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Originally Posted by antinimby
What a beautiful project. Look at the other nondescript lowrises in the area. This thing just uplifts the entire area and brings it up to date.
Wonderful. Bring them on!  |
The lowrises in Fort Green and downtown Brooklyn are far from nondescript. What pictures were you looking at? In addition to their beauty, they're functional and (obviously) in scale with the neighborhood.
This tower, by contrast, is totally out of scale with and disrupts the fabric of the neighborhood. The residents it's likely to draw in are not going to participate in the neighborhood, nor is the building's design conducive to such activity. The ready availability of most necessities within the building (gym, ground-floor retail etc...) encourages residents to leave the building only to go to work, presumably in Manhattan. Hell, the sheer height of the building is a wonderful symbol for the type of alienation that it's going to breed.
Having a massive hardon for anything tall, regardless of whether the development is sensible is just as bad as embracing nimbyism and sprawl.