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
So I guess that makes East New York middle class – MOVE THERE!
Where would that slew of single family homes in Brooklyn that can be purchased for under $400K be, Anon 6:50? Even houses in East New York go for more than that.
Yeah, a developer spend $750M on a project and all of a sudden he’s expected to make half the units affordable. Are you guys serious?
Ah, Anon at 5:21 and 6:30 – this must be what Shakespeare meant by “sound and fury signifying nothing.”
You totally made up stuff that Sterling never even said, and then spun off of it like your imagination was fact.
I’m waiting for a large noise over Brooklyn, as your gasbag explodes. Sheesh. Get a grip.
“The level of hostility in the comments thread on this blog toward people who can’t afford million dollar apartments is really startling.”
No Sper. You’re wrong. There’s a lot of hostility towards people who feel entitled to drive a Mercedes when all they can afford to own is a Hyundai. Please get real and stop the bullshit.
I don’t think anyone on this board hates or feels pity for anyone who can’t afford to purchase a $1M condo. There’s a slew of single family homes in Brooklyn that can be purchased for under $400k. When did living in a $1M condo become a birthright in this city?
I think you totally misconstrue what Sterling Silver said, anon 6:30. SS is referring to the fact that as neighborhoods get taken over by greedy developers and the rich, it displaces the lower to middle income people who have lived there and forces them out. It is no dispersion on other neighborhoods- and in fact the problem is occurring in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights, as well as other areas. At some point there will be no place for anyone to go- so should the middle class and poor people simply wlak out into the Atlantic so rich people can live wherever they want?
And that isn’t even the issue- the issue is not a natural evolution of neighborhoods, which it has nearly always been in NYC. It’s a literal deconstruction of old neighborhoods, displacment of populations and the uprooting of communities for the convenience of one particular group. And every force and agency works toward easing the way for one particular income bracket. It’s short-sighted, it is hugley non-beneficial and it reinforces the feeling of entitlement for the upper classes who are folled into thinking that money makes them deserve everything.
As for those who constantly trumpet on about handouts, welfare, section 8, blah blah blah- I guarantee you that the upper income brackets, by way of tax breaks, amenities and government subsidies for businesses cost this country billions of dollars more than what we pay out in welfare and housing subsidies. The rich get their handouts, oh yes they certainly do. They’re just too hypocritical to admit it.
Beeotch and Proud of it….you’re and idiot…plain and simple. I’m Anon 6:12 and I’m black, I’m originally from Jamaica and I grew up in the Bronx and I certainly don’t need to be lectured by you or anybody else about what’s needed to improve the neighborhood. I’m “middle class”…I won’t be buying a “million dollar condo” in Oro or anywhere else (I like it in University Towers)…and if wanting to be able to walk to the grocery store or dry cleaner makes me “heinrich himler” (what ever the hell that is) or a “sellout” (which I’m sure is going to be your next ridiculous argument”) then God Bless brother!
Sterling, you are so offensive I don’t know where to begin. I would much rather have someone from Brownsville or East New York living in my coop then you. You are a pompous arrogant snob! Instead of calling for better housing in depressed neighborhoods for people of low to middle income means, you would prefer that these “undeserving” communities remain mostly black and poor so long as you can buy a nice two bedroom coop in Oro for $200k.
I guess a “diverse and vibrant Brooklyn” is only desirable when it’s downtown and benefits people such as yourself. That’s a shame.
Ya know, 6:30, the discussion that took place on this blog last week was interesting and intellectually stimulating because everyone managed to be civil. We agreed and disagreed, but there was no vulgar name calling and no one was as unpleasant a jerk as you have become. You want to have a discussion on the issues at hand – let’s have at it. If you only want to call me names, assume facts not in evidence and generally be a disagreeable asshole, you can do it by yourself. I don’t come to this site to be insulted and called names. You obviously have no point to argue except to prove what a lout you are. Enjoy.