Toren, Fully Unveiled
Yesterday we alerted you to the fact that Toren’s scaffolding had just come down. Today Curbed one-ups us with the most extensive editorial slide show of a development we’ve ever seen. On the link, another look at the pool and a trip inside the massive, high-ceilinged penthouse with some of the best views in the…
Yesterday we alerted you to the fact that Toren’s scaffolding had just come down. Today Curbed one-ups us with the most extensive editorial slide show of a development we’ve ever seen. On the link, another look at the pool and a trip inside the massive, high-ceilinged penthouse with some of the best views in the borough.
Touring Toren, Brooklyn’s Most Eye-Popping New Building [Curbed]
THANK you, Buttermilk, my feelings exactly! That stretch of Flatbush is wretched; Metrotech is an office oasis but dead after dark; and the beauties of Ft Green Park, BAM etc. are an awfully long walk away up Flatbush, a treeless desert of traffic fumes in summer and a wind-swept nuthin in winter. I can’t fathom buying into a tower, however luxurious inside, that leaves you stranded like an astronaut on the moon for the blocks immediately surrounding your home. Maybe the commercial strip will follow, but it’s still a downer to me; Flatbush Ave Extension along there just seems to sit in the gravitational pull of the Manhattan Bridge, sucking.
I don’t understand the hype on this place. Who wants to live on Flatbush and Myrtle?
I didn’t mention the mediocre streetscape. Not much to say.
They just had an open house that was mainly SOM types and salesmen. And also very nice architectural students as guides.
The views are OK but the Manhattan view is blocked by other buildings.
There are three elevators and they were grid locked trying to service three or four floors.
The pool is a pretty room with nice tiles but it is 4′-0″ deep. So it’s really a wading pool for kids.
The gym is not impressive. The ‘libray’ is a strange addition although it dsoes have a Frank Lloyd Wright feel.
The partments on show are very small with cheap cabinets in the kitchen. The bathrooms are nice but not anything special.
I wish I could like this place. I just can’t. I hate the steely gray leggo prison feel on the outside, and I absolutely hate that stretch of Flatbush. The bedrooms are tiny and the rooms feel sort of strrrretchhhhed. Very hefty price tags going on there too.
Eh
I guess some people will like it; no accounting for taste.
Looks good except there is a minute amount of counter space in the kitchen.
That’s right jessi overall but there are minimum performance standards you have to meet. I more meant it as an observation as to what is possible through LEED — stick a cogen plant in and you can make rooms like this. On the other hand, those windows are probably very well insulated for windows.
the views into the Avalon building across the street really defeat the purpose of having a high floor in an otherwise highrise-free Brooklyn skyline, lol
As for getting in at a 37% percent deduction, LMAO! We can only hope. I do share the view that these prices are still very stupid, but the market is whatever sellers can get away with, so we’ll just have to watch and see.