Greenpoint Brooklyn Hotel rentering; Image credit FXFOWLE Architects
The DUMBOtization of the Greenpoint waterfront continues, and the ravaged buildings that comprised the Greenpoint Terminal Market are coming back to life. A decade after a 10-alarm blaze gutted several of the complex’s vacant warehouses, a sprawling red-brick building has been rehabbed into an event and gallery space; nearby, a hunkering 5-story warehouse at 42 West Street is being converted into offices. Now, construction is slowly progressing on the conversion of 60-62 West Street into a 155-room hotel designed by FXFowle Architects.
The developers are Guttman family’s Pearl Realty Management, who filed permits for the hotel conversion and single-floor addition in late 2015. The soon-to-be nine story structure is located between Milton and Noble Streets and runs halfway through the block to the American Playground. The building is roughly two avenues west of G-train's Greenpoint Avenue station, and one block inland from the East River waterfront. The site is also one block south of the new condominium 50 Greenpoint, which has just launched sales on 10 of its units.
Construction progress at 60-62 West Street as of October; CityRealty
A new page has been published on FXFowle’s website giving us a look at the hotel’s revamped exterior. Per their project page, “The former concrete-frame rope manufacturing warehouse is transformed into a singular hotel; weaving nautical and industrial history with contemporary comforts and playful elegance.” The only rendering provided shows a Milton Street viewpoint, revealing that a preexisting sheet-metal wing will be substantially reduced to give way to a shallow plaza and a bricked structure, adorned with a green wall. New windows and white paint will reface the current gray exterior and a yellow-colored shaft will run through the building, culminating with a small observatory.
Looking up the West Street facade, CityRealty
The floor schedule, submitted to the Department of Buildings, shows the ground-floor will hold a restaurant; the second will have a bar area and a fitness center; and floors, third through eighth, will hold between 16 and 28 rooms per floor. There will be a rooftop bar, swimming pool and terrace crowning the building, offering sweeping views of Manhattan’s east side skyline.
Luggage trunks, rivets, and ropes are incorporated throughout the interiors to recreate romantic notions of travel, sparked by Greenpoint's rich history of shipbuilding and the nearby East River waterfront. In addition, earthy woods, polished metals, millwork, velvet, and woven textiles will further embody the spirit of Greenpoint and New York collectively.
Google Earth image showing location of 62 West Street; CityRealty
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