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Though the real estate boom is over in Williamsburg, it's apparently still roaring in Greenpoint. A first time developer and former attorney to Donald Trump revealed his plan this week to construct a 47-story high rise on the waterfront that would tower over nearby North Brooklyn skyscrapers like the Edge and Northside Piers by 17 floors.
Suffice to say, it greatly exceeds current zoning laws and he'll need multiple city approvals before getting the greenlight to begin the megaproject — which calls for two riverside residential towers with retail space, and demapping sections of Java Street and India Street to build a park with a beach, sand dunes, wetlands, an amphitheather and a dock that could accommodate water taxis.
According to Curbed and Brownstoner, the proposal to bring thousands of new apartments to a section of Brooklyn where condos projects are ailing "has a whole bunch of factors already going against it" and "seems so 2006." That said, developer Jonathan Bernstein promised a Community Board committee last week that his over-sized project would be a big plus to the neighborhood. “We are asking for radical changes to the zoning, but we do think it’s way different than anything that’s been proposed on the waterfront,” he said. “We think it will be a gateway to Manhattan and Greenpoint.”
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It's a game. Propose something that's deliberately 10 stories more than you want to build, let the community groups lop off the ten floors, win approval, and wait for the market to come around. This garbage will open in 2017, if ever.
Developer Jonathan Bernstein can propose anything he wants. I have no idea where on Earth he thinks he can get the financing after so many banks, institutions, countries and people around the world were ruined by the last bust. The glut of unsold real estate around metro NYC isn't helping his case.
Hey Jonathan Bernstein, on behalf of Brooklyn, fuck you.
greenpoint is such a nice'hood.
the idea that this could happen is so depressing.
what i do not understand is how all of these new residents will get to Manhattan.
The G train??? Are you kidding me?
The L is crowded enough now in the morning...imagine if all of these condos all over Williamsburg were filled and then this one goes in...how the hell would this neighborhood accomodate that many NEW residents???
Duh -
They would take their yachts, sailboats and skiffs per the rendering.
Jeez - have you ever even been to Greenpoint?
could i still use my hovercraft?
Oh of course!
Perhaps I shall meet you on the shores of the Newtown Creek. What say you! A race for the ages - your hovercraft vs. my autogyro.
Huzah!
This guy is either delusional or masochistic.
Still, the idea of taking my sailboat that has been chained up so sadly to a nearby parking sign directly to work gives me hope!
yawn. no way the nimbys ever let this happen.
Yeah because that worked so well for them during the 2005 re-zoning of the waterfront?