Render courtesy of JDS Development via SHoP
Current Status: Under Construction
9 Dekalb Avenue Vital Stats
Address: 340 Flatbush Avenue Extension, Brooklyn, New York 11201 (Brooklyn Community Board 2)
Type: Mixed Commercial and Residential
Name: 9 Dekalb Avenue; Flatbush Tower; 340 Flatbush
Construction: Begun 2017; Complete by 2022
Design Architect: SHoP Architects
Executive Architect: SHoP Architects, P.C.
Developer: JDS Development Group
Builder: _
Height: 1,073 feet (325 meters); 93 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 762,000 Sqft
Site Area: 46,367 square feet; 4,308 square meters
Density: 400 Units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Superlatives: Tallest building in Brooklyn.
Loopholes Exploited:
Read through our blog below for more information on Supertalls.
THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”
Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a "new" typology in "Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the 'Pencil Towers' of New York's...
Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable
From New York Magazine's "The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019": "So it's perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall "mechanical voids" in their buildings to give apartments higher priced views?" Wethinks they're looking at you, 50 W. 66th...
Out of this world!
GOTHAMIST picks up where it left off last week in its expose on the City Planning Commission's Zoning Text Amendment. Journalist Elizabeth Kim notes that although this language may impact the design of 36 West 66th Street, to revise "the design of a 160-foot tall...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
