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Throughout its history, Greenpoint has been a working class-neighborhood. Primarliy a factory town due to its proximity to the East River, Greenpoint grew around the industrial complexes situated on the river. Housing different immigrant working classes, Greenpoint is now largely comprised of Polish-Americans (if you are looking for kielbasa, this is the neighborhood) and Latinos. Greenpoint is still largely middle-class and blue-collar, but many are moving into the area due to the proximity to Manhattan and the low rents.

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are the Astral Apartments (1886) on Franklin Street; the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord (1921) on North Twelfth Street; the Oliver Hazard Perry School (1867) on Norman Avenue; the Green Point Savings Bank (1908) on Manhattan Avenue, and the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church (1896) on Humboldt Street.

Greenpoint's primary park, McGolrick Park, contains both the Shelter Pavilion (1910) and a monument (1938) to the U.S.S. Monitor ironclad ship, built at Greenpoint's Continental Iron Works.

Notable individuals born and/or raised in Greenpoint include actress Mae West and pop singer Pat Benatar.

Greenpoint is the most polluted area of BrooklynFor other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening New York State Brooklyn with about 2. 5 million inhabitants, is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, and would be the fourth larg due to the proximity of the oil depots on the East River and the New York City Water Treatment Plant. It is the site of the largest underground oil spill in America along Newtown CreekNewtown Creek is a tributary of the East River, approximately 3. 5 miles in length. It forms part of the boundary between Brooklyn and Queens. Its waterfront, and that of its tributaries (English Kills, Dutch Kills, and Maspeth Creek), is heavily industri.