Save the Bushwick Inlet - Say No to the 40 Quay Monitor Point Rezoning
NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler, Brooklyn Community Board 1, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, NYC Planning Commission
Your park is under threat! Please take action.
Bushwick Inlet Park is a 27-acre public park New York City promised during the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront Rezoning to provide relief for the planned surge of residential development that was then about to be built on our North Brooklyn waterfront.
Two decades later the Gotham Organization is proposing a grossly oversized luxury tower complex on the park’s northern boundary just 50’ from Bushwick Inlet. But first Gotham will need an upzoning.
We must band together to stop it!
Please Sign the petition below (with your own text added if you like) to demand our council member and other stakeholders reject this proposal.
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NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler, Brooklyn Community Board 1, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, NYC Planning Commission
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We, the undersigned, urge Council Member Lincoln Restler and all ULURP stakeholders to vote NO—without conditions—on the upzoning of 40 Quay Street.
This is a giveaway of public land to a private developer proposing three luxury towers 21, 41 and 56 stories tall just 50 feet from the shoreline of Bushwick Inlet, one of the East River’s only natural tidal estuaries.
This land belongs to the public and must serve the public good, not private luxury development.
We urge Council Member Lincoln Restler and other ULURP stakeholders to vote “NO without conditions” on the Monitor Point upzoning.
Why We Oppose This Plan:
1) Violates the 2005 rezoning agreement which promised this land would serve as a buffer and transition zone—not high-rise towers.
2) Steals parkland by requesting the city to remove park designation from an adjoining property to allow high-rise towers.
3) Ruins Bushwick Inlet just as the surrounding park is being completed (after 20 years!) by turning the park and inlet into luxury amenities for luxury tenants.
4) Luxury housing accelerates displacement, raises rents, and has failed to make communities including ours more affordable.
5) Threatens a rare ecological treasure—Bushwick Inlet is a vital natural habitat in NYC’s harbor and home to diverse wildlife.
6) Adds 1,200 mostly luxury units to an overbuilt neighborhood with many more towers planned and without any infrastructure upgrades to support the increased density.
7) Irresponsible planning that adds thousands of units to a coastal flood zone and devastates resiliency during a climate emergency.
This is not just bad planning—it’s the betrayal of a community promise made in good faith. Public land must serve the public good, not private luxury development.