Tucked at the northernmost tip of Brooklyn between the East River and Newtown Creek, Greenpoint retains an intimate, low-rise maritime character. Along Manhattan Avenue, multi-generational Polish smokehouses and bakeries dust warm rosehip pączki with powdered sugar every morning, while a block west on Franklin and West Streets, nineteenth-century rope factories and garages house boundary-pushing pastry kitchens, independent record shops, and waterfront taverns.