Towering Avalon Brooklyn Revealed

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where's the link for the post article?

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That's the same building as the one Avalone built in LIC with a different color scheme. What gives?

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#1 -- Read this word by word. Then read it again until you get it:

A Sunday real estate supplement in the Post (that doesn't appear to be online) had a cover story on Downtown Brooklyn development, and there was an update on megadeveloper AvalonBay's 42-story, 650-unit rental tower slated for the chunk of land between Flatbush Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Gold and Prince Streets.

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oy vey.

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so tawl

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it's gonna be great to get such a huge amount of people into downtown brooklyn over the next couple years.

it will become much more vibrant and the retail is really going to pick up substantially.

this area is poised for a huge amount of further growth in the next 5-10 years.

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If it gets built like the rendering, which it probably won't, I find it rather attractive, with the vertical bands of color.

Denton

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looks like J condo

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when can we demloish all housing projects please

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@6 Downtown brooklyn IS pretty vibrant. Let me guess, not with the yuppie stores you want to see?

What will be amazing will be the amount of foot traffic crossing Flatbush during rush hours with all these new developments directly across Flatbush from transport.

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http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5840&page=35

similar (but less colorful) rendering from a few weeks ago (scroll down to entry 518)

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this is not a hater comment, but just a quality of life comment. it is very dirty, noisy and somewhat scary around there - if not the threat by the inhabitants of the housing projects then by the rats. worked with a photographer near there for years and experienced all of the above.

good proximity to downtown and trains, but wouldn't the burg accomplish that too with more to do and less of the bad stuff? think the burg could handle a rental building like this.

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No, downtown Brooklyn is not "vibrant". The retail that exists there mostly caters to non-residents, particularly of a particular population group that discourages retail development in their own neighborhoods. A vibrant neighborhood includes extensive retail that supports residents of that neighborhood.

On a purely aesthetic note, baggy sportswear is an anathema to civilized people everywhere. The retail in downtown Brooklyn caters to an anti-social element and bankrupt culture that should be wiped off the face of history. There is nothing there worth saving. If such people want to build such retail in their own neighborhoods, let them - downtown Brooklyn is too valuable to waste. It should serve the entire borough, not the retailers who cater to lower-class black people who follow manufactured fashion trends from MTV.

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Yet another ugly highrise...Definitely looks like there second building in LIC.

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Holy Shit.

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@13 When you say that downtown brooklyn should 'serve the entire borough', you mean Manhattan?

@12: Yes! This belongs in williamsburg. We should put all the people who want a manhattan lifestyle, but can't afford it, into Williamsburg. Build williamsburg up and up and up... views galore. Why ruin other neighborhoods?

I'd rather have a modells close by, but go into the city for my dress shirts. Keeps the squares out.

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Newsflash to the uninformed. The native people of Brooklyn don't care what you think. The shopper keepers in the Fulton Malls have thriving businesses serving(primarily minority) people from ALL over Brooklyn.

The Fulton Mall area is equivalent to 34th street in Manhattan, or Jamaica Ave in Queens in that it's a shopping dirtict: MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO SHOP THERE-DON'T LIVE THERE.

Downtown Brooklyn is vibrant, especially Fort Greene. There are good shops(more still needed), and GREAT restaurants.

The lack of amenities that suit you seems like an real oppurtunity to me. Put your money where your mouth is, and encourage some "real" retail developement for you and your neighbors.

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the new wave of development in downtown bk is great for the boro and the city overall in the balance - those who poo poo it or either short sited or narrow focused. and there is one thing that this avalon building does not have in common with the recent lic build - immense above ground parking. ten years from now this fbx corridor is going to be off the meat rack.

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You mean they're going to replace one of Brooklyn's most popular car washes and quick-lube change businesses? Where are all those SUV owners going to get their spinning rims shined now? Oh the horror.

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#18

you gave up on posting as csk?

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holy shit... i live right across the street from this crap.

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I'm confused - there is no "between Flatbush Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Gold and Prince Streets," as the post says. (Even if we were to ignore the commonly-made Flatbush Avenue/Flatbush Avenue Extension juxtaposition.) Or, more precisely, it doesn't fully delineate the size of this building. Will it go all the way up to Tech Place or will it only occupy part of that block?