Many Polish immigrants are moving into Ridgewood, which is quickly becoming the “new Greenpoint,” with a growing number of Polish food stores and other businesses. But with U.S. economy sinking, some young Poles are moving back to Europe in search of economic opportunities.
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Prices are up at the Green Farms Supermarket, a Polish foods specialty store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn – and the weak dollar is to blame.
For customers in the heavily Polish neighborhood, getting a taste of much-misssed homeland delicacies is getting more expensive. Merchants, meanwhile, are ordering less goods and fear a dropoff in business. Sebastian Bednarski reports.
Vincent Abate may have a Brooklyn playground named after him – but even as he approaches 90, he’s not ready rest on his laurels. The longtime chairman of Williamsburg/Greenpoint Community Board 1, who has seen great change in his lifetime, plans to keep fighting to preserve affordable housing in the ever-transforming neighborhoods.
Marlene Peralta reports.
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Two candles encased in red glass, one with a gold cross imprinted on the front, burn in front of a lamppost on the corner of Nassau and Manhattan avenues in Greenpoint as a memorial to Stanislaw Mazur.
