NEW YORK | The Brooklyner | 514 FT / 157M | 51 FLOORS

[RoldanTTLB]

Hey, wiredny has a thread for this building, but we don't. Since I don't post photos at wiredny, but I do post them here, I think we see the problem. In any event, I can now see this building from my office, and I think it has a ways to climb still (and it can only get uglier).



Here's a few other things from the past:

Arch: Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel
J2 Residential
Stories: 51
Height: 514
Residences: 491
Gross SF: 456,082 Sq. Ft.

rendering care of brownstoner.com

And the latest shot from the ground in front (by Tectonic at wiredny):

[ZZ-II]

this is in brooklyn or am i wrong?

[Roaming]

Well It looks very ordinary. Not too ugly not too nicer. Just a skyline filler.

[RoldanTTLB]

Originally Posted by ZZ-II

this is in brooklyn or am i wrong?

It is in Brooklyn. I can change the thread title if everyone thinks it should be, but technically Brooklyn isn't its own city (I say that as the guy who lives in Manhattan...). Also, this will be the new tallest building in Brooklyn, surpassing the Williamsburg Savings Bank (One Hanson) by 2 feet.

[NYguy]

There was a thread here. It may also have gotten lost with the others.

[philvia]

Originally Posted by RoldanTTLB

And the latest shot from the ground in front (by Tectonic at wiredny):

thats actually the most flattering picture i've seen of it so far.... i live a block from this and have to look at it everyday from my window

[RoldanTTLB]

One thing that struck me about this building - for how cheap it seems to be, and for how ugly it is, they are super committed to the pattern. I mean, look at the panes of glass on top of the support columns. That's crazy.

[AJphx]

dear god...

[YSL]

Ugh, ugly.

I don't get these stupid developers. Instead of putting up all these hideous buildings why can't they just put up plain clear glass boxes without the gross patterns?

It would be easier for all of us.

[philvia]

north face getting windows?

[antinimby]

What a total piece of shit.

[NYguy]

Not the best of new constructin in Brooklyn for sure. Here's a wider shot of the Downtown Manhattan/Brooklyn skyline...

Katy Silberger

[philvia]

excuse the durrrty window

[NYguy]

I love that Brooklyn is building and it has the density that I love.

[NYguy]

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories..._accident.html

Big accident at tallest building

By Mike McLaughlin
May 20, 2009


Construction of the borough’s tallest building, at 111 Lawrence St. in Downtown, was halted on Wednesday
after a worker fell several stories and was seriously injured. Here, city and union officials meet to discuss the accident.


A construction worker fell several stories early Wednesday morning in Downtown Brooklyn, bringing work to a halt on what will become Brooklyn’s tallest building.

The unidentified man survived the fall around 9 am and was rushed to a hospital, according to co-workers, who lingered outside the site at 111 Lawrence St.

“He fell a few stories and wasn’t killed,” said one hard hat who declined to give his name.

Another laborer told The Brooklyn Paper that the man did not fall to the street, but landed on one of the lower roofs or scaffolding.

A spokeswoman for Bovis Lend Lease, the construction company building the 514-feet tall residential tower, told The Brooklyn Paper that the man was conscious after the accident. His identity is being withheld until his family is notified.

The site is being developed by the Clarett Group and will eclipse the Williamsburgh Saving Bank building by two feet at the borough’s ceiling.

As one of the biggest builders in the city, Bovis has been involved in other recent high-rise construction accidents.

The private contractor was hired to demolish the Deutsche Bank building in lower Manhattan where two firefighters died in 2007 responding to a blaze in the empty bank tower.

The global construction company was also the project manager of Donald Trump’s controversial SoHo tower where a worker fell to his death in a cement accident in 2008.

An investigation is ongoing.

[NYguy]

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...es_it_hom.html

Brooklyn construction worker Ronald McGovern falls off building, and makes it home by dinnertime



Friday, May 22nd 2009

He was knocked off a building, fell three stories, was raced to Bellevue Hospital, given a CAT scan, got five staples in his head - and still made it home by dinnertime.

Oh, yeah, the doctors told him to take two Motrin and call in the morning.

This was Wednesday, 8:50a.m., downtown Brooklyn. Ronald McGovern, 32, a Local 18 Brick and Concrete Union "steel king" boss, was standing on a third-floor loading platform of a 51-story building going up at 111 Lawrence St., soon to be the tallest building in the borough.

"I already sent one load of No.8 bars up to the 51st floor," McGovern said, referring to a tower-crane load of steel rebar to be used in reinforced concrete.

"The eight bars sailed right up like butter."

About 10 minutes later, 9a.m., McGovern, a father of three with a fourth kid due in October, supervised a second load to be lifted by the tower crane to the top floor.

"This time we were sending up a load of No. 11 bars,' McGovern said. "But this time the steel load swung behind me, and slammed into me, and just took my legs out from under me. It sent me right off the building. I remember saying, 'Oh, s--t!'"

McGovern said the earth rose and wind whistled in his ears - but his life did not flash before his eyes.

"I felt zero pain," he said. "Time kinda slows up even though you know you're falling fast. There's no time to think about dying. You're just ... going."

McGovern landed on his right side in a 30-yard Dumpster filled with construction debris.

"The garbage saved my life," he said.

The Lawrence St. site was ordered shut down, pending an investigation of safety violations.

[NYguy]

awscyh

[philvia]

where is that pic taken from? smith st subway?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by philvia

where is that pic taken from? smith st subway?

From a roof according to the photographer.

[NYguy]

Tim Faracy of Bklyn