Greenpoint, Brooklyn | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-03

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00:02:07 1 History
00:02:16 1.1 Early colonization and agricultural era
00:08:13 1.2 19th-century industrialization
00:11:49 1.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:13:19 1.3.1 Environmental difficulties and litigation
00:18:49 1.3.2 2005 rezoning
00:23:35 2 Demographics
00:27:52 3 Political representation
00:28:22 4 Police and crime
00:29:46 5 Fire safety
00:30:30 6 Health
00:33:17 7 Post office and ZIP code
00:33:44 8 Education
00:35:25 8.1 Schools
00:36:13 8.2 Library
00:37:02 9 Transportation
00:38:07 10 Landmarks and attractions
00:38:18 10.1 Street grid
00:39:27 10.2 Parks
00:40:26 10.3 Architectural and historic landmarks
00:43:37 11 Notable people
00:44:17 12 In popular culture
00:48:40 13 See also



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Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick Inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the Pulaski Bridge, and on the west by the East River.
The neighborhood has a large Polish immigrant and Polish-American community, containing many Polish restaurants, markets, and businesses, and it has often been referred to as Little Poland.
Originally farmland – many of the farm owners' family names, such as Meserole (Messerole)  and Calyer, are current street names – the residential core of Greenpoint was built on parcels divided during the 19th century, with rope factories and lumber yards lining the East River to the west, while the northeastern section along the Newtown Creek through East Williamsburg became an industrial maritime area.
Greenpoint 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 and longshoreman or dock work. Since the early 2000s, a building boom in the neighborhood, especially of multifamily dwellings, has made the neighborhood increasingly a center of nightlife and gentrification. There have also been efforts to reclaim the rezoned Greenpoint / Williamsburg East River waterfront for recreational use and also to extend a continuous promenade into the Newtown Creek area.Greenpoint is part of Brooklyn Community District 1 and its primary ZIP Code is 11222. It is patrolled by the 94th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.