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Fort Greene Park Group Claims New Tower Will Bring Too Much Shade, Too Many Dogs
Spaces
|Sep 11, 2025
Fort Greene Park Group Claims New Tower Will Bring Too Much Shade, Too Many Dogs
It’s a dog-eat-park world out there. That is, of course, if we’re to take the Fort Greene Park Conservancy for its word (and, just so we’re clear, there is, so far, nothing to suggest we shouldn’t) about the impact of a proposed high-rise residential tower at the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenues. According to…
Is Brooklyn Tower Getting Another "Eyesore" Next Door?
Spaces
|May 13, 2025
Is Brooklyn Tower Getting Another "Eyesore" Next Door?
Brooklyn Tower, the borough’s tallest and emptiest high-rise, could be getting a new, barely smaller neighbor. According to Gothamist, Mayor Eric Adams floated a proposal at a recent forum with top real estate brass for a new building at 395 Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, a bustling corner facing Brooklyn Paramount to the south and Junior’s…
Residents of Near-Empty Brooklyn Tower Say The Luxury Building is "Quite Peaceful"
Spaces
|Mar 12, 2025
Residents of Near-Empty Brooklyn Tower Say The Luxury Building is "Quite Peaceful"
Perhaps you’ve taken a stroll in Fort Greene Park or across Fulton and happened to look up at the gothic monstrosity that is Brooklyn Tower in the last few months. You probably noticed the bleak and—until relatively recently—scaffolding-skirted mass jutting out from the Downtown Brooklyn skyline like a sword from an impaled body. Maybe you…
