Greenpoint

Rye, yellow Chartreuse, sweet vermouth, and dual bitters — McIlroy at Milk & Honey (1999), continuing the Manhattan-Brooklyn-Red Hook cocktail naming tradition.

The Greenpoint was created by Michael McIlroy at Milk & Honey, the influential New York City cocktail bar that Sasha Petraske opened on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side on New Year's Eve 1999. The cocktail — rye whiskey, yellow Chartreuse, sweet vermouth, Angostura bitters, and orange bitters — is a complex Manhattan variation named for the Greenpoint neighborhood of northern Brooklyn, continuing the NYC borough-and-neighborhood cocktail naming tradition established by the Manhattan, the Brooklyn, and the Red Hook (created by Vincenzo Errico at Milk & Honey in the same period). McIlroy subsequently co-founded Attaboy — opened with Sam Ross in 2011 on Eldridge Street in the space that Milk & Honey had vacated when it moved to West 23rd Street — which became one of the most respected craft cocktail bars in the city. Yellow Chartreuse, bottled at 40% ABV from a subset of the 130 botanical Grande Chartreuse formula, provides a sweeter, more honeyed herbal character than the more assertive green expression at 55% ABV; its inclusion in a Manhattan variation adds herbal complexity without the intensity that green Chartreuse would impose. The dual bitters structure — both Angostura and orange bitters — creates a more aromatic depth than single-bitters versions.