Hey New Yorkers, were you totally bummed when you found out you missed the Smiths Speed Dating? Fret not, young lovers. My friends in Brooklyn have just made your dark, mopey day a little darker. No seriously, put down the razor blade and click through. On Thursday, March 19 Dave Hill and Bla...

Stumbled across the website or Craigslist ads for the Luxe Guesthouse in Greenpoint? It's a new hostel advertising rates as low as $79/night for a private room (one-week stay required) and $225/week for a shared room ($198/week for students!). Oh, and it's almost certainly illegal, which is why the ...

We’ve beein seeing these listings on CL for weeks but were too dumb to put two and two together until Miss Heather just did. $75 a night at a failed condo. Nice. [New York Shitty]...

We received an email the other day from Craig’s Kitchen, a community action group that supports their local soup kitchen in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn through fundraising and organizing volunteers. As an alternative for busy city dwellers who want to get involved but might not oth...

[All photos courtesy of Miss Heather] The horror show you are looking at is 126 India Street in Greenpoint and could serve as a textbook example of developer blight that is increasingly out of control in some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the early 2000s development boom. You know, before Mr. ...

From all reports, Chinese Musician Restaurant offers only average Chinese fare. But the Greenpoint eatery has one of the better, and more curious, names in the City. You sorta want to eat there simply because its called Chinese Musician. And the sign is pretty damn good, too....

On a cold spring day Last April, I discovered the Sunview Luncheonette—too late. The almost-too-perfect Greenpoint diner, founded in 1963 at the corner of Russell and Nassau in Greenpoint, had been closed by the Department of Health some months prior to my visit. A little detective work uncovered ...

[Photo courtesy of New York Shitty] How one views this depends on whether one considers burned out cars that have been tagged and, then, snowed on a good or a bad sign in terms of a neighborhoods progress toward gentrification. In this case, the roasted car comes the rezoned Greenpoint waterfront ar...

New York City, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, meet a new blog that has come to our attention: Two Hours Til Naptime: A Guide for Greenpoint & Williamsburg Parents. Oh, yes, indeed. Featuring include things like Gadget Alert: Beaba Babycook, Soy Vey: Formula Frought with Dangers! and one of our favorit...

Billy Sunday's BBQ [Photo Credit] 1) Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: Blogger Hawthorne Street reports that Carroll Gardens' beleaguered restaurateur Jim Mamary will open a new BBQ joint called Billy Sunday’s tomorrow on the other side of the park. He writes: “The restaurant is expected to beg...