I agree, this region has enough grey days like today already, we don’t need our buildings to be grey too!
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If you have NY1 they had a segment on this development.
While the building needs city approval it seems as Two Trees is already building part of the park. The segment said it would open in the summer.
Edit: Link to the segment;
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Thanks for sharing!
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This is FABULOUS NEWS! I feared that this project would be Amazoned.
Completion by 2030 
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Rip. That’s the same time frame as 175 Park Avenue, a 1,600ft+ skyscraper in midtown manhattan, plus they have to demolish a pretty big building already. Why is this going to take so long?
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Until 2030 to build what’s not even supertalls? Not even worth following this right now. Next…
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This is the same developer of the Domino Sugar mass development next door, which is also proceeding at a glacial pace. Slow-walking projects seems to be their thing.
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Last night, Community Board 1 voted to approve River Ring, but with changes that were more than a little extreme.
It’ll have to get 33 percent smaller to reduce local infrastructure strain. The affordability will have to rise to 50 percent. Two Trees will have to install geothermal heating instead of a fossil-fuel system, redesign the towers to be more “contextual” (whatever that might mean, given that the Williamsburg waterfront is basically a string of glassy high-rises at this point), and coax the city, finally, to fund and complete Bushwick Inlet Park. Also, Two Trees will be required to fund — in perpetuity! — a “local independent agency or organization to oversee and enforce the rental fees and increases of affordable and market-rate apartments.”
I know that the community board votes are only advisory and that they are supposed to show what the “community” thinks of the project, but for fuck sake it is tiring to go through all of that NIMBY nonsense each time.
They want more housing so what is the best thing to do in their minds, to force developer to cut 33% of all housing units.
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All of those demands are ridiculous. I have no interest whatsoever in this project anymore since it will surely end up as a pair of 500 ft glass boxes like most of the other ugly riverfront developments. The developers were being quite generous already. There was ample public space, tons of much-needed housing, and an interesting design in their original proposal. Now that the CB has killed it, they should take their ball and go home: say screw this project and build a warehouse or parking garage there instead. It’s what this “community” deserves.
Now now, remember that CB is only advisory. But yes I agree with the overall sentiment, the mood for this project has turned sour.
And now, the wonderful Eric Adams will begin to make his verdict on this project. You thought %33 was a huge hit for River Ring? Let’s wait and hear Adam’s chop to %50…… SMH.
I wonder what they are referring to as “33%”, though - the bulk or the height?
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Bring back the rust-color facade!
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Love this proposal but didn’t they say this was going to take a decade to build? That’s glacial.
This is an amazing proposal.
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