47 Story Building to Rise at Montague and Cadman Plaza West

By on March 24, 2024 10:32 pm in 11201, Architecture, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Development, Real Estate, Sports

According to New York YIMBY developer Jonathan Landau has filed for permits to construct a 47 story mixed commercial and residential building at 205 Montague Street (see photo from Google Maps). While the building now there fronts on Montague, it extends along Cadman Plaza West to Pierrepont Street. It presently houses TD Bank’s branch. Word is that TD will move to another space on Montague. We suspect, and hope, that it will be the space at 183 Montague, formerly occupied by Citibank, which has a pre-built banking layout.

While we don’t have a rendering of what the new building, to be designed by Hill West Architects, will look like, Brownstoner did an illustration of a 700 foot tall building, the maximum allowed for the site. The proposed building is to be 672 feet tall.

One matter of historical note: the building that stood on the site of the present 205 Montague, and that had the address 215 Montague, held the headquarters of the Brooklyn Dodgers until they moved to L.A., and was where the Dodgers made history by signing Jackie Robinson, the first Black baseball player to be signed to a Major League contract. There’s a plaque on the present 205 Montague commemorating this. We presume the new owner will preserve it and put it on the new building.

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  • A Neighbor

    What did the BHA have to do with 80 Flatbush?

  • Nosey Neighbor

    They were one of the groups organizing opposition to 80 Flatbush

    http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/85886#disqus_thread

    Just like they opposed upzoning Downtown Brooklyn. Just like they opposed the Pier 6 towers. Just like they opposed 60 Water St. Just like they opposed rezoning DUMBO. the list goes on.

    It enough that they preserve their own neighborhood. They insist that future generations don’t deserve to have a place in the rest of Brooklyn

  • Banet

    Exactly! Every new resident of these buildings increases the odds of a thriving Montague Street

  • Banet

    Many families at Saint Ann’s have multiple children scattered across multiple grades. The goal was for the kindergarten to be located as close as possible to the rest of the students. With that in mind, anything below Adams Street makes absolutely zero sense.

  • Banet

    Why not?? They’re just a few hundred feet apart, both flanking Cadman Plaza. Honestly, by most every measure this is a superior location.

  • gc

    I have lived in The Heights since 1958 and I have seen it all regarding new building new buildings and higher rents and change in population etc. I paid $90 a month for my studio . Top floor and great view of the Brooklyn Bridge. One other apt. On my floor. So quiet!! I bank at TD Bank and like the exterior. Hope they decide to save and build above it as was mentioned as a possibility in the articale. Time will tell . Hope the building is not too disruptive to the street while being built. A side note. Very thankful we do not have cargo ships passing under our beloved and very used Brooklyn Bridge!!

  • Nosey Neighbor

    Do you not see the irony of decrying this development when you lived in Concord Village, one of the early “slum clearance” projects in what was then the Brooklyn Civic Center?

    The city condemned that whole swath and then sold it off to banks. Families were evicted. You benefited directly from that new housing. Now you don’t want new housing where nothing has been condemned and no one is being evicted?

  • Sw60

    2 different energies 1 at a higher elevation the other at a lower elevation more aggressive heavy foot traffic. There will be buyers will disposable income for this property even s handful of federal and state judges.

  • Sw60

    Quiet tree lined streets between what hours after 9p?

  • Andrew Porter
  • Andrew Porter

    This was the original building at the corner of Montague and Court and Fulton (now Cadman Plaza), as seen in 1909:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1049bd12a5ae56e163513cb724b82a9f6d67ef109404316ccecd1527422821fe.png

  • Effective Presenter

    We agree Columbia Heights is elite.

    We value our harbor/skyline view, Heights Casino, our neighbors, The Promenade, Pierpont Playground, etc.

  • Effective Presenter

    We agree “completely out of context”

    Crowds on economically depressed Montague Street could help, the old days Brooklyn Union Gas had hundreds of employees at 195 Montague Street and 166 Montague Street each day before moving to One MetroTech Center.

  • Effective Presenter

    We love DUMBO not Dumbo.

    We remember Parkers Lighthouse and the great place before Parkers in the same location.

  • Effective Presenter

    The late 1980s a cargo ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge one night.

  • Effective Presenter

    We see no sales of single family Brownstones for a family size apartment with the exception of One Pierrpont Street, we know one family who sold their house bought a beautiful home in that building.

    Maybe that trend will pick up in the future.

    At this time we see Brownstones that are multiple family dwellings bought, tenants paid to move surrender their lease and the house is converted back to a single family house.

    We had one neighbor who sold their beautiful house to move to a full floor co/op on Park Avenue at East 79 Street, her husband explained:

    “My wife has become too much of a lady for Brooklyn “

  • Banet

    Different elevations? Huh? 1 Clinton is pretty much perfectly level with this corner of Montague and Cadman.

    I’ll give you the corner of Montague has higher foot traffic, but I find the walk from 1 Clinton to Montague and Clinton to be a sad walk. Dark, devoid of street life, and narrow.

  • Charlie Petty

    I’m genuinely curious: do you think of Montague as a crowded street?

  • Banet

    I don’t. But that corner of Cadman/Court & Montague – on the south side – always seems a bit chaotic. I think it’s the subway traffic combined with the semi-permanent sidewalk shed.

  • Andrew Porter

    Thank you, Queen Victoria!

  • Nomcebo Manzini

    Their E.D. used to read and respond, so I read her silence as an indication that NN got his/her facts right.

    Just as unions almost always can’t be expected to even consider the “public interest” if it butts heads with their members’, it appears that the BHA is saying to the City, “OUR MEMBERS DO NOT feel that theire’s an affordable housing crisis, so we’ll act in accordance with that perception.”

    I have a similar issue with the recent report that efforts are being made to gum up the building in DoBro by like-minded individuals who would see some 120-year old former dept. store landmarked.

    People, it’s tough enough to get anything built in this city without single-issue (and way overly entitled and out-of-touch) “civic” organizations doing their utomst to throw a spanner in the wheels. Especially, as you point out, when their “standing” is just as dubious as their stance!

  • Andrew Porter
  • Effective Presenter

    Don’t mention it A. Porter anytime happy to help.

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/ Claude Scales

    Cargo ships regularly pass under the Brooklyn Bridge. Dry bulk ships dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to discharge rock salt for use on roads. Others use the East River for passage to and from ports along Long Island Sound.

  • Andrew Porter
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