MAP: North Brooklyn Will Get 22,000 New Apartments in Next Few Years

Images courtesy of CityRealty. Purple dots represent buildings with a pre-2019 completion date. Blue dots represent buildings with a post-2019 completion date.

A meticulous (and rather apocalyptic) new report from the real-estate listing website CityRealty maps at least 22,000 new apartment units planned for debut in Brooklyn by the year 2019.

And that’s a conservative estimate: The report only takes into account developments with 20 or more units that have already been announced or permitted.

“While Brooklyn has historically been known for its single-family houses, there is a crush of buildings with 20 or more units under construction, many of them rising 10 or more stories and dramatically changing the built environment,” says a CityRealty briefing on the report.

The hardest-hit neighborhood — by far — is Downtown Brooklyn, where 6,412 apartments are set to open in 23 new buildings.

Developers also have big plans for the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods, where 7,349 apartments are set to open in 42 new buildings.

Next in line are Fort Greene and Prospect Heights — which, thanks in large part to a wave of high-rises being constructed along Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, will host at least 2,850 new apartments in nine buildings by 2019.

Here’s the full pre-2019 breakdown.

• Downtown Brooklyn: 6,412 units in 23 buildings
• Williamsburg: 4,341 units in 27 buildings
• Greenpoint: 3,008 units in 15 buildings
• Fort Greene: 1,546 units in 4 buildings
• Prospect Heights: 1,304 units in 5 buildings
• Gowanus: 1,085 units in 5 buildings
• Bushwick: 884 units in 4 buildings
• Brooklyn Heights: 774 units in 6 buildings
• Crown Heights: 671 units in 6 buildinds
• Bed-Stuy: 413 units in 6 buildings
• Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: 341 units in 2 buildings
• Clinton Hill: 307 units in 4 buildings
• Park Slope: 247 units in 5 buildings
• DUMBO: 187 units in 4 buildings
• Boerum Hill: 159 units in 2 buildings
• Windsor Terrace: 73 units in 1 building

Although CityRealty doesn’t include an affordable-housing breakdown in its report, housing analyst Jonathan Miller tells Brownstoner that most of these new apartments are “skewed towards the higher end.”

“The new development doesn’t satiate the demand for typical rental apartments in Brooklyn,” says Miller, who’s also the president of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers.

Here’s a PDF of the entire report, including some insane renderings of the post-2019 Brooklyn skyline. (Also included above.)