Two Blue Slip

Two Blue Slip is a rental apartment tower at 2 Blue Slip in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, developed by Brookfield Properties. It stands beside One Blue Slip as part of Greenpoint Landing, the large waterfront development on the former industrial land where Newtown Creek meets the East River, which combines market-rate and permanently affordable apartments.

The tower faces the river across new public open space and esplanade, with long views south to Williamsburg and west to Midtown Manhattan. The India Street NYC Ferry landing sits directly below the development, the G train at Greenpoint Avenue is a walk east, and Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint’s main commercial street, runs a few blocks inland. WNYC Transmitter Park is immediately adjacent.

Completed in 2020, the 40-story tower holds 421 apartments, including a share of income-restricted units. Greenpoint Landing, roughly 22 acres of former industrial waterfront, was made possible by the 2005 rezoning of the Greenpoint and Williamsburg shoreline, and its master plan calls for about 5,500 apartments when complete, around a quarter of them affordable, along with a continuous public waterfront park.

Two Blue Slip followed One Blue Slip as one of the first market-rate towers at Greenpoint Landing, and the two set the pattern for the rest of the development: slim towers rising beside the water, with lower buildings lining the new streets behind them.