We Have Seen the Future and It Is Tall. Very, Very Tall.

Forget New York Magazine’s breathy Futurama-World’s Fair like vision of NYC in 2016. If you want a sense of Brooklyn’s future, the interesting read is the Real Deal’s article, Record High Rises Set for Brooklyn. Let’s briefly quote some words that make the threat of killer hurricane slamming into Brooklyn almost seem tranquilizing:

More than 15 towers at least 20 stories tall are planned for the borough, including in Downtown Brooklyn, along the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront, and in Dumbo. The rush to construct the tall towers follows major rezonings by the city and will lead to a north Brooklyn that looks like Battery Park City, Trump's Riverside South or the Miami skyline, depending on who's doing the talking.

The new vertically-inclined borough will also have half a dozen projects taller (in terms of number of stories) than the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, now the tallest building in Brooklyn.

The fun ranges from a 40-story residential building at 306 Gold Street (at Flatbush and Tillary) to the 33-story J Condo in Dumbo and the very, very large Edge and Palmer’s Landing developments in Williamsburg. It quotes development marketer Michael Shvo saying that the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront will "look like the Miami skyline in five years."

We respectfully differ with Mr. Shvo in that none of the architecture we’ve seen is nearly as imaginative as Miami’s, except for possibly Frank O's Miss Brooklyn, but that presents a slew of other issues. Time to make that future iCal entry for about 2012: Move to nice, quiet place in the Berkshires.