The Brooklyn Tower has 92 stories reaching into the sky, defying God, but how can an apartment building where they're playing "Island in the Sun" by Weezer in the lobby be "evil"? The spires that crown the top of Brooklyn's first "supertall" may look like a deliberate evocation of Tolkien's Barad-dûr, but everyone is so nice here.
The foreboding Brooklyn Tower, the tallest building outside of Manhattan, was built between 2018 and 2022. Plagued by delay and disputes that eventually put the tower into foreclosure, it seemed like the building might be cursed. But all of that hasn't prevented the tower from opening for condo purchases and rentals.
As I'm waiting for my tour of studio 19J (net rent of $3,500, once you factor in a "free" month and a half), a mildly preppy guy who looked to be in his 30s wearing shorts, sneakers, and a baseball cap—a tenant in one of the rentals that make up the lower half of the tower's housing stock, I imagined, or perhaps a condo owner near the top—comes down to the lobby just to chat with the cheery doorman and the janitor mopping the greige tiles.
