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Originally Posted by NYguy
Out of context? We're not talking about towers placed in the center of a Brownstone neighborhood. That's clearly not what this is. It's on the waterfront. In that first rendering, you can see the towers of Downtown Brooklyn. These towers will no more destroy the neighborhood than those Downtown towers equally (if not more) imosing, and bordering on the neighborhood as well.
It's all about the economics. If it made more sense for them to build smaller, economically, then I'm sure they would go with that option. That's something these NIMBYs rarely grab. It's not always about the height.
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Yes i wholistically agree that economics drives the buisness but im talking about good urban planning. You'd never put a skyscraper near the mall in DC, correct? While this is on the waterfront, the streets surrounding the site are packed with lowrises that are mostly brownstones and prewar buisnesses.
This site sits right in Cobble Hill which is different from the Downtown Brooklyn towers that are seperated from the suburban style fabric of the promenade and its domain by the Flatbush Ave. Extension that leads into the Manhattan bridge. That street diffinitively breaks up the two different urban areas,which allows them too be distinctive, its just good planning to keep these high rises away from such an established neighborhoods like the Heights and Cobble Hill.