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[NYguy]

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2013...-developments/

Greenpoint Residents to Sue City Over Planned Waterfront Developments


by Cate
9/6/2013

A group of Greenpoint residents and City Council candidate Stephen Pierson intend to sue the City and developers to stop the Greenpoint Landing and 77 Commercial Street developments, whose 12 towers of 30 to 40 stories would bring thousands of new residents into the neighborhood.

The lawsuit will argue that the City’s greenlighting of the two developments, which were said to have no negative environmental impact, was based on an inaccurate, outdated eight-year-old environmental impact study.

At the very least, the suit will delay the developments until a potentially more sympathetic mayoral administration comes in, said Pierson.

The group announced the suit at a rally Wednesday night where protesters held signs that said “the roof is too damn high” and “Greenpoint does not equal Midtown.”

The waterfront was rezoned in 2005 despite opposition from the local community board, paving the way for large-scale development.

Do you think public outcry now has the potential to reverse the rezoning — or force a redesign of the two high-rise developments planned there?

[dc_denizen]

Where can we protest the protest?

[JayPro]

I hope Bloomberg countersues...for twice as much. That is, if this running joke of an attempt to hinder progress in the City isn't summarily thrown out of court and the bailiff is instructed to have these jackasses removed bodily from the courthouse and incarcerated for eighteen months.

[antinimby]

They're using the same delaying tactics as the ones used at Atlantic Yards. These NIMBY's can be such douchebags.

It'll only make housing in this city even more expensive than it already is.

[NYguy]

http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/new...mong-residents

Greenpoint Development Project Causes Concern Among Residents


By: Jeanine Ramirez
09/26/2013

A project called Greenpoint Landing, however, is looking to take 22 acres and build housing, a school, parkland and an esplanade in the area. Some Greenpoint residents say no way.

"These projects are just a catalyst for more abuse with what the neighborhood is dealing with," said resident Kim Masson. "It's completely out of scale for a neighborhood that has three to four story buildings."

The developers have released a rendering of one relatively small-scale building, but the plans also include a number of buildings 40 stories high. The developers wouldn't say how many of these buildings they plan on constructing. While developers point to planned community access to their waterfront with 80,000 square feet of public space, critics point to the polluted Newtown Creek adjacent to the site and claim that much of the area is a brownfield.

Many critics voiced their environmental concerns at a public hearing at Borough Hall. "What happened during Hurricane Sandy was all these lots these guys are going to build on flooded, and when they flooded, they flooded with the toxic water from the Newtown Creek," said resident Darren Lipman. "So, the next morning when I got up and went outside and took a walk around to see the damage, the whole place reeked of oil."Residents say as the ground is dug up for construction, the air will become more toxic.

Developers argue they've done extensive testing and the site is clean, but opponents are circulating a petition calling for the state to do a study of its own. There are also issues of whether the infrastructure can handle thousands of new residents at the development and another planned for an adjacent site, as well as issues of who will be able to afford to live there.

Earlier this month, the community board disapproved both projects, saying they don't have enough affordable housing.Developers say there will be more than 400 affordable housing units, and they're working on providing ferry service as part of the neighborhood amenities. The project goes before the City Planning Commission next month.

http://freewilliamsburg.com/petition...in-greenpoint/

Petition to halt construction of towers on Superfund site in Greenpoint

http://www.change.org/petitions/gove...share_petition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR0pfzGuFk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-23aBAsj4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COzdlW0rc5o#t=39

View more speakers here...
http://www.newyorkshitty.com/tag/gre...rooklyn/page/2


I don't understand these people, it's not as if the neighborhood is being demolished to make way for these buildings. They put on a good show, but in the end it's all for nothing. They are years late if they want to try and stop this development.

[NYguy]

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...TATE/131109946

2 big Greenpoint apt. towers get green light
The controversial proposals will each add a residential tower of as many as 40 stories to the north Brooklyn waterfront and will be among the last big projects approved under the Bloomberg administration.

By Joe Anuta
November 6, 2013

Now that the commission has given its blessing to about 700 of the roughly 5,500-units in the Greenpoint Landing project, along with the 720-unit 77 Commercial St. development, eyed for the northernmost section of the Brooklyn's East River shoreline, the City Council now has 50 days to make the final call.

Greenpoint Landing is proposed by developer Park Tower Group under the name Greenpoint Landing Associates, while 77 Commercial is a separate project that is being advanced by Chetrit Group under the name Waterfront at Greenpoint. Should they gain ultimate approval, the projects, which include multiple towers of 30-to-40 stories, would be among the final significant changes to the city's waterfront approved under the Bloomberg administration.

Community Board 1 had recommended that City Planning disapprove the project, while Borough President Marty Markowitz recommended the opposite, however, both attached a list of conditions that largely dealt with strains on public transportation and the affordable housing component of the project, which the developers said they would explore.

But community outcry over the height and density of the developments technically do not apply to the current land-use application. The impetus for building along the shoreline was actually a 2005 rezoning that not only cleared the way for massive projects like the two being proposed, but also set aside space for park land.

.....Greenpoint Landing will ultimately include more than 1,300 units of affordable housing, ground floor retail and a total of 4 acres of open space. The current application is to specifically modify zoning regulations to construct a 640-seat public school and exempt it from the project’s allowable floor space. The application will also allow the transfer of city property to Park Towers to build 431 units of affordable and 276 units of market-rate housing. However, the majority of the project's units are being built as-of-right.

[NYguy]

http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/12/...point-landing/

City Council greenlights Greenpoint Landing
And Community Board 1 approves Two Trees' Domino Sugar Factory conversion





December 11, 2013
Julie Strickland

Bloomberg-era development projects are moving right along, with Two Trees Management’s Domino Sugar proposal getting the thumbs up from Community Board 1 and City Council passing Greenpoint Landing Associate’s controversial 10-tower Greenpoint Landing plan.

CB 1, in its advisory vote, recommended a few changes to the Domino plan, such as adding more three-bedrooms to the affordable units and designing more offerings for residents making 30 percent of the area’s median income. The board also asked that Two Trees give preference to area businesses when doling out the retail space.

“After more than a year of outreach and collaboration with local leaders, the community board vote makes it clear that neighborhood residents strongly prefer our new vision for Domino to the existing zoning,” Two Trees’ Director of Special Projects David Lombino told Brownstoner.

Two Trees will also be working to guarantee 660 units of “integrated affordable housing” and other community demands throughout the public approval process, he said.

The City Council similarly pressed for promises from Greenpoint Landing developers, upon which the latter promised to provide a site for an elementary school and to operate a free shuttle between the complex and public transportation. An additional 431 permanently affordable units were also part of the deal, available to families earning from 40 to 120 percent of the area’s median income. Greenpoint Landing Associates will also donate a total of $5.5 million to expand Newtown Barge Park.

The community board had previously voted down the Greenpoint Landing proposal, citing a need for more affordable and senior housing.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by NYguy

http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/12/...point-landing/

City Council greenlights Greenpoint Landing
And Community Board 1 approves Two Trees' Domino Sugar Factory conversion





December 11, 2013
Julie Strickland

GOOD. When can we expect to see work begin?

Also, does anyone know what "affordable" units are going for here?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Submariner

Also, does anyone know what "affordable" units are going for here?

Don't know, but the affordable units are supposed to be affordable to families making anywhere from 40 to 100 % of the median family income for New York.

[Hypothalamus]

Curbed NY:

Mapping Greenpoint's Towertastic Waterfront Of The Future
Friday, December 13, 2013, by Hana R. Alberts

.....
The buildings lettered A through H are towers, and it shows where proposed parkland, affordable housing, and the school could go.

Photo Credit: GWAPP.org

[Dac150]

Glad to see that this, and other East River developments, are moving forward.

[NYguy]

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014...ilding-permit/

Greenpoint Landing Developer Files First Building Permit


by Rebecca
March 7, 2014

Developer Park Tower Group has gotten the ball rolling on the hotly debated Greenpoint Landing development by filing a building application for a six-story mixed-use building at 21 Commercial Street. Designed by Handel Architects, the 85,033-square-foot structure will have ground floor commercial space and 93 units on prime Greenpoint waterfront land, according to a new building application filed Monday.

Eventually, the 20-acre megadevelopment will include 10 30- to 40-story towers, a new K-8 school and a public park. The developers also promised to keep 431 apartments “permanently affordable” and to run a shuttle between the development and the G train. Despite significant opposition from the Greenpoint community, the project cleared all the ULURP hurdles in the fall and was approved by the City Council in December.

[Hypothalamus]

Another one also filed: 33 Eagle Street

Here's the 21 Commercial St Permit



Park Tower files for permits on Greenpoint mega-project
Two affordable buildings will have 93 units and 98 units apiece
Katherine Clarke March 07, 2014 03:11PM


A rendering of 33 Eagle Street

Updated at 3:10 p.m: Developer Greenpoint Landing Associates, an affiliate of the Manhattan-based Park Tower Group, has filed building permits for two affordable residential apartments in Brooklyn.

The two affordable buildings, at 21 Commercial Street and 33 Eagle Street, are being developed in a joint venture with L&M as part of the gigantic waterfront development Greenpoint Landing. They are the first in a series of buildings Park Tower plans to build there.

The Commercial Street building has 93 units in total, while Eagle Street has 98. Both are being designed by Gary Handel of Handel Architects.
....

[Hypothalamus]

Crain's New York:

Greening of Greenpoint to begin in 2015
BY JOE ANUTA MAY 2, 2014 1:55 P.M.

Construction on the first of two long-awaited parks along the Greenpoint waterfront is set to begin in 2015, spurred by money from the developers of two massive residential projects on the waterfront that were approved last year. In preparation, the city's Economic Development Corp. issued a request for proposals Friday, seeking a contractor who could begin roughly doubling the size of the one-acre Newtown Barge Park at the beginning of 2015, and construction of the nearby, 2.5-acre Box Street Park one year later.

"We're very glad that these two major, open-space amenities that were committed to back in 2005 are finally moving forward," said City Councilman Stephen Levin, D-Brooklyn.

Plans for the parks were first floated when the gritty Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront was rezoned for residential development in 2005, yet cash to actually bring the greenspaces to fruition vanished.

Fast forward to the end of last year, when two massive, controversial projects were approved by the city. The developers of those complexes each contributed money to build the parks on top of millions in city capital dollars, albeit in different ways.

The Park Tower group, which is behind the 5,500-unit Greenpoint Landing project, chipped in a total of $5.5 million to fund the construction of Newtown Barge Park.

The Chetrit Group, on the other hand, is expected to purchase air rights from the Box Street Park site for roughly $8 million, which will be used to help fund construction.

That site is currently occupied by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority parking lot, though the city is chipping in up to $10 million to move that facility to the Bronx, which is expected to happen at the end of 2015.

Some of the park funding was increased as a result of last-minute negotiations between Mr. Levin and the developers in December.

[chris08876]

Greenpoint waterfront park projects move forward

Plans for two long-awaited parks along Greenpoint’s waterfront are finally moving forward.
Construction on the first of the two parks is now officially set to begin in 2015, financed by the developers of two massive residential projects on the waterfront, according to Crain’s.

On Friday, the city’s Economic Development Corp. issued a request for proposals for a contractor willing to nearly double the size of the one-acre Newtown Barge Park at the start of next year. The city wants development at the 2.5-acre Box Street Park to begin the following year.
“We’re very glad that these two major, open-space amenities that were committed to back in 2005 are finally moving forward,” said City Councilman Stephen Levin, D-Brooklyn.

The Park Tower group, which is developing a 5,500-unit Greenpoint Landing project, contributed $5.5 million to the Newtown Barge Park project. Likewise, the Chetrit Group will fund the Box Street Park project by purchasing air rights for roughly $8 million.

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May 04, 2014
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/05/...-move-forward/

[NYguy]

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2014...fordable-units

Greenpoint Landing, Williamsburg Get City Funding to Build Affordable Units


By Serena Dai
June 16, 2014

Affordable housing will be funded at two new developments in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, including the controversial Greenpoint Landing project, after the city approved financing for them on Monday.

New York City Housing Development Corporation announced that it issued some $373 million in bonds and $89 million in subordinate financing for projects across the city — some of which will go toward completing Greenpoint Landing's 93-unit low-income housing building and 98-unit mixed-use building.

Developer Greenpoint Landing Associates had previously agreed to include senior-specific housing in the 20-acre, 10-tower development if it received government funding.

The waterfront development caused an uproar in the neighborhood when it first debuted more than a year ago, as residents decried the buildings as "monstrosities" that would destroy waterfront access and not properly provide for low-income residents.

Developers already had the right to build high-rises due to 2005 waterfront zoning and ultimately agreed to contribute $500,000 to an anti-displacement housing fund and $3 million to the Newtown Barge Park after local opposition.

[P4R4DOCS]

I should be there at my last day of my new york trip this year. I remember the soccerfield (best place to play, with the empire state in the back)




some pictures that I took:








The Soccerfield:

[cadiomals]

Wait, what?? They've already built some towers? Are those the ones? ^^^

[WonderlandPark]

There seem to be 3-4 different renderings of this project...so which one is it?

[vandelay]

Those buildings are Northside Piers in Williamsburg, not Greenpoint, which is about a mile away as the crow flies. The latest renders of Greenpoint landing are the brick warehouse looking things (a much better look, imho). But we'll see what the reality is.