Bed-Stuy's Fat Albert Building Will House New BKLYN Commons Co-Working Space

BED-STUY, NY — The Fat Albert Warehouse building at 774 Broadway, near the Flushing Avenue J and M subway station, will soon be home to a new co-working space run by BKLYN Commons, the Real Deal reported Monday.

The Brooklyn-based workspace company has signed a 10-year lease for half of the second and third floors — and the full fourth floor — of the Fat Albert building at the border of Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Williamsburg,

The Fat Albert Warehouse is an expansive discount store that many in Bushwick and Bed-Stuy love to hate.

"Thank god for dark, dank, cheap stores in the hood," one user wrote on its Yelp page. "Got a vegan leather jacket, pencil skirt, and bra for less than thirty dollars. SoHo and Nolita will never best that. Hipsters don't know what they are missing."

A Fat Albert employee told Patch on Monday that she had no idea a co-working space was going in the building.

At $300 a month for an "open desk," BKLYN Commons might be a bit out of place over Fat Albert. The company aims to "provide entrepreneurs, start-ups and freelancers alike with a range of flexible workspace solutions," it says on its website. "Options include fully-furnished private offices ranging in size from single individual suites to 8-person group rooms as well as open or dedicated desks."

The Brooklyn Lollipop Import Company owns the building at 774 Broadway, and it owns the building where BKLYN Commons bought its first office at 495 Flatbush Ave. in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, where there is also a Fat Albert.

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