Topic summary
MetroTech Center
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Brooklyn Commons.
History
MetroTech Center was formed in 1992 by making a 16-acre (65,000 m) rectangle of downtown Brooklyn into a superblock (bounded by Jay Street, Johnson Street, Flatbush Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue), to allow the erection of new office buildings and parking garages. Dozens of older buildings had to be demolished in order to clear this space for the construction of the new center. The entire area was designated a pedestrian zone, and, as a consequence, the north ends of Lawrence and Duffield Streets were closed to automobile traffic.