PRESENTATION
Architectural design and integration with the community
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Jay Valgora, the project architect, explains how the Brooklyn Yards development is designed to integrate seamlessly with the existing community. The design focuses on creating a transit-oriented development that respects the scale and character of the neighborhood.
- Design aims to 'knit the community back together' by building over the rail cut
- Building heights and styles are commensurate with the scale of the surrounding area
- The project includes a mix of classic Brooklyn walk-up units and six-story apartment buildings
Jay Valgora
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Thank you, Rachel.
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Jay Valgora.
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I'm a partner with Studio V Design And Planning, which is a women minority owned business here in the city of New York.
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I'm a licensed architect and a certified planner.
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I'm happy to take into this.
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This is a really unusual project.
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You can see here from the first slide that it's a very transit oriented site, and that's key.
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And yet in some ways, as Ken alluded, this rail cut creates kind of a slice through the neighborhood.
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It divides the neighborhood, and the opportunity to build on top of it allows us to really knit the community back together again, which you can see a bit in this view here from the south.
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It's very important to us that the design be commensurate with the scale of the community.
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And so we did a great deal of work in order to ensure that the buildings would fit in with the scale.
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I think the order is a little different.
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Let's see which one is next.
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Let's let's see what comes up here.
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But this gives you an overall view of it, and the renderings were supposed to be a bit more at the end.
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So here you can see the southern view, and, of course, the street is the site is bounded by 59th Street and 62nd Street and goes from the Utrecht Avenue over to 16th Avenue.
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And as Rachel alluded, it's these Very unusual lots that cut through the middle of the block because they're really the vestigial elements of this former rail cut.
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Here on the south side, you can see we're immediately adjacent to the train station on new Utrecht.
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There is a proposal for a small commercial building there of about 10 stories, and then the remainder of the buildings are all six story and four story buildings.
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We really worked with the fabric of this community.
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In other words, we really look to create small classic Brooklyn walk up type units that are really only four stories with a small mezzanine, as well as six story apartment buildings.
UNKNOWN
0:21:02
I'm sorry about the slides.
Jay Valgora
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Are we on the right slide right now?
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I'm just kinda going with it and presenting it as I see it.
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So I I can, you know, keep going.
Rachel Scall
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We don't know it happens.
UNKNOWN
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It says it comes okay.
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Okay.
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It's just trying to coordinate with a person who's controlling this.
Jay Valgora
0:21:19
Yeah.
