One Clinton

1 Clinton Street | also 286 Cadman Plaza West | Brooklyn Heights | built 2020

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  1. 1962

    The 1962 Brooklyn Heights Library is built on this site, designed to double as a fallout shelter

    The two-story Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which stood on this site before One Clinton, was built in 1962. It was designed to serve as both a library and a fallout shelter. Over the next half century it piled up defects; city and consultant assessments agreed that roughly $9 million of overdue capital work was needed, including new heating and cooling, boiler, roof and elevators.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2014

    September

    The city sells the library site to Hudson Companies for $52 million, and groups oppose the sale

    After the Economic Development Corporation sought redevelopment proposals in June 2013, the library's site was sold to Hudson Companies in September 2014 for $52 million, with about $10 million of that earmarked to fit out a new library. Hudson also committed to build 114 affordable apartments on two other sites in Community Board 2. Citizens Defending Libraries and Love Brooklyn Libraries opposed the sale, and the library moved to a temporary space at 109 Remsen Street.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2017

    March

    Demolition plans for the 1962 library are approved, with two Spampinato bas-reliefs to be removed first

    Demolition plans for the 1962 library on this site were filed and approved in March 2017. Before work could begin, the Public Design Commission reviewed how to remove and store two bas-reliefs by Clemente Spampinato from the facade, on condition that a plan to place them in the new development be submitted by September 2017. Six reliefs from the old facade were eventually reused: two inside the new library's conference rooms and four in the garden of the Walt Whitman library.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2022

    June

    A new three-story branch library opens at the base of the 36-story One Clinton tower

    The new Brooklyn Heights Library opened in the first week of June 2022 at the base of the tower, designed by Marvel Architects. It has a children's area, a community room with a kitchenette and stage, and a mezzanine for teenagers. The 409-foot condominium above holds 134 units, and the building also includes a 9,000-square-foot STEM lab for school district 13.

    Source: Wikipedia

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