# 56 Quay Street, Brooklyn

Vacant land · Block 2590, Lot 25.

On Umarelli: https://umarelli.org/nyc/3025900025/56-quay-street

More construction in Greenpoint: https://umarelli.org/nyc/brooklyn/greenpoint.md

## Building permits

No building permits on file for this lot.

## Property taxes

- Assessment: $2,680,200
- 2026–27 tax: $259,369
- Market value (city estimate): $5,956,000
- Taxable value: $2,390,940
- Assessed land: $2,680,200

## Zoning

R8: floor area ratio 0.00 built, 6.02 allowed by base zoning.

## Flood zone

Current FEMA flood map: zone AE, high risk: a 1% chance of flooding each year, base flood elevation 10 ft (NGVD29). FEMA’s preliminary map: zone AE, high risk: a 1% chance of flooding each year, base flood elevation 12 ft (NAVD88).

## Board and land use applications

- Monitor Point (City Planning 2024K0358): Zoning map change, Zoning text change, Special permit, Certification, Completed, filed Sep 18, 2025, decided Jun 30, 2026. A LSGD, ZM, ZR, a Chair Cert, and a City Map Amendment (see 2025K0287), to facilitate the development of a new 33,000 gsf Museum and educational facility, and two additional new buildings with approximately 877,88 gsf of residential space…
- Monitor Point - 56 Quay Demapping (City Planning 2025K0287): City map change, Completed, filed Jun 17, 2025, decided Jun 30, 2026. A City Map Amendment by GO Quay LLC and Greenpoint Monitor Museum to remove a Park designation on BK Block 2590, Lot 25, which is privately owned by the Greenpoint Monitor Museum (not parkland owned by the City), in order to facilitate the…

## In the news

[Three-Tower, 1,324-Unit Monitor Point Complex Approved for 40-56 Quay Street In Greenpoint, Brooklyn](https://newyorkyimby.com/2026/07/three-tower-1324-unit-monitor-point-complex-approved-for-40-56-quay-street-in-greenpoint-brooklyn.html), New York YIMBY, Jul 18, 2026.

From New York City and Jersey City public records, refreshed within a day of each release. Sources: https://umarelli.org/sources. Methodology and corrections: https://umarelli.org/methodology
