Greenpoint’s 1940s West Street water tower comes down for Mendy Schwimmer’s 99 apartments, on a lot where tests found arsenic
The 100,000-gallon steel tower is among the last traces of a lot that held a brass foundry as early as 1887 and a printing facility by 1942. It is not yet clear when it comes down, and a cleanup comes before any new building.
Greenpoint’s 1940s West Street water tower comes down for Mendy Schwimmer’s 99 apartments, on a lot where tests found arsenic
The 100,000-gallon steel tower is among the last traces of a lot that held a brass foundry as early as 1887 and a printing facility by 1942. It is not yet clear when it comes down, and a cleanup comes before any new building.
The elevated steel water tower that has stood over Greenpoint’s West Street waterfront since the 1940s is set to be removed to make way for a new nine-story, 99-unit residential building, the city Department of Buildings has confirmed, Greenpointers reported October 21.
The tower sits on a paved parking lot at 70 West Street, a parcel also identified in state records as 72 West Street, on West Street near Milton Street and next to the city’s American Playground. Developer Mendy Schwimmer filed plans for the building with the Department of Buildings on June 11, city records show.
The filings describe a nine-story mixed-use building with a cellar and 99 residential dwelling units, totaling about 105,210 square feet of construction floor area. Shmuel Wieder, of S. Wieder Architect P.C., is the architect of record. The records also list Yossel Lichtman and the firm Rogers Builders and Development. The main new-building application remained under review with objections as of mid-September, while the Department of Buildings approved a curb cut and a temporary construction fence for the site in October.
The water tower stands on the same lot, Block 2565, Lot 60, and the applications filed for the project include a structural-work application for the tower’s removal, a department representative…
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