Now that the Greenpoint Courier has gone the way of the New York Sun, the Optimist wanted to take the opportunity to recognize his neighborhood's two remaining newspapers: The Greenpoint Gazette and The Greenpoint Star.

The Optimist is a regular reader of both these papers and even coughs up 35 cents to buy the Star
each week at his corner deli, even though getting it for free doesn't
require inordinate ingenuity. As a former weekly newspaper editor, I
enjoy these local papers, even though by the time they hit the stands,
I've generally read all of their stories on blogs like New York Shitty, Greenpointers, and Brooklyn 11211.