Polish-language newspaper in Greenpoint survives despite odds
Even though the Polish community of Greenpoint is declining, a Polish-language weekly there is reportedly thriving.
That newspaper is Kurier Plus, located on the second floor of a building on Java Street. The paper has only two in-house workers and one part-time computer person, and the writers all send in their articles, according to the Columbia Journalism Review.
Kurier Plus has only one rival weekly, Nowy Dziennik, which used to be published in Greenpoint but is now published in New Jersey. Agnieszka Granatowska, editor-in-chief of Echo Polonijne, a free quarterly published by the Polish Slavic Center, told the Columbia Journalism Review, “Generally speaking, the Polonia here in New York City are learning toward publications that deal exclusively with the events happening around Polish communities in the United States — events and news that one cannot simply find on the internet.”
