NEW YORK | Greenpoint Landing | 10+ Towers | 400 FT+

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by RobEss

If memory serves, it's because LIC and it's surroundings are within the flight path of LaGuardia.

Yeah flight paths and also the FAA height limit cap on LIC. Essentially a blanket for the area. I believe up to 750-780'.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Just a general question, but are these Greenpoint (mid river) waterfront towers mostly limited to the 400' range due to their lack of proximity to the subway?

Those are the zoning height limits for most of those blocks. When the city rezoned the Greenpoint waterfront, it capped heights at 400 ft.

There are taller towers allowed, in Williamsburg, which is why you see 500 ft.+ towers going up in the Domino development, and even taller towers proposed to the immediate north, in that new two-towered inlet development.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Yeah flight paths and also the FAA height limit cap on LIC. Essentially a blanket for the area. I believe up to 750-780'.

There's no FAA height limit on LIC, it's case-by-case. So yeah, two 900-1000 ft. towers have been shorted to below 800 ft. due to FAA concerns, but every lot is different, so future outcomes could yield taller or shorter FAA limits.

But, in any case, I doubt LIC ever has a tower going well above 1,000 ft. It's too close to LGA flight patterns. I mean, unless airlines and/or the FAA change their policies re. takeoffs and landings.

[NYC2ATX]

Originally Posted by PeterQM

Oh wow, from the looks of those two full blocks south of the currently under construction Block D buildings, it looks like these may not be the only OMA designs on the Greenpoint waterfront.

[Hudson11]

the boom of the tower crane on 1 Bell Slip collapsed.

https://twitter.com/ctfirephoto/stat...81168192589826

[chris08876]

NYC has had its fare share of crane incidents lately. That and falling glass.

With great construction boom, comes higher probability of a boom boom incident or at least that's how the man in the Penn Station bathroom said it.

[NYguy]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLSvvyTB0fy/

[BuildThemTaller]

Took a few shots of Greenpoint Landing last evening (2/24)



It appears that they have taken part of the boom down that collapsed.

[jbermingham123]

Random thought: when do you think we'll start to see "second strings" of development along the east river... by this i mean further waves of development behind (relative to the river) these initial developments?

[BuildThemTaller]

Originally Posted by jbermingham123

Random thought: when do you think we'll start to see "second strings" of development along the east river... by this i mean further waves of development behind (relative to the river) these initial developments?

There are lots of developments in Greenpoint just to the west of these towers. It's just that most of them are along Kent and Manhattan Ave and are mid-rises of 6-8 stories max. There are some other lots near these towers and the northern end of Greenpoint that could be redeveloped. My guess is there might be another 5-10 years before we see developments there.

[chris08876]

Credit: JC_Heights

[chris08876]

Pics by me. Taken today.



Greenpoint - 03-20-2021 - 3 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr


Greenpoint - 03-20-2021 - 1 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr


Greenpoint - 03-20-2021 - 2 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr

[NYguy]

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[RobEss]

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[chris08876]

Credit: Bkhights

[chris08876]

baronsonphoto-20210326-051.jpg by Brian Aronson, on Flickr

[chris08876]

Credit: FC

[chris08876]

1 Bell Slip




Credit: Michael Young via NYY

[GertElim]

https://www.instagram.com/p/COgzD97gZjd/

Construction has topped out on 227 West Street, a pair of 30- and 40-story residential towers in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Designed by OMA with Beyer Blinder Belle as the architect of record and developed by Brookfield Property Partners and Park Tower Group, the towers are part of the 22-acre Greenpoint Landing development along the East River.

James Corner Field Operations is the landscape architect, DeSimone Consulting Engineers is the structural engineer, Thornton Tomasetti is the façade consultant, and Highbury Concrete is responsible for building the superstructures.

Photos show façade installation progressing on the pair of towers, which feature a dramatic cantilever and corresponding setbacks, creating a puzzle-piece effect.

At its pinnacle, the taller structure cantilevers 48 feet out from its base. Thirty percent of the 745 rentals is planned to be “income-targeted” apartments marketed in accordance with the Affordable Housing New York program.

Greenpoint Landing as a whole is planned to yield 5,500 residential units, with 1,400 designated for permanent affordable housing, 227 West street is likely going to be finished next year.

Photographs by https://www.instagram.com/mchlanglo793/

[NYguy]

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