NEW YORK | 395 Flatbush Ave | 840 FT | 72 FLOORS

[NYguy]

Looks a little better here, though I wish it tapered more....



https://x.com/NYCPlanning

[NYguy]

https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/real-estate/downtown-brooklyn-is-now-a-hotbed-of-new-homes/

Brooklyn neighborhood now a hotbed of new homes with nearly 4.5K built in 2025 — a record year





By Emily Davis
Feb. 10, 2026

A 9-to-5 nabe no more — Downtown Brooklyn is cementing itself as a residential powerhouse.

The neighborhood broke its own housing record in the last calendar year, with a total of 4,421 new residential units completed in 2025.

The data comes from the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s real estate team, which uses a combination of city and brokerage data. The banner year’s results towered 51% above the previous record, set with 2,925 new units in 2022.

Downtown Brooklyn’s ability to support large-scale projects was helped along in recent years by a 2004 rezoning effort and attractive tax incentives for developers.

The neighborhood’s very own supertall, the Brooklyn Tower, found conditions favorable enough to list its $16.75 million penthouse in December.

Recently completed residential projects include the 1,098-unit Rocklyn at 20 Rockwell Place and the 569-unit Everly at 180 Ashland Place.

Downtown Brooklyn’s zoning requires a portion of affordable housing in every new development, allowing the area to add more than 6,000 new affordable homes over the past decade — 1,308 of those came in the first half of 2025.

The year ahead looks just as busy, with 11 projects under construction and 26 still in the pipeline, according to the Partnership.

[ChiND]

I used to go to BAM a lot with my wife in the early 2000s. This area has transformed dramatically since then.

[NYguy]

This was approved by the City Council.

[chris08876]

In the years to come, downtown Brooklyn is starting to be a serious competitor to Lower Manhattan node size wise. Aside from residential, would be nice to get some more office towers in the works. I think this node has great potential. Its transformation from 2010 onward has been legendary.

If just isolated, its downtown area is huge. Would rival many other cities. Also, size is expanding with Pacific Park. In time, LIC will fuse with DT Brooklyn. Greenpoint and Williamsburg are booming big time.

I would like to see some of the larger towers encroaching on the Carroll Gardens area especially with Gowanus expanding. That zone is ripe for more density!

[NYguy]

Yeah, the city needs more of this. Supersize residential where you can.


https://x.com/NYCPlanning/status/2031439700276236338

1,200+ new homes are coming to Downtown Brooklyn!

With today's @nyccouncil approval, 395 Flatbush Ave Ext is the FIRST project in Brooklyn to use our new high-density zoning districts.

The project also creates new jobs + services, public open space & subway entrance upgrades!

[chris08876]

^^^

I like the art style. They want to make YIMBYism cool.

We just need pop and hip hop music with yimby lyrics. Make DEM TOWERS RISE!!


Wu-tang...

More of that City Council, more of that!!!

[NYguy]

The City of Yes, combined with the raised residential FAR (although it could be higher), will do wonders for residential development.

[NYguy]

https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/real-estat...ves-plans-for-a-72-story-brooklyn-tower/

City Council approves plans for a 72-story Brooklyn tower — the second-tallest in the borough






By Emily Davis
March 11, 2026

Downtown Brooklyn’s gloomiest office building is growing up.

The City Council on Tuesday night approved plans for a lofty mixed-use tower at 395 Flatbush Ave. to take the place of a squat building once dubbed “one of the biggest eyesores in downtown Brooklyn.”

Its 840-foot-tall, 72-story replacement, developed by Rabina and Park Tower Group in a public-private partnership, will be second only in height to nearby Brooklyn Tower, the very tallest in the borough. That latter edifice rises 93 stories into the sky.

The team expects to begin construction in 2028.

The city-owned site sits at one of Downtown Brooklyn’s busiest intersections.

Its future tower is slated to span 1.5 million square feet with a 1,263 mixed-income rental apartments. In accordance with zoning requirements, 325 of the apartments are aside as permanently affordable. Those will be made available to renters earning an average of 60% area median income, without using loans or grants from the city.

If successful, the plan will deliver the local district the most affordable housing in any single construction project within the last decade, according to a spokesperson for the development team.

“395 Flatbush is poised to transform one of the most important blocks in Brooklyn with a state-of-the-art mixed-use development that is responsive to the City’s urgent need for new housing at all income levels, including homes serving low- and very low-income populations,” said Josh Rabina, president and CEO of Rabina, in a statement shared with The Post.

The 53-year-old building remains occupied by a Verizon call center and ground-floor retail, including a 7-Eleven and a McDonald’s. It rises seven pitch-black stories above one the central business district’s main transit hubs, DeKalb Avenue Station, which is served by the Q, R, B, D and N trains. The triangular building’s long awning is often crowded with commuters and homeless encampments.

A spokesperson for the developers said the the 350,000-square-foot office building is “no longer meeting the needs of the community.”

The Rabina and Park Tower Group plans promise a significant facelift to the area, including a landscaped public plaza, widened sidewalks, an expanded subway entrance and a commitment to contribute $1 million “to support the maintenance and improvement of Fort Greene Park” over the next decade.

The development team forsees no disruption to subway lines throughout construction, according to a spokesperson.

In addition to housing, the tower will deliver 66,000 square feet of retail and 75,000 square feet of commercial office or community facility space. The latter space may be taken up by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, according to a spokesperson for the development team.

[NYguy]

Part of the mayor’s massive housing push…

[ChiND]

When I was young, I spent a good amount of time in Brooklyn. I’m elated to see this vile eyesore morph into a beautiful tower. Ovid would approve.