589 Fulton Street - The Brook
Beyer Blinder Belle · Downtown Brooklyn · 2025
Southeast corner from the intersection of Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue.
Facade installation is progressing at Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management’s 51-story residential rental tower The Brook at 589 Fulton Street. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, the 575-foot-tall tower’s facade features a curtain wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and light bronze toned metal panel. When completed, the development will offer 591 rental units and two floors of amenities for the residents.
Looking up at the southeast corner.
Looking up at the east facade.
Close-up of the curtain wall facade.
Close-up of the curtain wall facade.
Close-up of the tower crown’s southeast facade.
Looking up at the east facade.
Northeast facade from University Place.
Southwest facade from Hanover Place.
Close-up of the tower crown’s curtain wall facade.
Tower Views
View to the north towards the East River waterfront.
View to the north towards Lower Manhattan and Midtown.
View to the southwest towards Gowanus.
Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle; Interiors: Bonetti Kozerski; General Contractor: Suffolk Construction; Developers: Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: Second Half of 2025.
Construction Update: Brooklyn Tower at 9 Dekalb
View of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and Brooklyn Tower from Bond Street.
Facade installation is nearing completion at JDS Development Group’s residential supertall Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 93-story tower rises 1,066 feet and sits next to the landmarked Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank built in 1929.
Looking up at the southwest corner of Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and Brooklyn Tower.
Looking up at Brooklyn Tower from Fleet Street.
SHoP Architects’ massing design of interlocking hexagonal extruded volumes draws on the hexagon motif of the adjacent bank’s floors and ceiling ornamentation. Curtain wall panels of floor-to-ceiling glass, blackened metal, and bronze colored metal clad the tower.
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner of Brooklyn Tower from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Closeup of the Brooklyn Tower’s crown.
Northeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Northeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Looking up at the southwest corner of Brooklyn Tower from the roof of the Brooklyn Dime Saving Bank.
Closeup of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank.
Roof of the Brooklyn Dime Saving Bank.
Closeup of the Brooklyn Tower facade.
The tower offers 150 residential condos on the 53rd floor and above, with units ranging in size from studios to 4-bedrooms. Below the 53rd floor, the tower will offer 400 residential rental units, with 120 of those units falling under the affordable housing program.
View northwest towards Lower Manhattan from the top of Brooklyn Tower.
View of Hudson Yards from the top of Brooklyn Tower.
View of Midtown from the top of Brooklyn Tower.
View northeast towards the East River waterfront from the top of Brooklyn Tower.
View of Greenpoint Landing and Hunters Point South from the top of Brooklyn Tower.
View of Downtown Brooklyn from the top of Brooklyn Tower.
Brooklyn Tower on the Brooklyn skyline.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Residential Interiors: Gachot Studios; Amenities Interiors: Woods Bagot; Landscape Designer: HMWhite; Developer: JDS Development Group; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 141 Willoughby
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Facade installation is nearing completion at Savanna Real Estate’s office tower 141 Willoughby in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fogarty Finger, the tower’s facade features a curtain wall of floor-to-ceiling glass and bronze toned metal panel. The expression of the horizontal banding between glazing increases in height from the ground floor to the roof, ranging from one floor to five floors between the horizontal bands of bronze.
Looking up at the east facade.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Closeup of the east facade.
Architect: Fogarty Finger (Design Architect), SLCE (Executive Architect); Developer: Savanna Real Estate; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: Early 2023.
Construction Update: Brooklyn Tower at 9 Dekalb
View of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and 9 Dekalb from Bond Street.
Superstructure has topped out at JDS Development Group’s residential supertall Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 73-story tower sits next to the landmarked Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank. Installation of the curtain wall continues at the upper half of the tower with panels of floor-to-ceiling glass, blackened metal, and bronze colored metal.
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Developer: JDS Development Group; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 9 Dekalb
View of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and 9 Dekalb from Bond Street.
Superstructure has reached the half way mark at JDS Development Group’s residential supertall tower 9 DeKalb in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 73-story tower sits next to the landmarked Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank. Installation of the curtain wall continues at the lower floors with panels of floor-to-ceiling glass, blackened metal, and bronze colored metal.
Northeast corner.
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Developer: JDS Development Group; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 9 Dekalb
View of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and 9 Dekalb from Bond Street.
Superstructure is nearing the half way mark at JDS Development Group’s residential supertall tower 9 DeKalb in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 73-story tower sits next to the landmarked Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank. Installation of the curtain wall has begun at the lower floors with panels of floor-to-ceiling glass, blackened metal, and bronze colored metal.
Northeast corner.
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Developer: JDS Development Group; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Tour: One Clinton
East facade from Tillary Street.
Interior construction is nearing completion at One Clinton, Hudson Companies’ 36-story residential condo tower in Brooklyn Heights. Designed by Marvel Architects, the tower replaces the former Brooklyn Heights Library that previously occupied the triangular site. The library will get a new home in the base of the tower and join other retail tenants Brooklyn Roasting Company and a collection of Smorgasburg food vendors, along with a STEM research center.
Looking up at the east facade.
The tower facade features a gridded design and is clad in a limestone panel with bronze accents.
North corner from Cadman Plaza West.
Inside, the project offers 133 residential units ranging in size from two to five bedrooms. Residents will have access to amenities that include a sky lounge with outdoor terrace, fitness center, children’s indoor and outdoor playrooms, screening room, music rehearsal space, bicycle storage, and underground parking spaces for purchase.
Residential lobby lounge.
Residential lobby.
Mailroom.
Model Residence
Model Residence
Penthouse Residence
Amenity Lounge
Architect: Marvel Architects; Interiors: Studio DB; Landscape: DLANDstudio; Developer: Hudson Companies; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: 9 Dekalb
Northeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Superstructure has surpassed the 12th floor at JDS Development Group’s residential supertall tower 9 DeKalb in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 73-story tower sits next to the landmarked Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank. The tower will be clad in glass and bronze and offer 500 residential units.
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
View of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and 9 Dekalb from Bond Street.
View of City Point (left) and the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank with 9 Dekalb (right).
View of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and 9 Dekalb from City Point.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Developer: JDS Development Group; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Tour: 90 Sands Street
Supportive housing provider Breaking Ground is set to turn a former hotel for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society into permanent supportive and affordable apartments for formerly homeless and low to moderate income individuals. Located at 90 Sands Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the 29-story tower was built in 1992 to house members of the Jehovah’s Witness. As part of a larger selling off of the Jehovah’s Witness’ assets in Downtown Brooklyn, the building was sold in 2017 and eventually acquired by Breaking Ground from RFR in 2018.
The current plan to repurpose the former hotel requires approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) given the site’s zoning for manufacturing use. When completed, the Beyer Blinder Belle led renovation will offer 507 residential units ranging from studios to 1-bedroom apartments. Residents will have access to a range of health and employment services as well as a multipurpose room for community events and meetings, a digital library, a fitness room, and plaza space for public use. Breaking Ground will also seek out community serving uses for the existing vast spaces at the lower levels for meetings and food service that were built for the hotel. Before construction begins later this year, I was given a tour of the building which has not been altered since the Jehovah’s Witness moved out in 2017.
Lobby
Lower Level Meeting and Food Preparation
Residential Floors
Rooftop Terrace
Architect (Renovation): Beyer Blinder Belle; Landscape Architect: W Architecture and Planning; Client: Breaking Ground; Program: Supportive and Affordable Housing; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Tour: 11 Hoyt
Facade installation is ongoing at Tishman Speyer’s 11 Hoyt residential condo tower in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Studio Gang Architects, the 57-story tower features a facade of precast concrete panels shaped to create the scalloped edges that migrate across the tower like waves. The scalloped panels allow for the expansion of the living space and will provide built-in seating at the eight-foot-tall windows. Superstructure has surpassed the three quarters mark and facade panels have been installed on the lower half of the tower. Sales are underway for the studio-to-four-bedroom condos.
Southwest corner from Livingston Street.
Southeast corner from Livingston Street.
Looking up at the east facade.
Amenities
At the base of the tower, a third-floor Park Club will offer residents a fitness center, pool, spa, a co-working lounge, salon lounge, playroom, and adjacent private outdoor park. A Sky Club on the 32nd floor will feature private dining and entertainment spaces with panoramic views of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
32nd floor Sky Club.
View west towards Lower Manhattan from the 32nd floor Sky Club.
View north towards Downtown Brooklyn from the 32nd floor Sky Club.
Architect: Studio Gang Architects; Interiors: Michaelis Boyd Associates; Landscape Architect: Hollander Design Landscape Architects; Developer: Tishman Speyer; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2020.
