NEW YORK | Monitor Pt (40 Quay St) | 640 / 490 / 260 FT | 56 / 41 / 21 FLOORS

[Busy Bee]

I'm probably in the minority here, but outside of the actual river ring landscape feature I don't actually like the design of the towers. If they didn't have the weird flaring at the bases we'd all be saying how boring and lame they are, outside of the height of course.

[NYguy]

Speaking for myself, I like the facade and the setbacks. And it's nice to get a waterfront tower - which will be highly visible - with a nice design.

[NYguy]

Always the same song with these people. At least some are getting it….



https://ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/news/2026/0...-massive-waterfront-development-proposal

Greenpoint divided over massive waterfront development proposal





BY Rebecca Greenberg
Jan. 21, 2026

A proposed high-rise development along Brooklyn’s Greenpoint waterfront is dividing a tight-knit neighborhood.

Greenpoint residents rallied Tuesday against the proposed Monitor Point development ahead of a community board meeting, where hundreds turned out to voice their opinions.

”It’s not sustainable, and it’s not good for the community, and it’s not good for the environment,” said Scott Fraser, a longtime Greenpoint resident.

“If you live in this neighborhood and you’re able to work on a project in this neighborhood and it’s also affordable housing, it’s a home run,” said Robert Brunotte, a union organizer with Laborers Local 79.

Developers are seeking approval to build three mixed-use buildings on an MTA-owned lot along the East River, with towers ranging from roughly 230 to 600 feet tall.

“This development is completely out of scale with the neighborhood,” Fraser said. “It’s going to be incredibly tall — taller than anything else we have in this part of North Brooklyn. It’s going to be incredibly close to one of the most sensitive ecosystems in all of New York City, the Bushwick Inlet.”

Plans for Monitor Point call for three towers containing about 1,150 apartments, 40% of which would be designated as affordable housing. Supporters argue the project would help address the neighborhood’s rising housing costs.

“That’s a win right there for Brooklynites, especially here in the Greenpoint community, because we all know how Greenpoint can be a very expensive neighborhood to live in,” Brunotte said. “It’s time that we have affordable housing here in Greenpoint.”

“The creation of jobs, point blank — yes, the creation of jobs, especially for people who live here in the community,” Brunotte said. “We have a lot of members who live here in the community in Local 79. It’s job opportunities. It’s growth.”

This community has looked forward to fully accessing the waterfront, and it’s kind of the last that is left,” said Asenhat Gomez of the nonprofit El Puente. “To see this project being presented is like, what happened? We’ve been fighting long and hard. This is a public park, and this project is going to be on public land that could be used differently.”

The City Council will have the final say on whether Monitor Point moves forward. If approved, construction could begin in 2028, with completion expected by 2031.

[NYguy]

https://gothamist.com/news/a-600-foot-wa...omplex-is-brooklyns-latest-housing-fight

A 600-foot waterfront apartment complex is Brooklyn's latest housing fight





By David Brand
Jan 20, 2026

New York City’s latest housing development fight is approaching a decisive moment in Greenpoint, two decades and four mayors after a major neighborhood rezoning plan fueled skyscraper development along North Brooklyn's waterfront.

The real estate developer Gotham Organization plans to lease land owned by the MTA and construct a 1,150-unit apartment complex on Quay Street, with buildings reaching 600 feet tall — among the highest in the neighborhood — across a narrow estuary from the long-stalled Bushwick Inlet Park. The 28-acre greenspace was a centerpiece of the sweeping land use plan that transformed Greenpoint and neighboring Williamsburg, but remains years from completion amid legal battles over cleanup of the toxins left behind by fossil fuel companies.

The housing plan's opponents argue that the project doesn’t deliver enough affordable housing and disrupts the area's ecology. It has also come to symbolize the anger among residents who see yet another high-rise construction plan in a neighborhood that has produced more housing than any other over the vpast 15 years, while they are still waiting for a park promised two decades ago.

The developer behind the project has already made concessions. In response to local opposition to the plan, Gotham Organization announced in December that it would make 40% of the planned apartments, or about 460 units, affordable for low- and middle-income renters.

“We listened to feedback from neighbors facing the housing crisis daily, which is why we significantly increased our commitment to both a higher percentage and deeper affordability levels than other waterfront projects,” Gotham Organization’s President of Development Bryan Kelly told Gothamist in a written statement.

The company’s revised plan includes one 200-unit complex where all apartments would be priced for low- and middle-income renters earning 40% to 100% of the area median income — or roughly $45,000 to $113,000 for a single adult. It also includes a pair of towers on a shared platform with 950 units, about 260 of them deemed affordable at an average of 60% of the area median income — $68,000 for a single adult.

The new affordability commitments earned praise from top city officials, including Department of Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani, who was the head of the city’s housing agency when the new plan was unveiled last month. But they weren’t enough to win over local leaders like Councilmember Lincoln Restler, who is demanding more affordable units.

“As is, I do not support the project,” Restler told Gothamist Friday. “On public land, we have to maximize affordable housing.”

MTA officials have argued that the deal gives the agency more cash needed to fund its capital improvement projects and transit operations. MTA Chair Janno Lieber said the MTA has an obligation to “retrieve market value" for its properties in a 2021 statement announcing the deal with Gotham Organization. An MTA spokesperson declined to comment and instead directed questions about the plan to the developer.

Howard Slatkin, who runs the housing policy group Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said that the Monitor Point plan unlocks a number of community benefits, including the creation of hundreds of affordable apartments during a dire housing crunch.

The Gotham Organization is also funding the relocation of a second MTA facility currently located on the site of the planned Box Street park, another long-delayed greenspace further north in Greenpoint. The housing project will open more waterfront access and create space for a new museum dedicated to the USS Monitor, the historic ironclad Civil War ship constructed in Greenpoint in 1861.

"It’s the subject of righteous frustration that it’s taken this long,” said Slatkin, who played a key role in developing the Greenpoint rezoning plan as an official with the Department of City Planning. “But the project ties together a bunch of loose threads that haven't been dealt with.”

[Busy Bee]

I wonder how many of the eight are trust fund kids?

[NYguy]

Plans for Monitor Point call for three towers containing about 1,150 apartments, 40% of which would be designated as affordable housing. Supporters argue the project would help address the neighborhood’s rising housing costs.

Nearly half of the units as affordable housing is a good. It could be 100 % affordable, and they would still be complaining about the height.

[NYguy]

Currently in Bourough President's review....

[mrnyc]

the fight for affordable housing on public land is righteous, to a point, and always slow and frustrating, but we just have to be patient. the design here appears to be very attractive, even unusally so, so we are lucky for that. it will be interesting to watch rise and well worth the wait.

[sentinel]

Love the design.

[NYguy]

There are many benefits too a project like this. It’s just a shame that it’s required (like most others) to jump through so many hoops.

[chris08876]

Brooklyn Community Board 1 Votes In Support Of Monitor Point Development At 40-56 Quay Street In Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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.

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.

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.

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[Busy Bee]

Good stuff.

Get it started.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by sentinel

Love the design.

[NYguy]

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.

People can never be appeased. They always want more.

[BuildThemTaller]

Originally Posted by NYguy

People can never be appeased. They always want more.

It is crazy that the G train has been running short cars for this long even though the stations can handle longer sets. They should also restore service along the F/M tracks under Northern Blvd in Queens.

[Busy Bee]

TA has been running short G trains this long because they literally have a shortage of cars. As worthy of criticism they are, I believe even they know the G service no longer justifies the short sets which also require the platform dash if you're just catching it. In time I think this will be taken care of.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller

It is crazy that the G train has been running short cars for this long even though the stations can handle longer sets. They should also restore service along the F/M tracks under Northern Blvd in Queens.

And yet, raise the far 10 cents, and there is outrage.

[NYguy]

NIMBYs give their opinion piece...


https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/02/an-early-test-for-mayor-mamdanis-parks-promise/

An early test for Mayor Mamdani’s parks promise

By Katherine Thompson and Chris Dunn
Thompson leads Save the Inlet, and Dunn is a member of the group.
March 2, 2026

The flashpoint for the luxury-tower proposal is land owned by the MTA that borders a waterfront stretch across from Midtown Manhattan. In 2005 the city promised to turn that stretch into a glorious Bushwick Inlet Park when it rezoned Greenpoint and Williamsburg to allow high-rises at the river’s edge. Unsurprisingly, the towers appeared quickly. But two decades later much of the designated park area remains fenced off and highly contaminated from heavy industry that occupied the waterfront for over a century.

To protect the park, the 2005 rezoning limited buildings on the MTA land to 14 stories, designated as parkland an adjoining waterfront lot, and required a 40-foot public esplanade along the river. The Gotham Organization now seeks to blow up these commitments through a sweeping rezoning that would remove the park designation, narrow the public walkway, and permit 56-story and 41-story luxury towers flush against the park on the MTA land, which the agency tentatively has agreed to lease.

The Gotham towers would stand next to Bushwick Inlet, a rare natural embayment and ecological treasure finally scheduled to open this spring. Our group, Save the Inlet, was formed to protect the inlet from this mega-project and grows out the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, which has spent the last 20 years fighting to get the city to live up to its promises in the 2005 rezoning.
Already outraged by the decades-long wait for the park, the local community is up in arms over the prospect of 100 stories of concrete and glass looming over Bushwick Inlet.

Nearly 5,000 local residents have signed a petition opposing the project, and hundreds turned out for recent Community Board meetings that marked the start of the review process of Gotham’s rezoning application. Local Councilmember Lincoln Restler spoke forcefully against the proposal, noting that public land should only be used for public good and that any project had to come with firm commitments to complete Bushwick Inlet Park.

But Gotham is pushing ahead, relying largely on claims its towers will include affordable housing. It recently emerged, however, that nearly half of that housing would be relegated to a separate building farthest from the waterfront — a classic “poor door” — and some rents would be pegged to household incomes of $162,000 for families of four. This is the “affordable” bait Gotham is dangling to develop waterside luxury towers where monthly rents could reach $20,000.

No one can accuse Greenpointers of being NIMBYs. Greenpoint and Williamsburg welcomed nearly 30,000 new housing units between 2010 and 2024, more than any other district in the city. Meanwhile, Greenpoint has one of the city’s lowest ratios of open space, and the proposed project would make it even worse with nearly 3,000 additional residents.

With a new mayor committed to truly affordable housing and more open space, now is the time to stop private developers seeking to use public land to build luxury housing while devastating nearby parks. Rather than tearing up the 2005 rezoning agreement with the Greenpoint-Williamsburg community, New York City should turn its attention to completing Bushwick Inlet Park, which can be a spectacular public space for the entire city.

[NYguy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/nyregion/monitor-point-ship-real-estate.html

A Little Museum and a 56-Story Tower
The U.S.S. Monitor took part in an important Civil War battle. Near where it was built, a battle over a development project is heating up.


By James Barron
April 27, 2026

For 30 years, longer than they have been married, George Weinmann and Janice Lauletta-Weinmann have been enthusiastic backers of a Brooklyn nonprofit. Its mission is to commemorate the U.S.S. Monitor, famous for fighting a Confederate ship known as the Merrimack to a draw in the Civil War.

“We say that’s a victory,” George Weinmann said.

The nonprofit, the Greenpoint Monitor Museum, has never had a building to call its own. But it has one valuable asset: a vacant lot steps from where the Monitor was built.

The Weinmanns have tied that acre of land to a proposed apartment complex that would include a 56-story building. That would be far taller than allowed under the current zoning, thanks to development rights that the museum group is set to transfer. The building and two others would mostly occupy the lot next to the museum’s land, currently the site of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority garage.

Together, the three buildings would have almost 1,150 apartments, 40 percent of which would be affordable. The developers also promise a home for the museum.

But first the project, known as Monitor Point, must be approved by the city.

Last month it won an approval recommendation from Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, though he called for changes that would make at least 100 more units affordable, bringing the percentage of affordable apartments in Monitor Point to just under half. His decision came a month after the local community board voted 24 to 9 in favor of the project.

The City Planning Commission, which held a public hearing on Monitor Point last month, will weigh in next. If it approves the plan, Monitor Point will go to the City Council for another hearing and a vote.

On Saturday, opponents of Monitor Point gathered for a rally at the site. The group that organized the event, Save the Inlet, has collected 5,400 signatures on a petition that calls Monitor Point a “betrayal” of a 2005 rezoning that “promised this land would serve as a buffer and transition zone — not high-rise towers.”

The petition also says that Monitor Point would threaten “a rare ecological treasure,” the adjacent Bushwick Inlet, just as a long-planned city park there is being completed. The developers say that Monitor Point would provide the “missing tooth of connectivity” for a waterfront path from Greenpoint to Williamsburg. Monitor Point would also pay the city $300,000 a year for maintenance of the park.

[NYguy]

https://brooklyneagle.com/387637/bushwick-inlet-tower-project-approved-by-city-planning-commission/

Bushwick Inlet tower project approved by City Planning Commission


By Brooklyn Eagle Staff
May 18, 2026

The Monitor Point project, which would consist of two towers hosting 1,150 new units and a museum for the USS Monitor, along with public space, has split area residents.

Some say the complex’s 460 affordable units are badly needed and that it would create union jobs, while others argue that the 600- and 450-foot towers would burden the cramped neighborhood and that the space along the inlet’s northern shore, currently housing a Metropolitan Transportation Authority facility, would be better used as an addition to Bushwick Inlet Park, or should be fully affordable housing. The MTA also has said it needs the money that developer Gotham Organization would pay to lease the land. Environmental groups have raised concerns about the effects of the towers on the inlet’s ecosystem.

Area Councilmember Lincoln Restler, whose backing would be critical for getting the project through the Council, has said he would not approve of the project unless Gotham commits to making 50% of apartments affordable at 60% of the area median income, up from the current 40% and the previous 25% proposals.

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso earlier gave his support under the condition of 50% affordability, but has said he’d be willing to reconsider, and cautioned opponents that the site’s conditions make development options limited. Restler is also asking for increased funding for Bushwick Inlet Park, to which Gotham has committed $300,000.