Episode 198 of The Bowry Boys. The history of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Hi there, welcome to The Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers.

And on today's show, we're going to be inspecting the history of a neighborhood, a neighborhood

of unusual character and one on the cusp of rapid change.

It's a neighborhood with a colorful past and even a colorful name.

That name would be Greenpoint, that little old neighborhood in the northernmost section

of Brooklyn.

You say little old Greg, but it's really not that old.

In fact, it's amazing to consider all the change that has taken place in this relatively

small area in the past 150 years.

It's gone from bucolic farmland to hipster haven, although it's a neighborhood that hasn't

quite yet been overrun by artisanal eateries and fuzzy cafes, not entirely.

It's actually one of my favorite neighborhoods in New York City.

There's something about it. There's a certain remoteness to it.

It's a mix of industrial architecture, 19th century townhouses, then avenues of rich

polished culture mixed in, of course, next to that unusual body of water called Newtown

Creek and the East River and the East River.

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