Big New Pier AND Ferry Coming to Greenpoint!

Looking west from Greenpoint. (John Del Signore/Gothamist)

For anyone who's ever gazed wistfully across the East River from Greenpoint on a Monday morning and thought, "If I just had a jet ski I'd be at work by now," here's good news: The NYC Economic Development Corp. [NYCEDC] has put out a request for proposals for a ferry station and a pier on the river in northwest Greenpoint!

The city is looking for a developer to design and reconstruct a new pier structure on a mostly underwater 17,880 square foot parcel of land situated at the western terminus of Java Street, and to have it ready within two years of signing a contract. The pier will be complimented by a ferry station at the end of India Street, which is one block north. (Earlier today, The NY Post ~~erroneously~~ reported that there would be two piers built, but we're told by the NYCEDC that India Street will just be a ferry landing. [UPDATE: It looks like we were misinformed by the NYCEDC spokesman. According to the DEC, a pier is in the works for India Street.)

"We look forward to responses that will seek to rejuvenate an underutilized portion of the Greenpoint waterfront and will allow local residents and visitors to access the waterfront. Revitalizing the City’s waterfronts is a top priority of NYCEDC," says David Lombino, an NYCEDC spokesman. "Oh HELL yes," says everyone in Greenpoint fed up with the G>L transfer.

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By John Del Signore in News on July 13, 2010 2:48 PM

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hellogreg

Let's face it: g'point has been "over" for years. Rents are way overpriced, lux condos everywhere, and all the new businesses opening on frankiln are clearly for aimed at the affluent yup/hip/faux/bo. Maybe a private heliport would make more sense.

Shinobi Shaw

Greenpoint has always had the potential but the lousy G service makes it abhorrent to commute into! Maybe this will finally improve things in that area......

sssocialservice

suck it up..times are changing...and it's not like you didn't know this was gonna happen with all those AMAZING high rises going up

spiritross

G to L transfer?

Huh?

It's called the 7 train serving North Brooklyn for years.

jaycjay

Serving North Brooklyn without even entering Brooklyn, thanks to the G to 7 transfer!

John L

How much will it cost and how many firehouses will we have to shutdown, cops and teachers will have to be laid off, and other essential services cut to not only build this but subsidize it like the other ferries for a project that determining from the comments here the residents don't even want?

But I'm sure some buddies of Team Bloomberg have a nice parcel of land there already and have undoubtedly secured millions in tax payer subsidies to build some extravagant buildings that the area residents will not be able to afford, hence the need for a ferry to ship in affluent residents from Manhattan. Which will then drive up the prices for all renters in the neighborhood and they'll soon have to get the hell out anyway. But it will bring economic growth to the area, they say, and just think of all the minimum wage jobs with no benefits this will offer the community. Yippee!

Welcome to Bloomberg's new New York! Where only the rich and famous will do.

Sketto

Well, Greenpoint was good while it lasted. RIP.

spiritross

Well if it makes people like you leave then hey, we all could celebrate.

The Irish are back in Greenpoint.

Take note.

We were here and then left and now we are coming on strong.

chuzzlewit

will the new ferry be a glass bottom boat?

tallbuildings

Keep Greenpoint Isolated!

jaycjay

I really hope that this never happens. Thankfully, with the city's record in getting transportation projects done, there's a good chance it wouldn't be completed in my lifetime anyway... I can't have more than another 40 or 50 years to go.