r/Greenpoint

My apartment overlooks this corner and I have seen and/or heard tens of accidents at the intersection. It’s getting increasingly bad. Tonight, a cab driver hit a cyclist, throwing him off of the bike. Then the driver proceeded to run over the bicycle and continue on, full speed ahead, South down Franklin street. Thankfully, the cyclist seemed okay, there was a witness on the street.

I noticed they did paint some kind of a yellow caution sign onto the road but it doesn’t seem to be enough. Are there any community organizers to get in touch with? I would guess they are likely aware of it but maybe with more support we can help make it a bit safer. Be careful out there!

TLDR: This intersection is so dangerous and there are constantly accidents here - how do we make it safer?

Is there anyone who has met a mentally ill redhead who lives on an N street, way out by the K bridge?

She assaults people and is a violent person.

A lot of people in a recent dog-hating thread seem to not understand how dogs and the waterfront are tied together, who manages these parks and pay for the maintenance.

Re-some "can't believe the dog owners are ruining the reseeding of the parks paid by our tax dollars! " comments - showing complete misunderstanding and confusion.

Some background information:
- Luxury building nowadays can get some important tax benefits by both: putting some amount of units to affordable housing, and opening and maintaining some public spaces/amenities. The latter is seen in some public plaza around Midtown for example, and some waterfront development in Greenpoint.
- Most of the waterfront of Greenpoint - besides Transmitter park and the new Bushwick inlet park - is built and maintained by these property management companies. This includes Greenpoint Landing from Brookfield Property (EaglexWest, Blue Slip, Bell Slip), the waterfront north and south of the Greenpoint Ferry (and at the foot of the luxury buildings managing them), the newly developed waterfront by Calyer, etc.
- These luxury building have a lot of units and tend to be dog-friendly. A lot of people were saying stuff like "bad choice to move here with a dog". Uhhm actually. A dog-friendly luxury building (some of them with in-building dog day-care) with adjoining green space and a waterfront is one of *the best place* you could move to inner NYC with a dog.

So what happens is:
New luxury building on the waterfront -> waterfront park development -> park is managed and maintained by property management
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New luxury building *with a ton of unit* and *dog-friendly* on the waterfront -> people with dogs move there -> more dogs in the neighborhood -> no proper dog space -> dogs damage the waterfront park

Dogs and the waterfront are inherently tied together via the choices of the property management. But also, that waterfront development and maintenance is paid by the rent of all these transplants with dogs you complain about - not your tax dollars.

The problem is:
Brookfield property in particular made these dog-friendly buildings but did not include in their waterfront development space for these dogs (let's ignore that ridiculous pebble corner).
What they SHOULD have done is turning one of the green spaces in a dog park. They could still do this. If dogs ruin their lawns, and they have to maintain them more, that could be an incentive for them to actually care about the dogs they brought to the neighborhood.

SO no proper dog space -> dogs damage the waterfront park -> Brookfield property pays (-> paid with the rent of people with dogs renting in luxury building).

This is also why complaining to 311 is useless. This is not a NYC park. This is a privately managed park.
The waterfront development has been led by the luxury high-rise we like to complain about, and paid by the transplant dog owners this community likes to bash on.
What you can do is complain to Brookfield property and others, to stop building this huge amount of dog-friendly housing and bringing dogs into the neighborhood but omitting to include them in their public amenities developments.

Putting a picture from Brookfield property website (you can also check https://greenpointlanding.com/ )

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Location: sweetleaf

I’m still shaking from the intensity of this missed connection.

You were wearing a fast-fashion shirt from Zara or H&M that was a tasteful brown with horizontal stripes.

You kept making eyes at the objectively attractive girl (OAG) to my left. After your fifth or ninth attempt (I lost count), she looked up and stared into the distance since she was writing an email and was stuck on wording.

You jumped into her line-of-sight and took this as your “signal” to walk over to the coffee bar and aggressively thrust your head through the fern plant to proclaim “You are very gorgeous.” Then you just let that sentence hang there in the open as I looked on. Your complete lack of social ability left my jaw wide open. Only a person making bank in soft development would posseess this amount of complete flirtatious ineptitude. I was smitten.

It took a moment for the OAG to realize what had occurred, and in the moment that she took off her over-the-ear headphones, we locked eyes for maybe .1 of a second. But it was strong and intense.

Then she said “….oh...thank you?” and you fled the scene.

If you see this, shoot me a DM, I have a dope app idea I’d love for you to code, I can tell you definitely live in a computer terminal and would crush this.

P.S. This actually happened. I’m legit still shaken up.

Random post, but I’m curious.

I (32F), recently out of a long-term relationship, and new-ish to Greenpoint. I’ve been trying the apps and, like many people, I’m already over them. The endless swiping, awkward small talk, “let’s grab a drink sometime” that turns into nothing… you know the drill.

Last night I was at Moonlight Mile and saw a handsome guy actually walk up to a woman, start a normal conversation, and get her number. Not in a creepy way, either. It was charming? Confident? Almost like seeing a wild animal that was supposed to be extinct. My friends and I all clocked it immediately and were like, wait… good for him?

It made me wonder: do people here actually meet organically anymore? Bars, coffee shops, parks, mutual friends, neighborhood events, whatever? Or is everyone mostly sticking to Hinge/Bumble/etc. and pretending that’s working?

So what’s the Greenpoint dating scene actually like… are people still meeting in the wild, or are we all just pretending Hinge is working?

Lorimer and Bayard

Not sure who to thank but I just noticed the new traffic light at Lorimer and Bayard on the edge of the McCarren track. I'm all for more safety!

I know Jose’s Deli on the north end of Franklin got new ownership recently. Apparently the cat did not make the transition, as they dumped her outside last night. Not in great condition.

A reminder that bodega cats don’t usually live the lives that people like to glamorize on socials.

I had my hair permanently dyed dark brown back in September , which is now more of a reddish medium brown with lots of dirty blonde overgrowth lol - any good -affordable places for a full highlight to help blend this into an appealing summer look? I know full highlight is objectively not going to be cheap but I’m only seeing 350+ so I’m curious. Xoxo

Packed platform, delayed/ no trains , had to get 7.

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I just moved to NY a month ago from Miami and I'm trying to figure out my business and life here.

And I'm here to offer:

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I’ll be the first to ask lol anyone know what’s going on?

Who’s got a great barber who specializes in men’s longer hair?

scissor cut all around + natural look on the sides and back + keep 2.5 inches on top

Re-entering into buyout convo with my building owner. Only rent stabilized unit out of 5 rented apartments

100 year old building but the rest of building outside my unit renovated. Prime Greenpoint / Williamsburg area near Mcgolrick.

What have People recently been asking and getting? Seems we have a lot of leverage and the last time we chatted about it and declined was during Covid so I realize averages $$ may have altered. Also Im mid 30s single no kids. Unit is overall stellar condition. We’ve maintained it well and kitchen appliances were all updated in 2008 still amazing/ before that industry went to h3ll.