{"nrhp_refnum":"83001692","name":"Greenpoint Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Kent, Calyer, Noble, and Franklin Sts., Clifford Pl. and Manhattan Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.72928969650005,"lon":-73.95526983825334,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 43-acre historic district of eleven residential and commercial blocks in the Greenpoint neighborhood of northern Brooklyn, New York City, developed mainly from the 1850s through the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is an intact nineteenth-century neighborhood closely tied to Brooklyn's waterfront industry. It housed owners, managers and laborers who worked nearby rather than commuters, and most buildings were put up individually by owners and builders rather than by speculative developers. It also retains an outstanding level of architectural integrity.","narrative":"Greenpoint Historic District covers eleven blocks of northern Brooklyn, a neighborhood that grew in the mid-nineteenth century alongside industry on the waterfront. Its streets hold substantial rowhouses built for factory owners and managers, more modest rowhouses and walk-up flathouses for laborers, plus shops, banks and six churches. Italianate houses with high stoops and bracketed cornices dominate, joined by Anglo-Italianate, Second Empire, neo-Grec and Queen Anne buildings, and by neo-Classical banks of 1895 and 1906. Unlike many Brooklyn areas, where developers built long rows for resale to commuters, most Greenpoint buildings were commissioned individually by owners and builders for people who worked nearby. The district was listed because it preserves this distinctive pattern of industrial-era residential life and keeps an unusually high level of architectural integrity. Streets still show vistas little changed since the turn of the century, with only seventeen intrusions among its buildings.","period_of_significance":"1850's-1930","architect_builder":"various","architectural_style":"Italianate, Anglo-Italianate, French Second Empire, neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival and neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as largely unchanged since its development, with 17 intrusions; occupied, with private residential, commercial and religious uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.336999-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001692.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001692/4bcefafecd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001692/4bcefafecd-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenpoint_YMCA_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenpoint_YMCA_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318405","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604394"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/greenpoint-historic-district-83001692/"}