Greenpoint Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Greenpoint Historic District is a national historic district in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It consists of 363 contributing commercial and residential buildings built between 1850 and 1900.”
Wikipedia article Greenpoint Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Kent, Calyer, Noble, and Franklin Sts., Clifford Pl. and Manhattan Ave., New York, 11222
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. district
Borough. Brooklyn
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83001692 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1889 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Greenpoint Historic District, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Greenpoint Historic District, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

1,884 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,884 fires within 5 miles of Greenpoint Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 523 acres in total. 119 started naturally. 132 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1235
Arson/incendiarism	132
Smoking	123
Natural	119
Equipment and vehicle use	87
Debris and open burning	74
Misuse of fire by a minor	61
Fireworks	23
Recreation and ceremony	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Other causes	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Greenpoint Historic District: 8 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Garnet, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
102nd St & 4th Ave Garnet Deposit	Garnet, Gemstone	Occurrence
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl Deposit	Beryllium	Occurrence
64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave Deposit	Iron, Garnet, Titanium	Occurrence
Manhattan Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Week's Trap Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1898
2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
55th/56th Sts & 3rd Ave Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
85th/86th Sts, 9th/10th Aves Dep.	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1947 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Astral Apartments	0.2 miles	1982
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord	0.7 miles	1980
Monsignor McGolrick Park and Shelter Pavilion	0.7 miles	1980
Austin, Nichols and Company Warehouse	0.9 miles	2007
Moslem Mosque	1.3 miles	2021
Williamsburgh Savings Bank	1.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001692 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings County	All 207 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.