GrptWGazSiteDedAwdCer26Oct06. GptWGazSiteDed19Oct04. GreenpointWilliamsburgGazette30December2003. New York Daily News - Boroughs - Monitor's ship finally comes in. For seven years, the Greenpoint Monitor Museum has existed largely in the hearts and minds of a Brooklyn couple - but all that may change soon. The museum, which has only a Web site and two fervent founders, made a huge leap closer to reality yesterday when a Texas-based oil company announced it would donate a waterfront plot in Greenpoint for the museum's future site. "We were a museum without a home, but not without a purpose," said co-founder Janice Lauletta-Weinmann. Since New York State officially recognized the museum in 1996, Janice and husband George Weinmann have traveled to schools to teach children the history of the famed Civil War ironclad Monitor. But all along they've pined for a piece of land on the Bushwick inlet in Greenpoint - near where the Monitor was constructed and launched in 1862 - to be the permanent home for a Monitor museum.
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Brooklyn on Line - Brooklyn History - The USS Monitor. The USS Monitor Constructed in 1861-1862 at the Continental Ship Yard in Greepoint Brooklyn in 101 days John Ericsson, a New York resident in the 1860's, was one of the unsung inventors of his day.
He invented air compressors, boilers, engines, locomotives, naval guns and a prototype for the screw propeller...and was a wraith to Naval Brass for much of his life. The Greenpoint Monitor Museum.