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Greenpoint

The shipbuilding peninsula at the end of the G — Polish Manhattan Avenue, a Japanese design block, and a slim new skyline on the water.

BROOKLYN · CD 1 · NTA BK0101 · JULY 2026
$1.56M Zillow home value index · May 2026
$4,587 Rent index · ZIP 11222 · May 2026
1982 Greenpoint Historic District designated
~5,500 Greenpoint Landing units at build-out
G · Ferry The line that skips Manhattan · East River B
The story

Ships, pencils, oil — and the quietest boom in Brooklyn

A shipbuilding peninsula that industrialized early, kept a Polish century on its main avenue, and absorbed a slim new skyline on the water. Scroll the timeline.

1862

The USS Monitor launches

Built at the Continental Iron Works — 101 days from keel to water.

1872

Eberhard Faber comes to West Street

The pencil works runs until 1956; nine buildings survive as a Historic District.

1875

The five black arts

More than fifty oil refineries work the edge, with glass, printing, pottery, and iron.

1886

The Astral Apartments

Lamb & Rich’s model housing for Charles Pratt’s oil workers — rented to this day.

1980–2001

The Polish avenue

Roughly 41,000 Poles settle around Manhattan Avenue — walkable end to end in Polish.

2005

The waterfront is unlocked

The Greenpoint–Williamsburg rezoning opens eight blocks of shoreline to housing.

2018–2022

The skyline arrives

One Blue Slip, The Greenpoint, then OMA’s cantilevered Eagle + West rise on the water.

2022–2025

The design block

A face-block of Norman Avenue becomes the city’s densest Japanese-Scandinavian design strip.

2026

The band fills in

1 Java Street opens as the city’s largest residential geothermal building; the next towers break ground.

The waterfront

The slow park and the fast skyline

05 · WNYC Transmitter Park · opened 2012

The transmitter lawn

On the site of WNYC's 1937 Art Deco transmitter station and its two 304-foot AM towers, the neighborhood's front porch opened in 2012 — a lawn, gardens, and a fishing pier running straight down the Greenpoint Avenue axis, with the Midtown skyline as the back wall. Designed by EDAW, WXY, and McLaren; the ferry glides past the pier head all day.

06 · Bushwick Inlet Park · ~9 of 27 acres open

The slow park

The 2005 rezoning promised a continuous 27-acre waterfront park on the Greenpoint–Williamsburg line. Twenty years on it arrives in sections: 86 Kent, the 50 Kent lawn (2021), and — as of April 2026 — the Motiva inlet parcel, with Brooklyn's tiniest beach. The CitiStorage parcels are cleared and in remediation; officials put the finish line $75–100 million away. The neighborhood keeps showing up anyway.

The neighborhood, mapped

The design block, the spine, and the water — one map

Every place in this guide, on one map. Filter by category, flip on Landmarks & history to see the industrial inheritance, and look for the ★ — those are YCRE’s picks.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
01Me and Paul's
02Di An Di
03Oxomoco★
04Karczma★
05Wenwen
06Uzuki
07Glasserie
08Chez Ma Tante
09Five Leaves
10Frankel's Delicatessen & Appetizing
11Kettl
12Café Grumpy
13Sweetleaf Coffee Roasters
14Rhythm Zero★
15Radio Bakery★
16Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop
17Van Leeuwen · The Scoop Shop at Flavor Lab
18Tørst
19Sonny's Corner
20Madeline's
21Diamond Lil
2250 Norman · Cibone O'te★
23Teak New York
24Dobbin St. Vintage Co-op
25Beacon's Closet
26Big Night
27Alter
28Kosuge Bachman
29Piquant
30McCarren Park
31Msgr. McGolrick Park
32WNYC Transmitter Park★
33Bushwick Inlet Park
34Newtown Creek Nature Walk
35The Box House Hotel
36Continental Iron Works site
37Eberhard Faber Pencil Co. Historic District
38Greenpoint Historic District
39Pulaski Bridge
40Astral Apartments
41St. Anthony of Padua Church
42Former Greenpoint Savings Bank
43McGolrick Park Shelter Pavilion
44St. Stanislaus Kostka Church
45Monitor Memorial
46Polish & Slavic Center
47Newtown Creek Digester Eggs
48Greenpoint Library & Environmental Education Center
49India Street Pier · NYC Ferry
YCRE Picks — starred on the map

Where to go right now

The spineManhattan Avenue, looking south — St. Anthony’s clock tower over the Polish corridor
What it costs

North Brooklyn's quieter flank

~$1.4M North Brooklyn median sale · Q1 2026
~$1,600 PPSF · North Brooklyn · Q1 2026
+7.1% Zillow home value index · YoY · May 2026
$4,587 Rent index · ZIP 11222 · +4.2% YoY

Greenpoint sits inside the North Brooklyn band reported by Corcoran, Elliman, and StreetEasy. In Q1 2026 the North Brooklyn median sale price rose 14.3% year-over-year to $1.4 million, with price per square foot up 7.9% to $1,600 — and Greenpoint-specific monthly snapshots have run hotter on small-sample months, with medians in the $1.8–2.2 million band. Zillow's home value index for the neighborhood read $1,563,733 in May 2026, up 7.1% on the year; its observed rent index for ZIP 11222 read $4,587, against a $4,347 Brooklyn median the same month. Supply splits cleanly — finite rowhouse and Historic District product inland, a deep new-development rental band on the water, with The Riverie's 834 units leasing into a Brooklyn rental market Corcoran clocked at +75% year-over-year activity. Current PPSF figures sourced from The YCRE Edit, refreshed quarterly.

Notable buildings

Six addresses that explain Greenpoint

Eagle + West

1 Eagle Street · 2022

OMA's twin cantilevered towers — 30 and 40 stories stepping toward and away from each other like a zipper — with interiors and landscape by Marmol Radziner. 745 rentals at the center of Greenpoint Landing, and the waterfront's architectural signature.

The Greenpoint

21 India Street · 2019

The 40-story tower over the India Street ferry pier — 95 condominiums stacked above 287 rentals, by Ismael Leyva Architects for Mack Real Estate Group with Palin Enterprises. The building that put a skyline address on the ferry commute.

One Blue Slip

1 Blue Slip · 2018

Greenpoint Landing's first market-rate tower, by Handel Architects — 30 stories on the new Blue Slip street grid, leasing from 2018. The building that opened the master plan's waterfront phase.

The Huron

29 Huron Street · 2024

Morris Adjmi's two 13-story condominium towers a block off the water — 171 residences, some forty percent with private outdoor space, developed by Quadrum Global with first closings in 2024. The neighborhood's condo benchmark north of India Street.

Astral Apartments

184 Franklin Street · 1886

Lamb & Rich's Queen Anne model housing for Charles Pratt's Astral Oil workers, 1885–86 — a full block of Franklin Street with a settlement house, library, and kindergarten built in. National Register 1982, NYC Landmark 1983, and still a working rental building.

Pencil Factory

122 West Street · 1872 / 2009

The 1872 Eberhard Faber building converted in 2009 by Daniel Goldner — the red brick kept, a checkerboard panel addition and rooftop light boxes added, 93 condominiums inside the pencil district's walls.

The quiet things
The geography does the editing. There is no through-traffic because the streets stop at the water, and the G never enters Manhattan — so the neighborhood self-selects for people who chose it on purpose. Peter Pan Donut has run its cash-only counter since the 1950s; the McGolrick Park farmers market sets up under Helmle & Huberty's pavilion year-round; the digester eggs glow blue over the creek at night. Even the boom keeps its voice down: the towers stand in one band on the water, and three blocks inland the loudest thing on a Tuesday is the church bell at St. Anthony's.
What’s said about it

In print

“Greenpoint quietly became one of the city’s most exciting restaurant neighborhoods — the lines on India Street are for bread.”

EATER NYFOOD COVERAGE

“Greenpoint Landing is the largest residential build-out on the North Brooklyn waterfront — and it is still only half delivered.”

Reference 17 fields
BoundariesNewtown Creek N & E · East River W · Bushwick Inlet / North 15th St S. ZIP 11222. NTA Greenpoint (BK0101), Brooklyn CD 1. A peninsula: no through-traffic — the streets stop at the water.
Historic districtsGreenpoint Historic District (LPC Sept 14, 1982, LP-1248 — Java, Franklin, Kent, Milton, Noble, Calyer, Leonard, Oak, Guernsey, Lorimer, Clifford Pl + portions of Manhattan & Greenpoint Aves) · Eberhard Faber Pencil Co. Historic District (LPC 2007, LP-2264).
SubwayG at Greenpoint Av & Nassau Av — the only non-shuttle service that never enters Manhattan; one stop over the creek to 21 St–Van Alst (LIC), Court Sq transfer to E/M/7.
BusB43 · B48 · B62.
FerryNYC Ferry East River B at India Street Pier (10 India St) — Pier 11/Wall St · DUMBO · South Williamsburg · E 34th St; ~24-min peak headways. Seasonal Rockaway Rocket from July 2026.
Parks & waterfrontWNYC Transmitter Park (2012) · Msgr. McGolrick Park (1889; pavilion 1910) · McCarren Park (35 ac, shared with Williamsburg) · Bushwick Inlet Park (~9 of 27 ac open; Motiva parcel + beach opened Apr 2026) · Newtown Creek Nature Walk (Trakas/DEP, dawn–dusk) · Box Street Park (gated on MTA relocation, target 2026–28).
Landmarks (NYC LPC)Astral Apartments (1886; LPC 1983, NR 1982) · McGolrick Park Shelter Pavilion (1910; LPC 1966, NR 1980) · Greenpoint HD (1982) · Eberhard Faber HD (2007) · St. Anthony of Padua (1875, in-district) · former Greenpoint Savings Bank dome (Helmle & Huberty, 1908).
CulturalPolish & Slavic Center (176 Java St, since 1972) · St. Stanislaus Kostka (Brooklyn’s largest Polish parish) · Greenpoint Library & Environmental Education Center (Marble Fairbanks, 2020) · Newtown Creek Digester Eggs + Visitor Center (DEP; tours currently suspended) · HBO’s Girls shot throughout (Café Grumpy = Hannah’s workplace).
YCRE picks · diningOxomoco · Di An Di · Karczma · Wenwen · Uzuki · Glasserie · Chez Ma Tante · Five Leaves · Frankel’s · Me and Paul’s.
Coffee & bakeriesRadio Bakery (135 India) · Kettl (70 Greenpoint) · Café Grumpy (193 Meserole, 2005) · Sweetleaf (159 Freeman) · Peter Pan Donut (727 Manhattan, cash only) · Rhythm Zero (32 Kent) · Van Leeuwen Flavor Lab (136 Franklin).
BarsTørst (615 Manhattan) · Diamond Lil (179 Nassau) · Sonny’s Corner (142 Franklin, 2026) · Madeline’s (113 Franklin). Achilles Heel closed Feb 2026 after 13 years.
Shops & design50 Norman (Cibone O’te · Dashi Okume · Kama-Asa · Balmuda · House Brooklyn · Cafe O’te) · Teak New York (34 Norman) · Dobbin St. Vintage Co-op (39 Norman) · Beacon’s Closet (74 Guernsey) · Big Night (154 Franklin) · Alter (140 Franklin) · Kosuge Bachman (170 Franklin) · Piquant (231 Norman).
SchoolsNYC DOE District 14. Zoned elementary commonly PS 31 Samuel F. Dupont (75 Meserole Av) and PS 110 The Monitor (124 Monitor St, French Dual Language). A new Greenpoint elementary — the first in over 125 years — was announced April 2025. Zones are redrawn periodically — verify any address with the NYC DOE School Search tool.
Market · mid-2026North Brooklyn Q1 2026: median sale +14.3% YoY to $1.4M; PPSF +7.9% to $1,600. Zillow ZHVI (Greenpoint) $1,563,733 May 2026, +7.1% YoY; ZORI (11222) $4,587, +4.2%. Brooklyn leasing activity +75% YoY (Corcoran, March 2026).
New developmentGreenpoint Landing (Park Tower Group; ~5,500 units at build-out, 1,400 affordable, ~3,000 delivered; next Handel phase ~1,000 units breaks ground summer 2026) · Eagle + West (OMA, 745u, 2022) · The Riverie / 1 Java St (Lendlease + Marvel, 834u, geothermal, opened 2026) · The Greenpoint (2019) · The Huron (Morris Adjmi, 171 condos, 2024) · Tower 77 (CetraRuddy, 520u, 2026).
Audit notePins web-verified July 2026 (four parallel subagents). Paulie Gee’s → Me and Paul’s (reopened Apr 2026); Pencil Factory Bar (closed 2025) → Sonny’s Corner; Ramona (closed 2022) → Madeline’s; Wolves Within storefront closed → Big Night; Bushwick Inlet acreage updated to ~9 of 27 (Motiva parcel opened Apr 30, 2026); Monitor Memorial dated 1938; The Greenpoint credited to Ismael Leyva / Mack RE; The Huron to Quadrum Global; The Riverie marked open.
Last updatedYC Real Estate Neighborhood Library · Greenpoint · built July 2026 (all pins web-verified).
Photography: Greenpoint Landing waterfront, Jim.henderson (CC BY 4.0); WNYC Transmitter Park, Rhododendrites (CC BY-SA 4.0); Bushwick Inlet Park, Newkai (CC BY-SA 3.0); Eagle + West, 1 Eagle Street, Kidfly182 (CC BY-SA 4.0); The Greenpoint tower, Rhododendrites (CC BY-SA 4.0); One Blue Slip, Greenpoint Landing, Kidfly182 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Manhattan Avenue, Jim.henderson (public domain); St. Anthony of Padua from Calyer Street, Kidfly182 (CC BY 4.0). Via Wikimedia Commons.
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