At number 15 on our year-end countdown of the tallest construction projects in New York is The Brook, a 601-foot-tall residential skyscraper at 589 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management, the 51-story structure will span 557,973 square feet and yield 591 rental units with an average scope of 827 square feet, as well as 68,693 square feet of retail space, a cellar level, and two floors of recreational and sports amenities. Thirty percent of the units will be reserved for affordable housing. Suffolk is the general contractor for the property, which is bound by DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Flatbush Avenue diagonally to the east, and Bond Street to the west.
Façade installation has nearly finished since our last update in late June, when most of the upper levels of the reinforced concrete superstructure were still exposed. Recent photos show the building and its podium fully enclosed in the orderly grid of light gray metal paneling and recessed floor-to-ceiling windows with bronze-hued frames. The only major exterior section still awaiting completion is the strip on the eastern elevation where the construction hoist remains anchored.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The development is also planned to include a separate low-rise retail structure at 555 Fulton Street on the opposite end of the city block. The structure, which is being co-developed by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, will yield 14,361 square feet of retail space across the ground floor and cellar level, as well as an outdoor roof deck. Bjarke Ingels Group is set to design the surrounding streetscape.
555 Fulton Street. Rendering by NQS Creative
The plot for the retail building at 555 Fulton Street is currently serving as a staging area for The Brook and likely won’t begin construction until the former is complete sometime next year.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The nearest subways from the property are the B, Q, and R trains at the DeKalb Avenue station and the 2, 3, 4, and 5 trains at the Nevins Street station. An entrance to the DeKalb Avenue station is located on the development plot but is temporarily closed during construction.
The Brook is slated to finish construction in September 2025, as noted on site.
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Another nice big building with prices that probably won’t match what people are willing to pay in that specific neighborhood. Retail and dining in immediate vicinity are not matched to the tenants they are trying to attract- just look at sales at the super-tall next door!
Very good point .
Very true, the buildings in this area are way overpriced compared to what the market will bear here. I smell some tasty rental concessions!
At least this one is all rentals and not condos
Looking on its located that corners of the edifice look like structures in Times Square, so don’t put an LED screen on it: Thanks to Michael Young.
I am beginning to really dislike the proliferation of busy, colorful, overwrought murals on lot line walls, as seen in rendering of 555 Fulton. They always try to hard and just intrude on everything else.
Downtown Brooklyn becoming more un truly affordable, which those rents will probably be high price middle income and market rate units and then call it (affordable) this will be the trend for the city of greed, oh I mean yes
Amazing to think that some ‘supertalls’ are twice the height of this impressive building..
It’s not beautiful, but it is well detailed with high quality materials, and it’s a very nice addition to Brooklyn’s skyline.
Great shots and still shocked at how incredibly fast this one went up
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: ain’t no way 555 Fulton Street isn’t eventually turned into a tower after the adjacent holdout finally sells.
Agreed. I think the orientation of this tower being parallel with Flatbush and rather thin kind of anticipates this. I would like to see some breathing room for the Dime Savings Bank plaza by stepping back the tower a bit when it does likely eventually get built.
More supply of housing reduces the cost of housing.
I couldn’t help to notice how eerily empty the streets seem to be.