[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]
This is the (temporary) new look Fulton Mall, with ongoing demolition work and buildings rising in the background. This space will eventually be filled by the huge mixed use complex called Citypoint with condo tower is due to rise there including 525,000 square feet of retail, 360,000 square feet [...]

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The demolition of the former Albee Square mall, which was once owned by developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities, and is now slated to become a retail-office-residential complex with a massive high rise, has provided many interesting photo ops as the original structures have fallen. There’s only a small part of the former mall left [...]

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“Around 11 a.m. Monday, a bucket of wet cement fell from a scaffolding at 66 Court St. and crushed a Department of Environmental Protection vehicle. The roof was destroyed and the windows were shattered on the Toyota Prius. A pedestrian was taken away in an ambulance with an eye injury sustained from flying debris…In a [...]

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Manhattan is not the only place there are iLines. We’ve got them in Brooklyn too. Check out the scene at the ATT Store in Downtown Brooklyn.–Brownstoner

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The new TKTS Booth in Downtown Brooklyn is opening today at 11AM and will have the requisite ribbon cutting ceremony beforehand. It’s located at 1 Metrotech Center at the corner of Jay Street and Myrtle Avenue. Per the email we received:
TKTS Downtown Brooklyn will offer Broadway, Off Broadway, music, dance and Brooklyn performing arts events [...]

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Opponents of the plan to reopen and double the size of the Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue are holding a press conference today in front of the closed facility. The event is happening today at 12:30 and “various elected officials will make known their opposition to the City’s plan to reopen and expand [...]

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Want to see any musicals? A new TKTS Discount Ticket Booth will be opening on July 10 at MetroTech in Downtown Brooklyn. Translation: tix for Broadway, Off Broadway, music, dance and Brooklyn performing arts events at discounts available Downtown. The booth will offer tickets for same-day evening shows and matinees the following day for up [...]

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Yesterday, we noted a new group called Stop BHOD, as did Brownstoner. The organization is aimed at lobbying for an end to the city’s plan to reopen the Brooklyn House of Detention and doubling its size. (It doesn’t appear to have a position on the addition of retail to the jail.) The group has been [...]

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The city’s Brooklyn House of Detention expansion proposal is having a hard time winning friend in the community. There is already a Stakeholders Group opposed to the facility and, now, a group called Stop BHOD has organized and launched a website. The new groiup, which “strongly” believes “that the City’s plan to expand and open [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Karyn Bosnak]
These earrings come from the Cool Cat jewelry store in Downtown Brooklyn on Fulton Street. Mesmerizing.

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It’s official, MTV’s Real World has picked a big apartment at BellTel Lofts in Downtown Brooklyn as the location for their Brooklyn shoot. To all those that had wagered money on other neighborhoods, our condolences are due. As recently as late last week, there was info floating around that BellTel lofts was out of the [...]

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There will be a “Community Forum on the Future of the Brooklyn House of Detention” on Thursday, May 29 at 7PM at St. Cyril’s Belarusian Cathedral (Atlantic Avenue at Bond Street.) Followers of the saga might recall that the city wants to reopen the facility and double its capacity. Here’s the email we got [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch]
This was the seen yesterday at one of the demonstrations to protest the acquittals of the police officers that shot and killed the unarmed Sean Bell. GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch of Brit in Brooklyn shot this image in Downtown Brooklyn. Citywide, more than 200 people were arrested at the demonstrations.

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The Issue Project Room, currently based in Gowanus, will be moving into the theater and arts space at 110 Livingston, the big condo renovation in Downtown Brooklyn that was done by Two Trees Management. The group is working on raising $2 million for the eventual move.–110 Livingston News & Blog

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Toren, the flashy condo from SOM on Flatbush Avenue, is shooting for gold LEED certification. Among other things, its power will be supplied by five on-site 100-kilowatt generators and it will offer “premier parking” for hybrid vehicles.–Brownstoner

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Work has started on the Indigo Hotel, the big hotel on Duffield Street designed by the ubiquitous Karl Fischer. It will be 22 stories and have 164 rooms and was originally supposed to be completed.–Brownstoner

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The big Toren condo, which is now rising on Flatbush Avenue at Myrtle, will be one of the most distinctive new buildings in Brooklyn. In fact, it would be stand out in Manhattan. Its big sales office on Gold Street just opened. Here’s a looking around, including a video of the developer and sales manager [...]

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Fulton Street, Downtown Brooklyn

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Developer Joe Sitt flip his Albee Square property because he wanted to make a killing or because he failed to find a way to develop it? “Sitt paid $25 million for the mall in 2001, floating plans to build a roughly 1 million-square-foot tower, but instead sold it last year to Acadia Realty Trust for [...]

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This is a new condo tower designed by SOM called Toren that is currently going up on Flatbush Avenue at Myrtle (150 Myrtle) that will clock in at 38 stories. A very heavy-duty marketing campaign for it has just kicked off. It’s fair to say that it’s the most distinctive tower proposed for Brooklyn so [...]

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The city has gone back to the drawing board with its plans for the Brooklyn House of Detention. Last week, it released a new RFP for the facility that, among other things, calls for “additional housing for 720 inmates in twelve dormitories of sixty beds each,” which is basically a doubling in size. We know [...]

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Another week, another tale of a photographer and/or blogger being told by someone on a public street not to take photos. (It happened to us on Friday on Beard Street in Red Hook via a private security guard who stopped his car and said, “You can’t take any pictures here. Don’t take any pictures.”) We [...]

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The Brooklyn House of Detention expansion proposal now has an organization called the Brooklyn House of Detention Stakeholders Group working to “keep the community informed of the ongoing struggle against expansion of the Brooklyn House of Detention.” Their website is brooklynjail.org. Quite a few groups near the facility, which the city wants to reopen and [...]

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It’s rare to find a mannequin with such cleavage, or even to pay attention to one, but this one at Dr. Jay’s in Downtown Brooklyn is “falling out of her dress stacked.”–McBrooklyn

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The 100-story tall Renzo Piano tower at Tillary and Jay Street that would have been developed by Bruce Ratner is dead. Both the Daily News and the Brooklyn Paper report the tower has fallen victim to rising costs and the credit crunch. Forest City Ratner would have built a dorm and lab for City Tech [...]

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