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The building coming to 340 Flatbush Extension — this is the site next door to Junior’s Cheesecake — will be taller than any other in Brooklyn at 775 feet and it will be designed by SHoP Architects. It won’t be quite the 1,000-foot-tall tower The New York Times was predicting would go up at Junior’s, but it’s close.

To put that in context, Brooklyn’s current tallest tower, 388 Bridge Street, is 590 feet tall.

The developers are partners JDS and Chetrit, who were also bidding on the Junior’s site. It’s not yet known who is in contract for 33 Dekalb Avenue.

SHoP, which also designed Barclay’s Center and Domino, is known for interesting and innovative buildings, so we expect their design will be a plus for the area.

Permits filed yesterday call for 70 stories and 495 apartments. The building will have 555,734 square feet of space in total, including 108,799 square feet of retail, as NY YIMBY was the first to report.

What do you think of the plans?

340 Flatbush Ave Extension to Become Brooklyn’s Tallest Building [NY YIMBY]
Tallest Tower in Brooklyn, 1,000 Feet High, Could Sprout on Junior’s Site [Brownstoner]
Photo by Google Maps via NY YIMBY


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  1. Cops, EMT, Fire Dept guys tend to park in any restricted parking spaces these new buildings carve out. Toren has a commercial parking only zone – about 5-6 spaces worth in front of the building – and it’s constantly filled with cars with placards. And Toren only has 240 units, this will have double. But agreed, there are parking spaces here that can be re-purposed for building residents. It will help a little.

  2. There will be plenty of room for drop-offs if the parking lane is taken away in front of this/these building(s) and made into a loading zone. Bet that doesn’t happen though, over the howls of the usual suspect parking defenders.
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    Even your own question asks “where do residents double park”….but isn’t the proper question “where will they stop/stand where they won’t get in anyone else’s way?” Getting rid of 5-6 parking spaces in front of the building would allow that. I’ve also seen a few non-luxury buildings in Chicago with a built in parking garage, and that parking garage has an area specifically for loading/unloading (for residents, without having to park there).

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