In January we suggested groundbreaking might be imminent at 384 Bridge Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Boy, were we wrong! The planned tower remains a hole in the ground. But some renderings have popped up that we haven’t seen before on SLCE Architects’ website. The 49-story, 350-unit project received state money in exchange for the construction of affordable housing at the beginning of this year following some environmental and legal holdups. The most recent DOB permit for the site, issued in February, is for the installation of a temporary standpipe system. Click through for more renderings, including a few of the interior…
384 Bridge Street Gearing Up [Brownstoner] GMAP DOB





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  1. I disagree with the prior two posters. Fulton Street is not in Bruges, or Colonial Williamsburg. It is a contemporary, and not particularly picturesque, shopping street.
    In order for nice restaurants to thrive, at least some patrons would like the option of being dropped off by cab or car service, likewise shops that sell bulky items could give their customers the option to pick up by the door. A pedestrian road, though chi-chi in certain high style historic town centers, just kills commerce here in homey old Brooklyn. If you were opening up a restaurant or store would you pick a location where your customers had options other than walking or bus? Think about it. It’s not just about political correctness it is about business and how people with a little cash prefer to get around when its freezing or raining or blowing a gale or 99 degrees.
    was Fulton Street a better place when it was an open street? or when it was a closed street? The answer to that question is most definitely that Fulton Street’s period of greatest prosperity was before the urban-renewal-mall-for-the-peasants project foisted on it by the “Best and Brightest” of 1967.

  2. I’m sure there will be changes coming for Fulton mall. I hope they turn it back into a real street for starters. I saw the new little plaza in front of the DIme yesterday. This is the sort of third-rate public design Brooklyn is all too used to. The focal point of the plaza seems to be subway grating. Pathetic. Onward and forward. I hear the Forte is all sold out?

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