Construction is complete on 570 Fulton Street, a 23-story residential building along the border of Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fischer Rasmussen Whitefield Architects and developed by Goose Property Management, the structure spans 128,872 square feet and yields 163 rental units. The project also includes ground-floor retail space, a cellar level, and an undisclosed collection of amenities. Forty-nine of the apartments are dedicated to affordable housing for residents making 80 to 130 percent of the area median income. The building stands on a 7,200-square-foot interior lot between Rockwell Place to the east and Flatbush Avenue to the west.
A tremendous amount of progress has occurred since our last on-site update in July 2024, when the reinforced concrete superstructure had just begun ascending above street level following a stall in construction. The building rises uniformly up to the 16th story, where a terrace spans the western half of the northern elevation and a series of stepped setbacks creates additional private outdoor space on the eastern end. Balconies with glass railings protrude from the entire main face along Fulton Street.
The façade is composed of vertically ridged metal paneling. The lower levels are clad in red and orange hues, matching the appearance of the brick used on the neighboring structure to the west, while the upper floors above the main setback feature a gray finish. Black metal lines the edges of each floor plate and frames the recessed floor-to-ceiling windows and glass balcony doors. The first two stories are enclosed in black stone.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
570 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
Units come equipped with dishwashers, air conditioning, hardwood floors, energy-efficient appliances, and name-brand kitchen appliances, countertops, and finishes. Tenants are responsible for electricity including stove and heat.
Residential amenities include pet-friendly policies, package lockers, bike storage lockers, a shared laundry room, storage, gym, yoga and dance studio, recreation room, business center, virtual doorman, and a rooftop terrace.
The closest subways from the ground-up development 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 along the intersection of Nevins Street and Flatbush Avenue Extension.
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I miss the old Slate Project; they were going to take it through ULURP and double the height.
A fine building lost in a sea of mediocrity
Bit of a Blade Runner streetscape, interesting to look at, but not particularly sure I’d want to live there..
..and I don’t see any bodegas on the corner, I don’t know if I could make it without one 🙂
A nice design ruined, once again, by raw concrete balconies. It’s just so dumb.
Agreed, should have wrapped the black channel band around.
The best balcony is no balcony. A recessed loggia is infinitely more desirable and in this person’s opinion a operable-glassed in loggia more still.
Yes!
I love your suggestion for recessed loggia(s). But any quirks and finish deficits aside, I love the color. I am so happy NYC developers have built a fair number of green, orang/red designs lately. I’m not asking for the entire city to become a rainbow, but it’s nice to have some variation ever few blocks.
I like it. Something different
Affordable = close to market rate units, especially in that area, know truly affordable housing
I have seen several buildings with this copper tone finish. Does anyone know what it is and how long it will retain its coloration. I like it.
It appears to be painted metal, most likely aluminum. The colors are too vivid to be anodized aluminum, at least I think. It’s obviously not oxidized so it’s not some sort of weather finished steel. Plastic is flammable thus illegal, so it’s not that. Could be ceramic but I think painted aluminum is a much better guess.
It appears to be painted metal, most likely aluminum. The colors are too vivid to be anodized aluminum, at least I think. It’s obviously not oxidized so it’s not some sort of weather finished steel. Plastic is flammable thus illegal, so it’s not that. Plus the article does say it’s metal, but take that for what it’s worth.
Very nice building with veranda nice colors 👍
From the outside, this building looks strikingly different than others nearby. I desire to use this opportunity to point out something as concerns the saturation of new hi-rise buildings in that area. The local area now had hundreds err thousands of new apartments. But the surrounding area has not seen any increase in governmental services such as new FDNY Firefighters in local firehouse. No increase in ambulances to aid the sick or sanitation workers to collect your trash. The dirty little secret is garbage collection is hit or miss and often trash is not picked up. Whoa but there more. Local post offices are very slow. More people moving in means more trash to pick up, more mail to deliver, more police will be needed along with more ambulances to serve medical needs. Local city, state and federal elected public officials have blood on their hands due to their complete failure of leadership on this matter. Finally, to all people thinking of moving in—look before you leap.
There’s an adage in real estate about building residential now and the needed retail will follow. Apparantly the thought is this will eventually be the case for city/gov services?
How affordable are these units going to be for people like me, a retired teacher to be able to afford the rent in this building ?
Not
Brooklyn needs truly affordable housing for ssi n elder people most of these buildings only high income earners can b afford smh
Why should the elderly get the preferential treatment when the younger generation that pays taxes are suffering from high rent too? Living in NYC is a choice, not birth rights and no one should feel entitled to live there at the expense of tax payers