"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 past 15 years, while they are still waiting for a park promised two decades ago."
A proposal by Gotham Organization would lease MTA land on Quay Street to build a 1,150-unit apartment complex with buildings up to 600 feet tall across from Bushwick Inlet Park. The adjacent 28-acre greenspace was a central promise of a 2005 rezoning that reshaped Greenpoint and Williamsburg but remains unfinished because of ongoing legal battles and toxic cleanup issues. Opponents cite insufficient affordable housing and ecological disruption and link the project to broader neighborhood frustrations over rapid high-rise development. Gotham revised its offer to make roughly 40% of units affordable, about 460 apartments, after local pushback.
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