Typical Greenpoint

My block, a typical one in Greenpoint, New York (Brooklyn). To like Greenpoint, you have to appreciate the patchwork charm of lower middle income, three-family homes covered in aluminum or vinyl siding: they're most of the neighborhood.

For more conventional charm, there is a small historic district and a few more elegant buildings, like this eight-family tenement facing McGolrick Park.

The more substantial buildings in Greenpoint are brick, almost always yellow brick (outside the small historic district). There are no stone homes, and even most of the churches are brick.