Brooklyn Community Board 1 has voted to support the proposed Monitor Point development at 40–56 Quay Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by The Gotham Organization, the three-tower project will rise 600, 450, and 230 feet and deliver 1,150 residential units along the Bushwick Inlet waterfront. The board voted 24–9 in favor of the proposal, marking the first local government body to formally back the project as it advances through the city’s land use review process.
Rendering of Monitor Point. Designed by FXCollaborative.
The board’s support is conditional. Members are calling for a 50 percent local preference for the development’s affordable housing units, additional cars for the G train, and a doubling of funding for Bushwick Inlet Park. Under the current proposal, 40 percent of the apartments, approximately 460 units, will be permanently affordable.
Of the total, 950 units will be located within two towers rising from a shared podium at 40 Quay Street, including 260 affordable apartments, while a separate 21-story building at 56 Quay Street will contain 200 units that are 100 percent affordable under the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s New Construction Program.
Rendering of Monitor Point. Designed by FXCollaborative.
Monitor Point is planned as a public-private partnership on land leased from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with additional site area tied to the Greenpoint Monitor Museum. The proposal includes 50,000 square feet of publicly accessible waterfront open space, a new permanent home for the museum, and resiliency upgrades along the East River shoreline. Gotham has also coordinated with the MTA to relocate transit operations to a new facility within the North Brooklyn Industrial Business Zone, a move intended to reduce truck traffic and facilitate the long-envisioned Box Street Park.
Rendering of Monitor Point. Designed by FXCollaborative.
Transit nearby the development includes the G train at the Greenpoint Avenue and Nassau Avenue stations.
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One of the better designs I’ve seen, hope it gets built.
This is a great project and hopefully it will lead to the completion of the adjacent inlet park master plan.
Keep dreaming with the affordability.
What is the point of giant swooping arrows in the sky? What on earth could that possibly have to do with urban planning?
In defense of this, I do appreciate that they’re trying to create a staggered skyline. One thing we’ve seen in LIC and Greenpoint lately is basically a plateau of similarly tall towers. Having some variety in heights is nice.
Having buildings of different heights is an urban planning goal of NYC? I’d never imagined such a thing.