The read Greenpoint in short
Greenpoint is Brooklyn's northernmost neighborhood, home to a longstanding Polish community around Greenpoint and Nassau Avenues, McCarren Park, and the East River waterfront at WNYC Transmitter Park. It's reachable only by the G train (or the East River Ferry) — no other subway line touches it. Greenpoint's shipbuilding past includes a famous chapter: the USS Monitor, the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, was built at Continental Iron Works on the neighborhood's waterfront in about 100 days and launched into the East River on January 30, 1862.
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