There Is No Point High Enough In Brooklyn To Help You Forget That You Are In Brooklyn

“It costs up to $67 a ticket for a ride to the top of the Empire State Building. But the view from the highest point in Brooklyn atop a sleek glass-and-aluminum apartment building is free — at least with purchase or rental of an apartment in Downtown Brooklyn’s newest tower. The new building, the first big condominium development in Downtown Brooklyn to come on the market since the financial crisis in 2008, is part of a second wave of residential development that is also bringing high-end groceries and retail stores to the borough’s once-faded central business district.”