NEW YORK | Brooklyn Tower (9 DeKalb) | 1,073 FT | 73 FLOORS

[NYguy]

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/n...?adppopup=true

[NYguy]

Seeing similarities between the facade here, and 270 Park...


https://twitter.com/SKastenbaum/stat...397249/photo/1

[chris08876]

Credit: Alemel

[NYguy]

Vassillys

[HyperPower]

Reminds me of PPG Place in Pittsburgh with the Neo Art Deco/Postmodern fasade and crown. A tower worthy of Manhattan but most certainly a fine addition to Gotham's skyline.

[mrnyc]

^ yep.

[NYguy]

https://twitter.com/HarlemJ11/status...78383738372102

[HyperPower]

https://ibb.co/album/cKvPYc

[JManc]

Originally Posted by HyperPower

Reminds me of PPG Place in Pittsburgh with the Neo Art Deco/Postmodern fasade and crown

That and with the massing of the Cathedral of Learning. I really like this building.

[MolsonExport]

NYGuy, what a fabulous set!

[artspook]

I like PPG Place in Pittsburgh . .
It has a worthy gothic crown silhouette . .
Our impressive 9 deKalb tower looming, I Love . .
Otherwise perfection, Brooklyn Tower has but a timid
crown silhouette of teeny nibbletts . . like kernels of corn,
proportionally speaking . . mere crenellation really . .
It could easily be rectified in the future . .

[artspook]

NYguy’s photos of this building have been
Spectacular, very satisfying . . Thankyou . .

[Toasty Joe]

via @Tectonicphoto on Twitter

[NYguy]

https://twitter.com/shaygabriel/stat...40386632261634

[HyperPower]

Originally Posted by artspook

I like PPG Place in Pittsburgh . .
It has a worthy gothic crown silhouette . .
Our impressive 9 deKalb tower looming, I Love . .
Otherwise perfection, Brooklyn Tower has but a timid
crown silhouette of teeny nibbletts . . like kernels of corn,
proportionally speaking . . mere crenellation really . .
It could easily be rectified in the future . .

Brooklyn Tower's crown would of complimented 3WTCs but we all know or can't expect nice things from one of the most important building projects on earth that led us into two wars, especially with the Port Authority & Larry $ilver$tein at the helm. 'Value engineering'!



In the same time frame ie 2000 until today (2023) a city unheard of in the middle of a desert called Dubai has built 36 supertall skyscrapers and over 307 highrises.
I'm starting to think its nothing more than an offshore money-laundering scheme for banksters and their cronie developers as when I passed through Dubai's airport made of Diamonds & Marble I had a gut feeling all the towers were empty appreciating in value.

[NYguy]

https://hellgatenyc.com/the-affordab...mite-expensive

The ‘Affordable’ Apartments at Brooklyn’s Futuristic Sinister Stalagmite Ain’t Cheap
You think anyone can just walk into Mordor?


April 11, 2023

The tallest tower in Brooklyn, upon which the Eye of Sauron will soon be unveiled, is finally opening.

Studios at the SHoP-designed, 1,066-foot building start at just under $1 million, while a nice penthouse will cost you $6 million—a perfect vantage point for you to do that weird hand thing that the filthy rich like to do.

For lesser gods, there are market-rate rentals, which range from $3,750/month for a studio to three-bedroom apartments at $11,825/month. Their view may not be as nice, but everyone below will still look like ants—ants you can crush.

Mortals who beat the odds might be able to live in the 120 "affordable" units that Barad-dûr—I mean, the Brooklyn Tower—was required to offer, because the developers received a 421-a tax exemption from the state.

Back in 2016, when JDS Development took the tax break to build the tower, there were no clear guidelines for how deeply affordable these apartments needed to be (the City could have pushed for more, but didn't). The developer just had to set aside apartments for people making 130 percent of the area median income and below (up to $138,840 for two people), and then they could decide their "affordability"—how much of the "below" they included.

Now that the Brooklyn Tower's lottery has now gone up on the City's Housing Connect website, let's see those income requirements:

Ah, well then. We've reached out to JDS Development to see why they chose to focus on New Yorkers earning six figures. We're guessing it has something to do with squeezing as much profit as humanly possible out of Mordor on DeKalb.

The 421-a tax break exemption the Brooklyn Tower received, which mandated these affordable apartments, expired last year, meaning no new buildings that begin construction right now qualify for the millions in tax breaks. Governor Kathy Hochul wants to revive it as part of the now-stalled state budget talks, possibly with a lower maximum AMI—but affordable housing advocates want it gone completely. It's not hard to see why.

[NYguy]

Getting closer to a lighting maybe. Can't wait to see it.


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(From Prospect Park)

https://twitter.com/NoahHurowitz/sta...686785/photo/1

It’s cool how you can see the evil downtown Brooklyn sauron tower from literally everywhere

[jd3189]

Man, when Brooklyn’s skyline really gets big, it’s gonna be an amazing slight. It could rival SF or LA’s. Probably not too far from Philly, Boston, Atlanta, etc.

[NYguy]

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https://twitter.com/mrsambarlow/stat...20666612469761

[NYguy]

https://twitter.com/redditCityPorn/s...99810747170816

This tower in Downtown Brooklyn is crazy beautiful.