The 22nd-tallest building on our year-end countdown is The Brook, a 601-foot-tall residential skyscraper currently finishing up construction at 567 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management, the 51-story structure spans 557,973 square feet and yields 591 rentals with an average scope of 827 square feet. The project also features 68,693 square feet of retail space, a cellar level, and two floors of recreational and sports amenities. The residential program will include 178 affordable units. The property is bounded by DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Flatbush Avenue Extension diagonally to the east, and Bond Street to the west.
The construction hoist was disassembled from the wide eastern elevation along Flatbush Avenue Extension since our last on-site update in mid-May, and the ensuing gap in the façade has been filled in. With work fully finished on the main tower, crews have shifted to wrapping up the podium, where sections of the first story remain incomplete.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The Brook. Photo by Michael Young.
The following renderings depict the retail frontage at the southern tip, and the main entrance along Fulton Street.
The Brook at 567 Fulton Street. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
The Brook at 567 Fulton Street. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
The lobby at The Brook at 567 Fulton Street. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
Additional interior renderings preview a typical living room and bathroom.
A living room space. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
The Brook at 567 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn via NYC Housing Connect
An expansive communal terrace on the highest floor provides residents with views of the New York Harbor to the west and Midtown, Manhattan to the north.
An upper-level terrace at The Brook. A bedroom. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
Other amenities include an outdoor swimming pool on the lower levels, an indoor basketball court, a game room, and a coworking lounge.
An outdoor swimming pool at The Brook. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
A basketball court at The Brook. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
A co-working lounge at The Brook. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
A game room at The Brook. Rendering courtesy of NQS Creative.
The development will also include a separate low-rise retail structure at 555 Fulton Street on the opposite end of the city block. Co-developed by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the building will feature 14,361 square feet of retail space across its ground floor and cellar level, as well as an outdoor roof deck. Bjarke Ingels Group is set to design the surrounding streetscape.
Work has yet to commence on this component, which is shown in the below rendering.
555 Fulton Street. Rendering by NQS Creative
555 Fulton Street. Photo by Michael Young.
Taiwan-based restaurant chain Din Tai Fung has signed a lease to occupy roughly 20,000 square feet of The Brook’s retail space with a 2027 opening date.
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.
Residential occupancy began in November, and YIMBY expects all remaining work on The Brook to conclude within the first half of 2026.
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Breathtaking!
I will be shocked if the lowrise at 555 Fulton is actually completed. This would be so underutilized if it isn’t made a tower.
I assume that’s on purpose and they transferred air rights from 555 over to the high-rise. Probably a good move, since you preserve a little sunlight onto Albee Square and also onto the old bank dome.
This could be a 1960s conversion to housing. It’s a very good retro design that compliments its neighbor, The Brooklyn. Now we just need a third shorter building called The Bro.
Frank and Kramer would approve.
If the MTA wasn’t so secretive we’d actually know what was going on with the DeKalb station entrance. If it turns out they’re actually trying to preserve that ugly and decrepit old concrete entry I’m giving up all hope for this agency.
I’m surprised Din Tai Fung chose to have their second location in Downtown Brooklyn. I was imagining somewhere else like Lower Manhattan or Long Island City.
The building came out a lot nicer than I thought. With Din Tai Fung opening their Brooklyn location in the podium of this building, it might signal a change for the types of businesses developers can bring to the neighborhood. Despite the abundant luxury apartments in Downtown Brooklyn, there are near zero businesses that seemingly would appeal to the folks who live there/that are within that income bracket, forcing residents to go to Manhattan or Williamsburg instead for shopping and hip restaurants. Maybe this will change that.
This building seems very nice. The lobby with its jungle wall seems a bit much.
..Like the ‘stone walls and vines’ at the JPMorgan Chase building entrance.
Some of the facade panels look pretty low quality. The general color and texture make it seem like it’s supposed to be white but is filthy.
Yeah, I know others here are hot on this, but to me this building feels like it aimed for elegant but just missed the mark and came out blah instead. A testament to how tricky color and material actually is because I think the form/panels are proportionally quite nice (though there’s faces where they are unequal sizes which drives me crazy).
Not bad. Bklyn has unique angled building sites that Manhattan does not. This could have better taken that into account. Oh, I know it costs more to build that way.
Ugly gray rectangle on the skyline. What a stupid loss of opportunity to build a remotely interesting flatiron building, given the prominent sharp angle triangular lot.