Greenpoint

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Greenpoint is Brooklyn's northernmost neighborhood, with the East River on its west and Newtown Creek, across from Long Island City in Queens, on its north.

  • 1.27 square miles
  • 38,980 residents, 2020 Census
  • 212 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 7 bus routes

The name comes from a small riverside bluff at the end of today's Freeman Street. In the 19th century the area filled with shipyards, glassworks, potteries and foundries, among them the ironworks that launched the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor in 1862. Today it is known for the Italianate and Queen Anne rowhouses of its landmark district, whose first buildings went up in the early 1850s, a large Polish community and parks such as McGolrick Park and WNYC Transmitter Park.

Sources: Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Brooklyn Landmarks-Greenpoint (Historic Districts Council); USS Monitor (NOAA).

Map

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Greenpoint borders two areas, and Manhattan Avenue and Nassau Avenue hold more of its corners than any other street, 23 each of 212.

Street map of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, outlined among East Williamsburg and Williamsburg, with its two subway stations and Msgr. McGolrick Park.East WilliamsburgWilliamsburg
  • Greenpoint
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Greenpoint Av lines G accessible
  • Nassau Av lines G

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on seven routes stop in or at the edge of Greenpoint.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 7 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B24
  • B32
  • B43
  • B48
  • B62
  • B94
  • T403

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,684 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.9 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 15 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 27 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
20
Accessible pedestrian signals
13
Turn calming
13
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 1,669 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 38,980 residents in Greenpoint, about 30,700 per square mile.

  • 20,381 homes, 2020 Census
  • 10,245 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,068 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 90% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
20.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Msgr. McGolrick Park (9.1 acres), Newtown Barge Playground (2.6 acres) and Bushwick Inlet Park (1.7 acres)
Designated landmarks
Public School 34, the Winthrop Park Shelter Pavilion and the Astral Apartments
Historic districts
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company and Greenpoint, wholly or partly within Greenpoint

Streets and trees

Trees
4,846 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Manhattan Avenue, with 23 of the area's 212
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists seven schools and one library in Greenpoint.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 29 bike-share stations stand in Greenpoint. The City's public art inventory lists four works in the area, among them Greenpoint War Memorial (1923), Monitor Memorial (1938) and Waterfront Nature Walk (2007).

  • 29 bike-share stations
  • 4 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 418 major felonies at places in Greenpoint.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Greenpoint

  • 442 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,349 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Greenpoint, the NYPD recorded another 41 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Greenpoint.

Map of Greenpoint: 16 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Greenpoint, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Greenpoint, most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Greenpoint are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Greenpoint and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
94th
Major felonies recorded at places in Greenpoint, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 169 major felonies at places in Greenpoint, against 217 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.