Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood, Greenpoint, is a hip neighborhood that has overcome significant environmental hurdles throughout its existence. Bordering Williamsburg, Queens and the East River, Greenpoint was Brooklyn-farmland it’s industrial revolution transformed the area into a major waterfront passageway. After numerous residential conversions of warehouses and rising real estate prices, the neighborhood was expected to share its fate with Williamsburg.

Still perceived as one of the City’s underground, pre-gentrification areas, the area has a ton of appeal and big-time draw. Because of the area’s tricky commute, specifically its lack of a subway line going directly to Manhattan, the buildings in the area remain low-rise, and the main commercial district, concentrated around Manhattan Avenue, still has old Polish bakeries and meat markets.