Greenpoint
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River. The neighborhood has a large Polish immigrant and Polish-American community, containing many Polish restaurants, markets, and businesses, and it is often referred to as "Little Poland".
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Getting to Greenpoint
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 8 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 18 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 19 km
- Philadelphia → Greenpoint134 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · $13–18
- Hartford → Greenpoint157 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · $14–20
- Albany → Greenpoint215 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · $20–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Greenpoint
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Greenpoint. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe East River Ferry makes stops in both north and south Williamsburg.
From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn/Williamsburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Greenpoint
Greenpoint is 5 km from New York City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.