New York City's vision of replacing Greenpoint's contaminated industrial shoreline with green spaces and a community of luxury towers remains incomplete — and may now be threatened by sea level rise.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.It's been 18 years since New York City rezoned Greenpoint's waterfront, and local residents are still waiting for the green spaces they were promised. The city’s vision of replacing a contaminated industrial shoreline with a new community of luxury apartment towers remains incomplete — and may now be threatened by sea level rise.
In 2005, the New York City Council passed a massive rezoning across 175 blocks of Greenpoint and nearby Williamsburg, which was spearheaded by then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The rezoning was intended to spur residential growth along the East River by allowing real estate developers to remediate polluted industrial sites and replace them with enormous luxury apartment towers. Bonuses were given to towers that included affordable housing.
“It’s hard to know how the neighborhood is going to absorb more people,” said state Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, who represents theComparing the speed of development in Williamsburg and Greenpoint after the rezoning illustrates Gallagher's point. Greenpoint’s rezoning is expected to bring tens of thousands of new residents to the neighborhood, but between 2010 and 2020, just 2,203 people moved into the neighborhood, according tofrom the NYC Department of City Planning.
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