GREENPOINT HISTORY: MCGUINNESS BOULEVARD PROPOSED

Written By Ben Wolf

There’s been a lot of change on McGuinness Boulevard, and we don’t just mean recently. 62 years ago, then-Councilman Joseph T. Sharkey put forward a proposal to rename the stretch of road connecting the Pulaski Bridge and BQE once known as Oakland Street to McGuinness Boulevard.

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