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October 7, 2007
Brooklyn Broadside: Downtown Projects, Taken Together,Would Equal a 474-Story Building
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Dennis Holt
For the first time, Brooklyn is offering lots of views, most of which are simply stunning.In fact, if you add up the heights of the known development projects, excluding all of Atlantic Yards, we are building the equivalent, with 22 projects, of a 474-story building. Take that, Freedom Tower! And this staggering number of new residential floors does not include 14 other projects still in the planning stage, nor what may be built as part of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Nor, of course, does it include all the sky-reachers in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. This is strictly Downtown stuff.
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Posted by amy at October 7, 2007 9:43 AM