

Photographer Tracy Collins has filled in the blanks regarding those development sites. Above and at left are the two buildings that make up 342-354 Flatbush Avenue, on the south side just east of Sterling Place. The top photo shows the low-slung Nephrology Foundation of Brooklyn, where numerous people come daily for dialysis.
Other properties along Flatbush closer to Fifth Avenue (and the Atlantic Yards site) contain medical offices connected with New York Methodist Hospital. I've been told those and other medical properties along Flatbush signed long leases decades ago, when the shopping strip was moribund. Assuming an arena and further development arrive, those sites would become much more lucrative for retail and entertainment.

Along with the site above, the Sun reported that the Pintchiks plan new buildings at 162-170 Flatbush Avenue just east of Pacific and across from the planned Miss Brooklyn (right), 250-258 Flatbush Avenue just east of St. Marks Avenue (below), and perhaps another building nearby on Bergen Street:
Preliminary plans have already been drawn up for the buildings, which [Matthew Pintchik] said would be designed in a "seaport cast-iron" and "great brick" style.
"They will not be modern buildings," he said. "They will be crisp, with great light and air, but fitting the neighborhood."

Thus ensued a barrage of comments on what effect (and for whom) Atlantic Yards might have.
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