucolic neighborhood was characterized by fields and orchards. In 1834, it became part of Brooklyn, which became a borough of New York City in 1898. It was originally inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans and became part of Bushwick during the days of Dutch New Amsterdam. The northernmost part of Brooklyn, Greenpoint is separated from Queens by Newtown Creek and bordered on the south and southeast by Williamsburg and Bushwick.
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