One Blue Slip

The first market-rate building finished at Greenpoint Landing, One Blue Slip marked the moment northern Greenpoint, long a neighborhood of low-rise row houses, warehouses and Polish shops, began adding high-rise housing along the river. Brookfield Properties developed the 30-story tower at 1 Blue Slip, completed in 2018, and its 359 apartments include a share of income-restricted units. It takes its name from one of the old ship slips on the site, and for renters the appeal is new construction with direct waterfront access in one of Brooklyn’s most established neighborhoods.

Greenpoint Landing is a large mixed-income development on roughly 22 acres of former industrial waterfront where Newtown Creek meets the East River, built after the 2005 rezoning of the Greenpoint and Williamsburg shoreline and planned to reach about 5,500 apartments. One Blue Slip stands on its newly built streets with public esplanade and open space between it and the river, looking across at Midtown Manhattan and Roosevelt Island.

The India Street NYC Ferry landing is directly below the site, the G train at Greenpoint Avenue is a walk inland, and the Franklin Street and Manhattan Avenue commercial strips are a few blocks east.