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Demolition is now complete at the adjacent sites of 80 Flatbush Avenue and 100 Flatbush Avenue in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The narrow plot of 80 Flatbush Avenue will eventually give rise to an 840-foot-tall skyscraper while the triangular lot of 100 Flatbush Avenue will be the future home a 482-foot-tall mixed-use building, both part of a multi-structure mixed-use complex designed by Alloy Development
Rendering of 100 Flatbush. Rendering by Alloy Development
291 Livingston Street Tops Out In Downtown Brooklyn
The 189-foot-tall, 22-story reinforced concrete edifice of 291 Livingston Street appears to have recently topped out. YIMBY last covered the Downtown Brooklyn building several years ago and reported that this will become a 100-key hotel. Hello Living is the owner of the lot after purchasing the site for $11.1 million, and is developing the project with Aview Equities. Gene Kaufman Architect is the architect of record.
Supertall 9 DeKalb Avenue Begins Long-Awaited Ascent In Downtown Brooklyn
Construction is finally about to go vertical at 9 DeKalb Avenue, the first supertall skyscraper in the outer boroughs. Designed by SHoP Architects and developed by JDS, the Downtown Brooklyn residential tower will stand 1,066 feet above the neighborhood.
Demolition Work For 550-Foot-Tall Skyscraper At 570 Fulton Street Appears Stalled In Downtown Brooklyn
Demolition work has stalled at 570 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the site of a proposed 550-foot-tall skyscraper designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Slate Property Group. Scaffolding and blue netting still shroud the main façade of the existing building, and it appears that little progress has been made since YIMBY’s January visit. As planned, the new development would yield a mixture of market-rate apartments, affordable housing, retail, and small-scale office space
They could easily if instead of making a giant second terminal under Grand Central, MTA had gone with making a through-running segment down Manhattan and into Atlantic Terminal. There's actually already a rail tunnel under Atlantic Ave that potentially could have been partly repurposed. They can still do it, though that'd make the giant secondary terminal at Grand Central incredibly wasteful.
The only place where MTA has ready capacity to expand service immediately in downtown Brooklyn (provided there is the rolling stock and operators) is through the Montague Street Tunnel which the R train currently uses and has slack capacity. MTA has two options in terms of easy expansion of services through the Montague Street Tunnel and down to the BMT 4th Avenue Line. One is to expand W service to have all trains go through the Montague Street Tunnel and the other is to expand J/Z service to do the same since those lines also link to the Montague Street Tunnel.
Rutgers Street Tunnel that the F train runs in also has slack capacity, but then quickly runs into bottlenecks as soon as it merges with the M in Manhattan or with the G train in Brooklyn. You might be able to in a fairly short amount of time (considering how long it takes to build infrastructure in the US) to potentially overcome that bottleneck on the Manhattan side by having crossover tracks going railroad south of the 2nd Avenue station so you can use it as a terminus on the center "express" tracks that are currently unused and then the lower and on the Brooklyn side by using the unused Culver Line express tracks.
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I was grateful to see redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn starting back in the 90's.
Wonderful developers with wonderful ideas took a crummy neighborhood and beautified it.
I spoke to soon. Once greedy developers stepped in, Brooklyn is now a mess of concrete.
I can only look at those responsible for over development of Downtown Brooklyn
with great disdain as their greed takes a Brooklyn neighborhood from crummy to
beautiful to out right disgusting.
Shame on all responsible for turning Brooklyn into TRYON.
Tryon's Rat Experiment.........1942 ......Live and Learn numb nuts...........
This is way too much happening to fast. I hate how they are basically getting rid of just about every single building in that area and just replacing them with skyscrapers. Same thing over at LIC. es.
This is way too much happening to fast. I hate how they are basically getting rid of just about every single building in that area and just replacing them with skyscrapers. Same thing over at LIC. es.
It’s not wholesale destruction at least. There were also a lot of post-war buildings and parking lots or structures that these are replacing which weren’t really great historical structures.
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