On Flatbush, a $3 Billion Pipeline of Projects
There is more than $3.1 billion of construction projects in the pipeline for the one mile stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburgh Bank building, calculates The New York Post this morning. Here’s how it breaks down: In addition, there’s another $1 billion in projects off the northern end of Flatbush…
There is more than $3.1 billion of construction projects in the pipeline for the one mile stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburgh Bank building, calculates The New York Post this morning. Here’s how it breaks down: 
In addition, there’s another $1 billion in projects off the northern end of Flatbush and, of course, a $4 billion project some of you may have heard of called Atlantic Yards. “Flatbush Avenue is the borough’s quintessential boulevard and the gateway into Brooklyn,” said Joseph Chan, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. “It is to Brooklyn what Broadway is to Manhattan, and it is poised for some dramatic change.”
Boom on Flatbush [NY Post] GMAP
Beeotch, “the powers that be”?
Man, can some of you people please stop blaming everyone under the sun for your problems!?!?
“Wow — Bed Stuy, Crown Heights, and PLG are for middle and working class people now — I guess if middle and working class people can afford to pay $850K and up for a house.”
Babs, sorry to burst your bubble but Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and PLG are indeed soundly middle class no matter how many homes sell for $1M. Theses are mixed income communities and not home to the uber-rich. Yes, they have their investment bankers, lawyers and doctors but they have far more teachers, bus drivers, sanitation workers, firemen, policemen and local businesspeople. Most homeowners in these areas might be “house rich” but they are definitely middle class.
I guess some people will just say about anything to win an agrument.
I think development is a good thing. I object to the short-sighted approach current developers take, over visionary designs that consider the shape of a city fifty or one hundred years in the future. True visionaries are rare, and are not currently represented in our municipal government. The developers do what they can get away with, and not currently restricted to perform to any strandard of foresight.
Given the market-based capitalism that is our system, and the support it gets from those in power and their friends with money, the system is unlikely to be equitable in a growing economy, especially where concentrations of wealth are competing to be close to sources of wealth. We will see a more equitable society when the economy crashes, or with radical changes in the governement, or some kind of revolution.
I urge everyone to participate more effectively by communicating with legislators, and of course, by voting.
Whenever I post to Brownstoner, I use the name ‘Hal’. That way, people recognize my comments within a topic, and even from topic to topic. It would be so helpful if at least a couple of you who post using the name ‘anonymous’ would pick some regular handle so it’s easier to follow the comments.
Who’ll be the first to use the name ‘Dick’?
wow….just….wow. Where do I begin.
As someone who’s seen Crown Heights both good and bad, I don’t like the idea of pushing the working class out. However, most of Brooklyn is solidly middle-class anyway. I resent people infering that working-class Brooklyn is a shithole. It’s not. There are simply a few shitty residents.
We need the luxury developments. It means tax money for schools, boys&girls clubs, cops, trains, pay rasies for the cops, etc……As for “Race”, I couldn’t care less what race moves in. If Brooklyn turned 99% Black tomorrow, I wouldn’t care. If it turned 99% white tomorrow, then I wouldn’t care.
Being for high-income earners doesn’t make someone a “little hitler spawn”. As someone who has family that died in the holocaust, I resent people using that term. We don’t need more NYCHA in this city. There’s already too much poverty and crime. What we need is a plan to retain the middle class (read: 40-200k).
Eastern Parkway and New York Ave checking in…
As a resident of Brooklyn for over 30 years the development in downtown Brooklyn is way over the top
And a terrible idea for the middle class it will only increase property value that means the rent will go up and for you house owners It will increase property tax, water tax, con Ed bills, etc…
If you think for a minute that your con Ed bills has nothing to do with the neighborhood that your leaving think again
They have different rates for high class areas same goes for property tax,
And lets not forget the force behind all this our Mayer Bloomberg who in my opinion has been he worst Mayer
New York ever had and that’s saying a lot considering we had David dinkies
He is making sure that in a couple of years no middle class or poor families will be able to afford to live in NY
He increased outrageously property tax without any consideration for middle class
Increased parking tickets from $55 to $115-$125 for most of us it takes one or two days of work to pay this off
The problem here is that he is out of touch he is worth according to forbs between 20-25 billion dollars
So for him what is $125 he is completely clueless and dangers for poor and the middle class families
Now he is increasing water tax and wants you to pay $8 when you go in to Manhattan and as Bloomberg said “what is $8 when somebody really needs to go to Manhattan†for him $8 is nothing but for most of us its a lot of money he reminds me
Of he French revelation when they ask the king why he didn’t provide food for the French people who where starving to dead because there was no bread his reply was “if you don’t have bread then eat cake†there was another dictator who was out of touch
And do you really think crime is down look all over the drug dealers are back,
the other day my friends car was stolen at gun point when he called the police to make a report they gave him a hard time with questions like do you really want to make a report, are you sure that it was at gun point, do you really think it was stolen, etc…
They sounded more like aol when you call to cancel an account where they just don’t understand this two letters :please cancel†NYPD is acting the same way and a few months after that when my friend called one police plaza to get a copy of the report CAN YOU BELIVE THIS THE REPORT WAS NOT EVEN THERE no wonder reporting crime is down
He is running this city more like Mogadishu, Somalia rather then NYC
Beeotch….I’m not foaming at the mouth and I didn’t take your lecture personally…I thought it was funny actually! I do, however, question YOUR reading comprehension. What was it in my original post that made me come across as a “white supremist”? Re-read my post (now that you know I’m black) and tell me that? I know you claim to have lived here, but when was that? Again, I’ve been here since ’97 and believe me there have never been “plenty of services”. As for my “refined standards”. The damn Associated “supermarket” had rats running around the produce section for God Sake!! Poor, middle class or rich, that’s ridiculous!! My primary point was that (a) the services were/are substandard in the Downtown Brooklyn (again not speaking to any other neighborhood), (b) most of the new developments are not replacing / tearing down existing housing…they are replacing parking lots, abandoned buildings and such. Thus not displacing middle class / working class people and (c) the development projects will surely bring in much needed services. What’s wrong with that? Again, I can’t speak for everyone in my building, University Towers (which again, I love…have no plans or interest in moving anywhere else…it’s a nice community and diverse mix of folks), but the people I have spoken with and the sentiments in our (coop board / community) meetings is that people are ecstatic about the changes…black, brown and white alike.
anon 6:53- why shouldn’t he? He’s getting enough tax breaks and subsidies from the city and state to build. How about givng something back? Oh- I’m sorry- I guess you don’t believe in social responsibility.
People don’t want to be forced to move anywhere. they want to stay in their homes and communities- that happens to be a human issue, not an economic one. for those of you who can’t empathize with that, I can only hope karma will teach you- what goes around, comes around.
And your reading comprehension is zero, anon. I envision ou at the computer foaming at the mouth right about now. If you don’t want to be lectured I strongly suggest you not come off like a white supremacist (gee- did I get your demographic wrong or what!). I have no objection to improving services in poorer neighborhoods- would that the powers that be actually bother to do that. But they don’t. Like I siad, I lived there for over 20 years and there are plenty of services- maybe not up to your refined tastes- out there. But you,like lal the rest seem to think your income bracket ( took bad about the million dollar condo) entitles you to remake a neighborhood to suit yourself and to get rid of everyone else. An idiot? I don’t think so- and for the record i was born here and raised in the Bronx. Maybe you don’t need a lecture, but you do need reminding.