Gotham Point

Client Gotham & Riseboro Community Partnership
Location New York City, NY
Status Completed in 2022

This two-tower project creates a new presence on the city's skyline, and a visual marker for the Hunter's Point South community.

Gotham Point is a new million square foot development on the waterfront of the Hunter's Point South neighborhood in Queens. The two-tower project was developed by Gotham and senior housing developer Riseboro Community Partnership.

The project marks the last major development in the transformation of this waterfront area of Long Island City into a vibrant and sustainable mixed-use community, which to-date has included infrastructure and roadway improvements, a waterfront park, a new school, and thousands of new residences.

The newest Hunter's Point South towers include 1,132 units, 75% of which are designated affordable, distributed between a 58-story and a 34-story tower. Nearly 100 units have been set aside specifically for seniors. Residents have spectacular views of the Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn skylines.

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The new towers emerge from Hunter's Point South Park, a new 10-acre park that lines the waterfront.

The buildings have been designed to embrace the park as much as possible, with indoor/outdoor spaces that spill into the landscaping, and an interiors approach based on the plantings found in the park.

The bigger tower includes separate entrances for the apartments and the senior units, as well as a through-block community facility space. The smaller tower includes entrances for its own residential units, as well as community spaces for Flux Factory and for kayak-rental.

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The buildings include a mix of housing types, including affordable, market-rate, and dedicated senior units.

Residential amenities include a fitness center, a variety of outdoor areas, lounges, and co-working spaces. The senior units will have their own dedicated amenities, including lounge, library, community space, and outdoor patio. A rooftop urban farm will be publicly accessible.

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The shaping and materiality of both buildings was selected to relate to the variety of buildings that have been built along the Queens waterfront.

The upper base of the taller tower rises to varying heights along all sides, creating a sense of rhythm. Glass reveals break apart the massing. A sharply angled form emphasizes the tower's top and marks the building on the skyline.

In contrast, the smaller tower is more rectilinear, with a series of reveals that cut into the massing and break it apart. The rooftop of the Manhattan-facing side is carved away to create a terrace that will be useable by residents of both towers.

The two parcels are separated by a new school and by 2nd Street, enough distance that each tower needed its own visual identity.

Three varying colors of red brick define the volumes while providing visual coherence. The taller tower is “wrapped” on the northeast and southwest corners by a red brick lattice, expressed with oversized rectangular openings. The upper base of the smaller tower is primarily a mix of red brick, with glass reveals breaking up the massing. The dark brick and white metal panel of the tower defines the building architecturally. The language of the tower also breaks apart the upper base on the south facing elevation, and is carried all the way to the street.

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Awards

2021 Community Impact Award - New York Housing Conference

Press

May 30,2023 - NY YIMBY Interiors Revealed For Gotham Point’s North Tower In Long Island City, Queens Read Apr 24,2023 - NY YIMBY Gotham Point’s North Tower Completes Construction In Hunters Point South, Queens Read Feb 21,2023 - LIC Post Gotham Point Two-Tower Development Opens on LIC Waterfront, Officials Hold Ribbon-Cutting Read Nov 16,2022 - Real Estate Weekly The Gotham Organization and RiseBoro Community Partnership Celebrate the Completion and Opening of Gotham Point in Long Island City Read Aug 18,2022 - NY YIMBY Gotham Point North Tower’s Façade Nears Completion In Hunters Point South, Queens Read Jul 29,2022 - NY YIMBY Housing Lottery Launches For Gotham Point North Tower At 1-15 57th Avenue In Long Island City, Queens Read Dec 02,2021 - NY YIMBY Façade Work Progresses On Gotham Point’s ‘Parcel F’ In Hunters Point South, Queens Read Oct 19,2021 - Global Design News Handel Architects’ two-tower scheme creates a new presence on New York’s skyline as a visual marker for the Hunter’s Point South community Read Oct 14,2021 - Field Condition Construction Update: Gotham Point at Hunters Point South Read Oct 05,2021 - NY YIMBY Gotham Point’s 57-Story ‘Parcel F’ Tops Out In Hunters Point South, Queens Read Sep 16,2021 - NY YIMBY New Renderings Revealed For Gotham Point Two-Tower Project In Hunters Point South, Queens Read Sep 14,2021 - 6sqft See the 1,100-unit Gotham Point towers coming to the Long Island City waterfront Read Sep 14,2021 - Real Estate Weekly Gotham unveils huge rent stabilized Gotham Point development Read Jul 31,2021 - NY YIMBY Handel Architects’ 34-Story ‘Parcel G’ Nears Completion In Hunters Point South, Queens Read Nov 16,2017 - The Wall Street Journal New York City Picks Developers for Queens Mixed-Use Complex Read

Scope

Design Architect Architect of Record Interior Designer

Project Team

Alex Kim, Amar Sen, Angeline Jacques, Anita Helfrich, Ankur Verma, Anthony Prograis, Boden Davies, Carolina Clemente, Derek Chen, Emma Ferguson, Esteban Penzo, Gary Handel, Hsin-Yin Tu, Hyungjoon Kim, Jonathan Morefield, Joong Koum Kim, Juhyun Kim, Kai-Yu Yu, Krista Armstrong, Leo Mulvehill, Mark Yu-Chen Lien, Melanie Sage, Nathalia Camacho, Nicolas Nefiodow Pineda, Octavio Miranda, Rachael Kalousdian, Robin Zhang, Ruicong Tang, Ryan Daniusus, Sejal Bahety, Sam Douglas, Seung Baik, Shengkhan Zhang, Shridhuli Solanki, Solene Clavel, Yuan Yu Chen

Photography and Visualizations

Lester Ali VUW