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Just as leasing for the first Greenpoint Landing tower gets underway, the plan's second high-rise has erupted out of the ground. Rising directly across a cul-de-sac from its nearly finished sister building, One Blue Slip, Two Blue Slip (aka 41 Blue Slip) will climb 38 floors, 400-feet-tall above the Greenpoint waterfront.
Developed by Brookfield Properties and the Park Tower Group, the market-rate tower will accommodate 421 apartments according to building permits filed in 2015. Handel Architects is responsible for the design and a new drawing posted on-site shows a factory-inspired exterior of gridded windows atop a brick base. The uppermost floors are recessed and will be wrapped in a curving glass facade.
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Like its sister building, nearly all apartments will have water views. Permits note that the building will have ground-floor retail, bike parking, an amenity floor, and a shared outdoor terrace. Also listed is an underground parking garage for 190 cars - a sad necessity for the transit-starved neighborhood. Older renderings of Greenpoint Landing have hinted that ferry service may be coming to the project, but no official announcement has been made. Currently, there is a NYC Ferry slip six blocks south on India Street that provides easy (and cheap) commutes up and down the East River.
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Recapturing land formerly used for parking and light-industrial uses, the plan will include a public waterfront park and esplanade designed by Field Operations with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline. The two Blue Slip buildings rise near the eastern end of the 22-acre master plan. Just inland, there are three completed affordable-housing buildings totaling roughly 300 units. Back in May, the developers announced an additional two towers with 1,240 apartments coming to a cost of $1 billion. Thirty percent of the apartments will be designated affordable and construction is set to begin in 2019.
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