City Point is a mixed-use multi-building residential and commercial complex in

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. City Point is, by square footage, the largest mixed-use development in the city. City Point III, standing at 720 feet in height, is currently the second tallest building in Brooklyn (behind the Brooklyn Tower) as well as the fourth tallest on

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(behind the Brooklyn Tower, the Skyline Tower in

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, and

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in Long Island City). City Point was supported by the

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as a sustainable mixed-use development for retail and housing. The project was developed by Albee Development LLC and designed by Cook + Fox architects, and is

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-silver certified. It was expected to create at least 328 construction jobs and 108 permanent jobs. The complex is built over an entrance to the DeKalb Avenue station on the

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's . It is across the Flatbush Avenue Extension from

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's Brooklyn campus, and across Fleet Street from the Brooklyn Tower. City Point is located on the former site of the Albee Square Mall, and its southern entrance is centered on the Fulton Street Mall.

Description and history

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In 2004, the

adopted the "Downtown Brooklyn Plan", which consisted of a series of zoning changes and public works. City Point was one of the winning developments proposed, sitting on municipal-owned land, in an area already well-established as a shopping corridor. The development was stalled in permitting but was helped through by then-Brooklyn Borough President

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, when the developers, Acadia Realty, made donations to a non-profit Markowitz operated. Markowitz and Acadia denied wrongdoing and cast the blame on the insistence of a partner firm, PA Associates, who were later indicted with bribing former New York State Senator Carl Kruger.

Towers

The first tower, City Point Tower I (also known as 7 DeKalb), opened in 2015. It is a 19-story, 225,000-square-foot tower with 200 units of affordable housing, and of retail space. The second tower, City Point Tower II (also known as 1 DeKalb Avenue), or 10 City Point,

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City Tower was completed in 2015 and opened in 2016. It is a 30-story, 335,000-square-foot tower with 440 market-rate units. Andrews classic roadside hamburgers in Dekalb Hall jeh

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A third tower—City Point Tower III, located at 138 Willoughby Street planned to be tall, making it the tallest in Brooklyn in 2020. 9 DeKalb Avenue (now The Brooklyn Tower) surpassed City Point Tower III in height in 2021. It was planned to contain 458 market-rate condo units taking up , with three stories of commercial space occupying . Tower III will be doing business as Brooklyn Point and was being designed by the firm

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. This would be the only for-sale residential development at City Point.

Shopping

Accessible by entrances on Flatbush Avenue Extension and on Fulton Street is a shopping plaza with big box national chain stores, smaller retail shops, a movie theater, bar, and grocery store, as well as restaurants and a 27,000 square foot food court in the basement of Tower II called DeKalb Market Hall. DeKalb Market Hall has 40 different vendors, small businesses based in the New York City area. Between the first and second towers is "the podium", within which was built of retail space, including a 4-floor

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store. and an

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. On January 29, 2017,

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opened its store in City Point Tower II, with a

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opening in June of the same year. A Fogo de Chão restaurant opened on the ground level in April 2024.

Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was installed outside 445 Albee Square in City Point on March 12, 2021. The statue consists of a

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statue, set on a base, depicting

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, the second woman to serve on the

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. The statue was moved in October 2022 and relocated to South Brooklyn Health's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, which opened on May 2, 2023.

Notable tenants

* Fogo de Chão *

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References

External links

City Point official website

DeKalb Market Hall official website

Tower I, "7 DeKalb" official website

Tower II, "City Tower" official website

Tower III, "Brooklyn Point" official website
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