Farragut Residents Push Back on Alloy's Two Navy Street Towers

What happened

Alloy Development is proposing two residential towers in Downtown Brooklyn, rising 73 and 63 stories, on Navy Street. The sites are the former Boys & Girls Navy Yard Clubhouse at 240 Nassau St. and the neighboring P.S. 287 property at 46 Navy St. BK Reader reported the plan on 10/26/2026, citing NY Amsterdam News. The project would add 1,502 apartments, a new public school and community facilities, and it would need a special rezoning approval.

According to the report, 300 apartments would be permanently affordable. Of those, 95 would be for seniors from nearby New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments. The plan also includes a replacement prekindergarten-through-eighth-grade school, a community center, an African art museum, retail space and publicly accessible open space. Alloy estimates the project would provide $470 million in public benefits. Alloy says the market-rate apartments are needed to pay for those benefits.

Residents from Farragut, Ingersoll and Whitman Houses attended a public hearing at Brooklyn Borough Hall on 10/14/2026, under the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). Some supporters pointed to jobs and youth programs. LaShawn Doyle, CEO of the basketball-focused group Bucketfam, said Alloy has let his company use the facility for free. Opponents said the towers are out of scale and that market-rate units could speed up gentrification and displacement. They asked for lower heights, more affordable housing, and enforceable protections against construction dust, noise and traffic. Resident Sam Blackwell said the project should be half the size with twice the affordable housing.

Community Board 2 submitted 45 recommendations. Alloy has said some of them would require cooperation from city agencies. Brownstoner's daily roundup on 10/23/2026 also led with local opposition to towers and high rents in Alloy's proposed Downtown Brooklyn rezoning, but gave few details.