Posted June 21, 200717 yr i have been noticing some new real estate action around downtown brooklyn lately so i took my camera to work last week to take some shots. they are for inspiration i suppose, and maybe what not to do as well. :wink: sorry for the gloomy day (of course its been super nice since then). up first is from out my window at my work site, it's on flatbush & is called the oro residential tower, 36 stories i think http://orocondos.com/ oro from the street -- on flatbush zoom it old stuff -- ny dept of health in foreground, long island university/brooklyn building on left i like this building, i dk why the ratner's earlier project helped revive a moribund downtown - metrotech :whip: liu flag? it's an ok, tight little urban campus something new behind liu walking down flatbush and throwing some love to junior's, best cheesecake in town :clap: (if you cant get to brooklyn, they have a grand central food court stand too) fulton mall -- best place to get your bootleg baseball caps -- w/ the diamonds! :wink: ada compliant subway stop mista fulton what not to do with your block...as brought to you by the 60's-70's :x the kind of intersection that makes brooklyn cool :mrgreen: off flatbush, the forte condo tower in the bam cultural district (bam=brooklyn academy of music) http://fortecondo.com/forte_flash.html different angles first in the phonebook yeah boyeeee!!!!! ye olde tudor magic johnson is redoing the iconic williamsburgh bank tower into condos http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/04/20/old_williamsburgh_bank_tower_to_be_uncloaked_soon.php new and old here we are at the flatbush/atlantic/4th ave merge -- ground zero for development the new atlantic terminal mall...yep ratners again :-P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Terminal_Mall prepare yourself...across the street is... atlantic yards...boooo hisss (only because its in brooklyn, not the cleve where it should be)! :whip: :shoot: http://www.atlanticyards.com/ it will cover the railyard bye bye to this block most is crap, but they cant tear that beauty down can they? i know, i know :| sign on a teardown block freddy's backroom bar has been in the news as an anti-ratner rallying point moving on back downtown around atlantic nice human scale on this atlantic ave block empty lot, prob not for long new apts in front, do they know the brooklyn hoosegow next door is their neighbor & the unions have a beef? :laugh: http://www.75smith.com/ dayton ohio red alert! this deco building was the very first ncr store continuing west on altlantic, this new one is near smith http://dumbo-newyork.com/index.cfm?objectid=DAB00F62-3048-7098-AFF59475604993B3 across the street, bye bye gas station, hello...guess what? :roll: heading downtown, more new off atlantic on the brooklyn bridge approach across the street ^ future pesht style parking? i hope looking over from various state/hoyt/schemerhorn views all new modern rowhouses on state right next to the old style brownstones VS more old/new on state all new modern style public housing on hoyt/schermerhorn more modern mixed income/pj's to come rack'em newish mta building condo conversion of old board of ed building http://www.110livingston.com/flash/index.html new office tower sliver is seemlessly tied to the newish marriott hotel the heart of downtown, brooklyn borough hall brooklyn's new cesar pelli desgned federal courthouse tower, built just after cleveland's http://www.wirednewyork.com/brooklyn/federal_courthouse/ old st. george hotel brooklyn heights, has the subway, i just like it brooklyn hts promenade heading down into the dumbo nabe, dog run by the highway hard to resist these, there is not really a bad shot to be found down here very nicely modernized -- this is across the street from the river cafe old trolley tracks j condo tower, 33 stories http://www.jcondo.com/ finally, something a little wacky :roll: yeah that's how i feel about it all too :laugh: conversions and new *** so that's what's up in brooklyn development these days, who knows? maybe it could be inspiring to somebody like a local 3C ohio developer or something***
June 21, 200717 yr Cool! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 21, 200717 yr another brilliant mrnyc thread... great to see a cleveland company having such a big impact on nyc
June 21, 200717 yr yet parking lots still stand on public square another brilliant mrnyc thread... great to see a cleveland company having such a big impact on nyc would be greater to see them having a big impact on CLEVELAND
June 21, 200717 yr yet parking lots still stand on public square another brilliant mrnyc thread... great to see a cleveland company having such a big impact on nyc would be greater to see them having a big impact on CLEVELAND AMEN! I used to live on State St. I sooo glad I don't live there now.
June 21, 200717 yr damn, if they were building that much in Cleveland (or any city in Ohio for that matter)...it would be completely revolutionizing the place. In NYC, it's just another day..ho hum
June 21, 200717 yr Awesome shots! The last time I was in Brooklyn, I could spot many of the new developments from Interstate 278 and was amazed. Good to see this borough rise up from the stalemate it had been in for so long (IMO). Reminds me of NKU's campus. And I am changing my name to AAA Cahal.
June 21, 200717 yr i know we have an atlantic yards thread, but this news is fresh today so i'll put it here. this link explains how the ratners are doing the mega projects - tax breaks! http://www.observer.com/2007/421a-bill-gives-special-treatment-atlantic-yards atlantic yards demolition progress link: http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/06/ratner_demo_upd.php yet parking lots still stand on public square another brilliant mrnyc thread... great to see a cleveland company having such a big impact on nyc would be greater to see them having a big impact on CLEVELAND damn straight! thats one reason why i did this thread. be aware what they "are" doing when they cry they can't do anything in clevo. not that i would expect this scale necessarily, but absolutely nothing in downtown cleveland???? shame on fce. oh well enough about fce, hopefully other developers and homesteaders can be inspired by urban form like some of this stuff.
June 21, 200717 yr Great shots mrnyc! I love the nabes surrounding downtown Brooklyn, but I have to say, the downtown part itself is a total disaster and FC's office towers are not making it any better...just different. It seems like Manhattan just sucks the commercial wind out of Brooklyn despite Brooklyn's huge population.
July 3, 200717 yr ^ totally agree with that. it'll just be more people living in a rather unfocused/almost suburban styled downtown (albeit an old one). a cool flickr photo blog below, but first check this out about the forte condo above... :-o :-o :-o :-o Forté Condo is #1 With a Bullet Tuesday, July 3, 2007, by Joey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A little while back, when explaining some high maintenance fees, the Forté Condo gang took some shots at fellow Brooklyn developments such as J Condo, 110 Livingston and others. Well, some of those competitors may be firing back, in their own way. A tipster writes: "I was strolling down the street over there when it looks like someone put a bullet thru the window on one of the lower floors. Brings new meaning to 'welcome to the hood'." Guess that's why they call it the BAM Cultural District. · Forté Condo Explains Charges, Knocks Competition [Curbed] · Forté Gets Big in a Hurry, Puts on Its Exterior [Curbed] Reader Comments (12 extant) 1. good. scare those stupid cunts away. By master at July 3, 2007 9:41 AM2. Yes. Bravo! By Anonymous at July 3, 2007 10:03 AM3. i'm actually surprised there isn't more of this condo-buying-gentrification-hipster backlash type of activity. people are sooooooo sick of these ugly condos going up everywhere, closing down nyc institutions. you go to other cities in other countries and they actually preserve so much of their history and old charm, but not here. By squiggy at July 3, 2007 10:54 AM4. Yeah the vacant lot where forte once stood really meant something. Derelict buildings and stagnantion that's what a real city needs... By Anonymous at July 3, 2007 11:19 AM5. hey dope. (i mean number #4) who said anything about preserving vacant lots? you moron. you completely miss the point. By lenny at July 3, 2007 11:31 AM6. #3 other cities built all types of buildings in theri cities. Just like NYC does. Your bitchy NIMBY attitude sucks. Now I hope they arrest the punks who shot at the building. By Anonymous at July 3, 2007 11:43 AM7. very status quo and compliant of you #6. By anonymous at July 3, 2007 11:49 AM8. right #7, becuase if it was you child who was in there and got shot, you'd be sooooo thrilled with your neighbors. By common sense at July 3, 2007 12:04 PM9. Brooklyn is still Brooklyn. If you don't want to get shot, don't move there. By Anonymous at July 3, 2007 12:13 PM10. All new buildings suck. Landmark everything. I love vacant lots. Buck Fush! Free Mumia! By Emelia Diehardt at July 3, 2007 12:26 PM11. I would like to move to Brooklyn to get shot. Preferably somewhere close to the subway so that the shooters can escape via mass transit. By Anonymous at July 3, 2007 12:54 PM12. I was shot once, not that bad. its the ny experience. most of the people who write on these coments should be shot too. By foreal at July 3, 2007 1:30 PM http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/07/03/fort_condo_is_1_with_a_bullet.php _________________________________________________________________________ atlantic yards interactive flickr blog (interesting - i never saw flickr used like this before):
July 6, 200717 yr "yet parking lots still stand on public square" Which is owned by the Jacobs Group - I wish that FCE was building more here but put the blame where it belongs. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
July 6, 200717 yr Im gonna try and come up to nyc some time at the end of this summer. Make my pilgrimage...as an urbanist.
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