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As we post this, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is about to begin briefing to the media about the five-year vision for the downtown area, loosely defined as the Flatbush corridor leading from the Manhattan Bridge to what the proposed Atlantic Yards project. The briefing may be a little anti-climactic though, since DBP gave The Post the scoop a day early. What you see above are the envisioned transformations of two spots—the Metrotech area and the BAM Cultural District—that ran in the paper this morning. The article also trots out a lot of big numbers:
   • $9.5 billion
   • 56 projects
   • 14,300 new residential units
   • 35,000 new residents
   • 1,800 hotel rooms
   • 3.2 million s.f. of commercial
The thing we were most interested to see, however, was the glimpse of the Flatiron-shaped BFC tower currently rising at the southeast corner of Myrtle and Flatbush; we’ve been trying to get a look for a while but the developer has been closely guarding the finished product. You can check out two not particularly close-up views on the jump.
B’klyn Reaches for The Skies [NY Post]
Downtown Brooklyn Renderings [NY Post]
Downtown Brooklyn Video [NY Post]

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  1. Brooklynlove – b/c these people don’t love “Brooklyn” they love the (fake) image that they believe living in Brooklyn gives THEM. And since they are doing fine, to hell with everyone else, to hell with the future b/c its all about ME and what I want to (pretend) to be.

    FSRG

  2. i just don’t understand how people who supposedly love brooklyn cannot get excited about this. this part of brooklyn is perfect for this type of development, and will benefit the rest of the borough by bringing more resources to bk’s inhabitants, as well as biz and $$ from manhattan. the alternative is to continue losing these opps to jersey city, and eventually LIC-queens plaza area. strike while the iron is hot or stagnate at the status quo indefinitely, which frankly, is not a realistic option for this area given its promise and attractiveness to developers.

  3. It sounds awesome, and it’s great that Brooklyn is finally taking off for the first time since the depression. If that financial calamity hadn’t happened, Brooklyn would be even more developed than this plan. It also would never have become the housing project dumping ground and symbol of national decay.

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