Abstract. This paper studies the first hitting times of generalized Poisson processes N f (t), related to Bernstein functions f . For the space-fractional Poisson processes, N α (t), t > 0 (corresponding to f = x α ), the hitting probabilities P {T α k < ∞} are explicitly obtained and analyzed. The processes N f (t) are time-changed Poisson processes N (H f (t)) with subordinators H f (t) and here we study N n j=1 H fj (t) and obtain probabilistic features of these extended counting processes. A section of the paper is devoted to processes of the form N (G H,ν (t)) where G H,ν (t) are generalized grey Brownian motions. This involves the theory of time-dependent fractional operators of the McBride form. While the time-fractional Poisson process is a renewal process, we prove that the space-time Poisson process is no longer a renewal process.