35 Commercial Street is a new 100% affordable residential building at Greenpoint Landing, a 22-acre waterfront site in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. The project is one of a number of new buildings transforming this formerly industrial area into a thriving new neighborhood. 35 Commercial contains 374 residences, bicycle parking, a fitness room, children’s play area, storage room, and retail. 57 units have been set-aside for formerly homeless applicants, and those units include assistance with furnishings, as well as ongoing social services provided via a partnership with non-profit social service organization Breaking Ground.
The goal at 35 Commercial was to celebrate Greenpoint’s predominantly brick character by using brick in ways that are both traditional and unexpected. Brick was used not only to honor and reinterpret Greenpoint’s character, but also for its warmth, and the way it creates the feeling of a sense of home for the 374 families that live here.
