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COURIER L 16 IFE, OCT. 11-17, 2019
BY ROSE ADAMS
Business is at an all time
high!
Developers and architects
celebrated the topping
off of Brooklyn’s new tallest
offi ce building with a tour of
the 34-story skyscraper’s uppermost
fl oor, which offers
views of the Statue of Liberty,
Staten Island, Queens, and beyond.
One Willoughby Square,
located in the heart of Downtown
Brooklyn between Albee
Square West and Duffi eld
Street, will house 27 stories of
lofty offi ce space — each between
12,000 to 14,500 square
feet — when construction
wraps up in fall of 2020. The
building, designed by FXCollaborative
and developed by
JEMB Realty, will combine
contemporary furnishings
with an open, loft-like feel,
according to one of its architects.
“We really wanted to create
something that’s a modern
loft,” said Dan Kaplan, a
senior partner at the architecture
fi rm, FXCollaborative.
VIEWS: The 34th fl oor offers views
of northern Brooklyn and Queens.
Photo by Rose Adams
At 495 feet tall, the Downtown
offi ce tower is the highest
in Brooklyn for an exclusively
commercial building,
but One Willoughby Square
is only the 10th largest tower
overall within the borough,
where it’s edged out by the 512-
feet-tall Williamsburg Savings
Bank and dwarfed by Brooklyn
Point, which at 712-feet is
Brooklyn’s tallest.
The building was designed
to achieve a factory-like look
with fl oor-to-ceiling windows,
exposed ceilings, and an exterior
lined with rows of blue
glazed brick as a nod to Downtown
Brooklyn’s industrial
past, according to Kaplan.
“We wanted something
that felt like it belonged to
Brooklyn,” he said.
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
An unlicensed driver
struck and killed a 10-year-old
boy in Kensington on Saturday
morning.
The driver of a 2002 Ford
SUV was turning left off Seton
Place onto Foster Avenue when
he struck Dalerjon Shahobiddinov
at 10:33 am, hitting the
boy as he cycled in the crosswalk,
according to police.
First responders rushed
the child to Maimonides Medical
Center, where he was pronounced
dead, according to
authorities.
Cops arrested the 29-yearold
motorist at the scene on
charges of failing to yield to
a bicyclist, operating a motor
vehicle without a license, and
failing to exercise due care,
according to authorities.
The tragic accident occurred
just steps from the
boy’s home on Foster Avenue
between Seton Place and E.
Fifth Street, according to police.
Shahobiddinov’s death
marks the 24th bicyclist killed
on city streets this year —
far outpacing the 10 cyclists
slain throughout all of 2018
— which a spokesman for advocacy
group Transportation
Alternatives described as a
“preventable public health crisis”
in calling for additional
street-safety measures.
“We press members of the
New York City Council...to
pass Speaker Corey Johnson’s
Streets Master Plan bill, which
would systematically address
streets across the city...that
have no accommodations for
people on bikes,” said Danny
Harris.
Harris also demanded city
to accelerate Mayor Bill de Blasio’s
‘Green Wave’ proposal ,
which would vastly expand the
city’s bike lane network.
De Blasio tweeted that the
city is already axing parking
spots and installing speedbumps
at the intersection to
improve traffi c safety.
New tallest
offi ce tower
tops out
Unlicensed driver kills 10-yearold
child in Kensington
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