ICYMI: Downtown Brooklyn’s Greek Revival Temple
If you have wandered through the plazas and past the tall towers of MetroTech, you probably have walked right past an austere Greek Revival temple at 311 Bridge Street.
Brooklyn Performance Series Examines Black Composers’ Effect on Film
Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn performing onstage at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts in May 2015. Photo via 651 Arts
Breathe some life into the doldrums of March with Brooklyn-based organization 651 Arts’ “Classically Black” performance series. The series of events explores black culture via an array of artistic genres, including dance, music and poetry.
Report: Residential Growing Pains Are Straining Downtown Brooklyn’s Infrastructure
Photo by Mary Hautman
Downtown Brooklyn’s recent residential explosion — while bringing activity and economic growth to the area — wasn’t the intended result of the nabe’s 2004 rezoning. Measures that were meant to turn the area into an office mecca are instead transforming it into a land of luxe condos and rentals.
With a new report released this week, Borough President Eric Adams addresses the neighborhood’s unanticipated needs and what the city can do to for its infrastructure and mixed-use future.
Everything You Need to Know About Brooklyn’s Future Tallest Building
340 Flatbush Avenue Extension. Rendering by SHoP Architects via NYT
There’s a lot of buzz in the air about the borough’s future tallest tower, coming soon to Downtown Brooklyn. Here are all the key details you need to know.
Your Guide to Brooklyn’s In-the-Works Middle and Elementary Schools
A middle school is planned at the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park tower at 664 Pacific Street. Rendering by Marvel Architects via DNA
Brooklyn’s school situation is ever-changing, with the education system shifting alongside borough demographics and sagging under the weight of incoming residents.
Behold the Vast DeKalb Market Hall, Turning Downtown Brooklyn Into a Foodie Destination
“I think Brooklyn deserves all this,” said DeKalb Market Hall managing partner Anna Castellani as she guided Brownstoner on a hard-hat tour of the subterranean cafeteria. Beneath the mixed-use behemoth of Downtown Brooklyn’s second City Point tower, a sprawling food market is quickly taking shape.
Sale of Dime Savings Bank Officially Closes: Brooklyn, Prepare for Your Tallest Tower Yet
Joe Chetrit of Chetrit Group (left) and Michael Stern of JDS Development (right). Chetrit photo via DNA, Stern photo via JDS Development
It’s a done deal: Downtown Brooklyn’s neo-Classical Dime Savings Bank has officially sold to developers Joe Chetrit and Michael Stern for $90,000,000.
Renovation, T-Mobile Store to Spruce up Look, Retail Rents on Downtown Strip
Rendering via CPEX
Just what Brooklyn needs: Another T-Mobile.
An additional outpost of the cell phone and communications company has signed a lease at 93 Court Street — a once-glorious Tudor-style architecture office — for $200 a square foot, a CPEX spokesperson told Brownstoner, in what may well be a new high for the area’s retail rents.
Based on a rendering from CPEX, which brokered the deal, the facade of the building will be repaired for the better, but sadly not restored. Trust us, you want to see it in its original glory:
City Point’s Final Tower Will Be Brooklyn’s Third Tallest, SLCE to Design
City Point’s second tower under construction in June. Photo by Cate Corcoran
A big step for a bigger development: SLCE Architects will design City Point’s third and final tower — and the tower will be Brooklyn’s third tallest.
Hipsters or Height? Brooklyn-the-Brand Versus Brooklyn-the-Megacity
The new towers planned for Downtown Brooklyn represent more than sky-high apartments and office space. They’re a taste of Brooklyn’s megacity future — a destiny potentially at conflict with Brooklyn’s artisanal brand.
