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Look out, Brooklyn: Here comes your first 1,000-foot tower.

On Tuesday, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a proposal for 9 DeKalb Avenue, a 73-story apartment building set to rise this year on Flatbush Avenue next door to Junior’s Restaurant. Though dozens of towers have been built in Downtown Brooklyn over the past decade, the new building, at 1,066 feet, will be almost twice as tall as anything else in the neighborhood.

Until two years ago, only four buildings in New York City surpassed the 1,000-foot mark. Now there are twice as many, with more than two dozen others under construction or in planning.

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[the_lizard]

Villainous.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Isn't 1,066 feet kind of... not that tall? In 2016 context anyway?

 

[Elitist1945]

That looks ugly, if I'm being honest. Take a page from Dubai's designers.

 

[PBY]

Isn't 1,066 feet kind of... not that tall? In 2016 context anyway?

Tall for Brooklyn

 

[Lima]

What is this in the real world? As in meters?

 

[Linkyn]

Maybe it's the angle, but that thing clashes really badly with the surrounding buildings.

What is this in the real world? As in meters?

About 325 metres (1 ft ~ 0.3 m)

 

[Bare Grills]

I've seen taller

 

[Crayons]

Wow. I'm witnessing the death of Brooklyn in my lifetime.

 

[East Lake]

What is this in the real world? As in meters?

About 20,000.

 

[Lamel]

Eh cool but looks weird.

What is this in the real world? As in meters?

In the real world one can do math and easily figure it out.

 

[AxeMan]

What is this in the real world? As in meters?

It's roughly 3 feet to a metre.

so roughly 350 metres

 

[exmachina64]

Wow. I'm witnessing the death of Brooklyn in my lifetime.

Yep.

 

[mreddie]

Why?

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Eh cool but looks weird.



In the real world one can do math and easily figure it out.

Not everyone knows how many feet are in a metre.

 

[Abstruse Moose]

I've built better looking towers out of popsicle sticks.

 

[Fat4all]

Not everyone knows how many feet are in a metre.

who's the current king

we dunno how long a foot is yet until we measure his feet

 

[ajf009]

Not everyone knows how many feet are in a metre.

Google is everyone's friend

This building looks cool, too mordern for the area though

 

[Seth Enosh]

A 73 story apartment building means 100s of new housing units. Sounds good. Popular cities need to keep building up to keep suburban sprawl from getting worse and prevent runaway housing price increases.

It doesn't look that bad either.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

A 73 story apartment building means 100s of new housing units. Sounds good. Popular cities need to keep building up to keep suburban sprawl from getting worse and prevent runaway housing price increases.

It doesn't look that bad either.

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[GK86]

Wow. I'm witnessing the death of Brooklyn in my lifetime.

Won't be long before Queens follows suit.

 

[demosthenes]

Why?

Because a lot of people want to live in NYC?

 

[Mully]

Won't be long before Queens follows suit.

Astoria already has a few 30 story apartment buildings going through proposals right now.

 

[jb1234]

It looks incredibly out of place given the height of the buildings around it.

 

[GK86]

Astoria already has a few 30 story apartment buildings going through proposals right now.

Long Island City has been transformed into skyscrapers.

 

[Wag]

Won't be long before Queens follows suit.

People only live in Queens because they have to. The only reason to go to Queens is to go to the airport.

 

[mercenar1e]

Its not just the downtown area but other parts of Brooklyn will also see high rise buildings.

Very recent story

Nine-Story Development Planned For Coney Island Waterfront - This is important as it marks the beginning of a new Coney Island.

http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/04/bloombergs-fantasy-nine-story-development-planned-for-coney-island-waterfront/

40-Story Tower, Tallest In Coney Island

http://newyorkyimby.com/2015/01/40-story-tower-tallest-in-coney-island-planned-for-trump-village-shopping-center-532-neptune-avenue.html

30-Story Condo Tower Slated For Voorhies Avenue

http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2014/09/bonkers-30-story-condo-tower-slated-voorhies-avenue-next-subway-station/

Former Cropsey Ave Nursing Home To Be 24-Story Condo Tower (Across the Best Buy - Ceasars Bay)

http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/09/former-cropsey-ave-nursing-home-24-story-condo-tower/#.VxlgcjArKUk

 

[Clefargle]

It looks incredibly out of place given the height of the buildings around it.

That's the point

 

[Mully]

Long Island City has been transformed into skyscrapers.

I'm okay with all of these large buildings being constructed. These new buildings are an eyesore, and they demolish a neighborhood's history, but they do allow for more people to live in NYC.

 

[KingBroly]

Looks like 2 Slim PS2's stacked on top of one another

 

[Roland_Gunner]

A 73 story apartment building means 100s of new housing units. Sounds good. Popular cities need to keep building up to keep suburban sprawl from getting worse and prevent runaway housing price increases.

It doesn't look that bad either.

I think it looks shitty given Brooklyn's skyline but residential structures of that size are clearly needed. So suck it up NYers.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Once they started running people out of their houses with eminent domain laws for the Atlantic Yards project I knew this is the direction brooklyn was headed in

 

[Guevara]

At a different angle, you see this ~40 story building only about 6 blocks away

I'm all for it. Basically right on top of a ton of transit options.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Not everyone knows how many feet are in a metre.

Typing "1066 feet to meters" in your Firefox or Chrome address bar will give you the correct answer at the top of your page to 4 decimal points. And it's much faster of a response than asking in a thread.

 

[blamite]

Pretty cool lookin'!

 

[LQX]

Man, Brooklyn has changed so much. We have a new stadium and now a new Tower. I swear for years no one would even look at Brooklyn. A few years ago they wanted to bring Walmart here and it was shot down. I bet it would be approved this time around.

 

[Bacon]

Typing "1066 feet to meters" in your Firefox or Chrome address bar will give you the correct answer at the top of your page to 4 decimal points. And it's much faster of a response than asking in a thread.

You and I both know he didn't come into this thread actually looking for an actual answer.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

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Yeah but they'll all be extremely expensive and out of reach for most people. Unless they are upper middle class/rich. Or if they're willing to have roommates.

But yes in theory it would be great to increase density and minimize land usage.

 

[titiklabingapat]

It won't look out of place once the other towers are built around it.

Yeah but they'll all be extremely expensive and out of reach for most people. Unless they are upper middle class/rich. Or if they're willing to have roommates.

But yes in theory it would be great to increase density and minimize land usage.

But not building at all will make the situation and even worse as the rich compete even more for the limited supply. It's better to build and satisfy the demands at the top for now. Eventually something will have to give.

 

[Davidion]

People only live in Queens because they have to. The only reason to go to Queens is to go to the airport.

Yup, exactly. Queens is really terrible; no one should come here.

 

[Bronx-Man]

It's gonna real interesting to see what New York looks like 10 years from now.

 

[CrocMother]

Yup, exactly. Queens is really terrible; no one should come here.

Don't believe his lies!

 

[sems4arsenal]

Always wonder about people living at the top floors of these tower, how long do they spend in elevators? does the view get old? do they get bugs?

 

[GK86]

People only live in Queens because they have to. The only reason to go to Queens is to go to the airport.

Yup, exactly. Queens is really terrible; no one should come here.

Ban them both, please.

 

[LJ11]

Yup, exactly. Queens is really terrible; no one should come here.

Unfortunately for us, they're coming for Western queens.

 

[FyreWulff]

Is this going to have the ugly fucking fear-based bunker walls like the bottom of the new WTC?

 

[Sunster]

reminds me of executive order 1066. Signed by Roosevelt in 1943 which authorized the US government to round up ethnically Japanese citizens and throw them into interment camps.

So that's fun.

 

[CrocMother]

Ban them both, please.

He's just trying to trick people into not coming!

 

[Maniel]

To compare it to another building, the Empire State Building is 1250 ft.

 

[titiklabingapat]

reminds me of executive order 1066. Signed by Roosevelt in 1943 which authorized the US government to round up ethnically Japanese citizens and throw them into interment camps.

So that's fun.

He thew them into tall buildings?