10 Halletts Point

10 Halletts Point is a rental apartment building at 10 Halletts Point in Astoria, Queens, developed and managed by the Durst Organization. It stands on the Halletts Point peninsula, a spit of land reaching into the East River directly across the water from Roosevelt Island and the Upper East Side, and was the first tower completed in Durst’s multi-building plan for the site.

The peninsula is one of the more isolated residential pockets in western Queens: there is no subway station within easy walking distance, and the building relies instead on the NYC Ferry Astoria landing at the foot of the site and the Q69 and Q102 bus routes toward Astoria Boulevard and the N and W trains. Astoria Park and the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge are a walk north along the shoreline.

Completed in 2019, the 22-story building holds 404 apartments, including a share of income-restricted units. Durst’s Halletts Point plan calls for seven buildings in all, along with a new waterfront park and esplanade on the peninsula, a supermarket, and investment in the neighboring Astoria Houses, the public housing development that occupies much of the peninsula.

The rest of the plan is being built in phases, so for now the area feels like a neighborhood in progress. In return, residents have some of the best skyline and river views in Queens, the waterfront at the door, and a ferry ride to Manhattan that avoids the subway entirely.