18 6 Avenue,

Brooklyn, NY 11217

Very clean, very well managed, package room is always orderly, maintenance is extremely responsive if there are any issues in your apartment.

Building management was very slow to take action against a neighbor, who is constantly smoking cigarettes, and policies around bringing guests to the amenity floors are very restricted, so there’s limited utility. It’s a few thousand dollars to rent a private amenity space to throw a party.

It’s very clean and the building staff is amazing! The layout of the apartment is nice as well and the location can’t be beat imo

I do think it’s a little over priced for what you get. I don’t like that there is no ground level outdoor/courtyard space. Also the Lounge doesn’t have a lounge vibe- more like a co working space where You have to remain silent. There is a pool table in there but I think it’s just there for aesthetics. My husband and I went in there to play at 7pm and got stares.
Also there are such strict rules about letting in guests into amenities. For example there is a great view of fireworks from our building but on the 4th of July we were not allowed to bring a single guest to the roof with us. We have been here less than a year and can tell the apts were not built to last

Have some type of waiting list for these holidays that if residents haven’t maxed capacity that you allow someone to bring a guests to.

Amazing amenities, very clean, responsive management, great location

The amenities are restricted a bit too much with the hours of availability.

friendly doormen 24/7, clean, great amenities, modern feel

living above barclays and across from atlantic mall feels a bit weird sometimes - lots of activity and traffic. honking can be heard even on higher floors. some appliances are just okay/their installation seemed to be done quickly. lots of rules and some limited hours for amenity spaces

The amenity spaces are some of the best I've seen in Brooklyn, the appliances are high end, and staff are super responsive to issues and very kind.

The windows have poor seals, letting in a ton of noise from Atlantic Ave, and the floor near the windows sags. The walls are really thin so I can hear my neighbor's subwoofer and conversations.

Fix the windows!

Decent amenity, door mans are very friendly and helpful

There’s constant smell of weed and cigarette travel to my apartment from vent/ shafts, it is so annoying but management was NEVER able to figure which unit is it exactly and wasn’t able to do anything to prevent it from happening again therefore. The walls are also very thin I can hear my neighbor’s tv every night.

Do a unit by unit check on the origin of weed and cigarette smell??

Very nice building, relatively spacious apartments, nice amenities without outrageous fees (similar buildings charge 2x+ the $95/mo fee or charge extra for the pool), well managed, nice area with a ton of restaurants and several parks and extremely convenient with treat transit access. very responsive maintenance (issues usually fixed within hours). Building staff is very friendly. Attending events at Barclays is a breeze.

Got my unit through the Housing Lottery so I have an amazing deal.

Surrounding streets can be a zoo after Barclays events, thankfully it is a very short walk from the subway.

Redesign the work spaces to provide enough outlets and more comfortable seating. Several of the table/chair set ups are entirely the wrong size making them very incomfortable.

Building workers- lobby, maintenance, cleaning, and garbage crew- are very helpful and hardworking; always willing to help someone out. The easy access to the 4th floor gym is amazing, and for a gym within a luxury building, it is one of the better built gyms I've seen in terms of size and equipment available. Amazing city views on the upper levels. They allow dogs/cats in the units. Walls (at least in my unit) are not thin; I almost never hear my neighbors or the residents above or below me. Accessible location to great restaurants, multiple trains, and Prospect Park. The building offers some units through the NYC Housing Lottery program, so if you qualify and get 1 of these units through the lottery, your rent is stabilized through the city- this is how I was able to get my apartment here. All units have large ceiling height windows which allow for a lot of natural sunlight. There is a pool on the very top floor; however, it is SUPER small and it is VERY windy up there.

Cost: the price point (for those paying full price) is not worth it. The lobby is often busy with traffic, people coming in/out, deliveries, people moving in/out constantly, and when you get out of the building, the traffic continues on both on the sidewalk and on the road. While the location offers great access, it comes with a HUGE downside (which to me weighs more than the pros), it is extremely congested, loud, and noisy in this area. The Barclay center is located directly behind the building and often has multiple concerts or sporting events going on all week long. The crowds of people and cars in the few blocks that surround this building becoming seriously congested, and if you live on a lower level, you will hear it all. Not only that, but both the NYPD and FDNY have stations right down the block, and at ALL hours of the day and night you are hearing sirens going off and the fire truck honking excessively through the snail moving traffic. To add to the outdoor noise, the building management has finally leased out their commercial spaces on the lower levels, which includes a LifeTime Fitness that is still under construction. The excessive noise from this project starts at 7AM - 5PM, 7 days a week. Of the 12 months I have lived here, I have not gone a day without listening to the drilling, hammering, breaking, and building of whatever is going on with this project. If you work from home, this is your worst nightmare. I am sure the noise levels don't affect floors 12+, but any unit below that likely hears everything from the outdoors plus this gym project. Next, on top of the high rent, the amenities are also a separate expense, which already seems absurd. Most luxury buildings elsewhere, this cost is built into the rent; it is not a separate fee, and all residents have access to the amenities. Here, you're going to pay $95 for "amenity access" and an additional $25 for the bike storage access space (which only covers ONE bike space, and they do audit to ensure you only have 1 bike there). Next, the heating/cooling units are really subpar- they make a ton of noise if you have to use them. Depending on what floor you live on, and who your neighbors are, the trash room most likely will be a nightmare. Many of the residents here do behave very entitled, and often leave their trash lying around in the room, even though there is a simple trash chute that is extremely easy to use; many people are too lazy to bother recycling, so they often will dump random garbage into the bins that CLEARLY say "recycling only." At least 6 out of 7 days a week, I walk into the trash room on my floor, and find it to be a HUGE mess (garbage leaking, garbage bags broken with trash hanging out, boxes not folded or packed down, and recycle bins over flowing with regular trash, not recycling). The garbage crew comes daily, sometimes 2x a day and they clean up thoroughly, and yet, the residents still DO NOT care. Many of the floors smell like marijuana. A lot of barking dogs on various floors, and dog poop and pee all over the nearby sidewalks. Many residents do not curb their dogs, despite various complaints and notices from management. Management appears very useless most days honestly; they do not always approve requests to use an amenity in a timely manner, or reply to emails in a timely manner. Management likes to micromanage the amenities by requiring reservations for almost all aspects of the building; to include the pool (only 1 outside guest is allowed per unit/resident). It also seems they do not manage the lobby and other building staff very well either, as many workers have started and left so frequently in the 1 year I've been here. There are several offices spaces which are really poorly designed: not enough nearby plugs, not enough small-room areas (mostly conference rooms, which usually 1 person will reserve just for themselves). Small office desks/tables get taken up very quickly if you arrive too late in the morning. I lived in NYC all my life (born and raised here) and have lived in neighborhoods all over the place: Queens, the Bronx, uptown, midtown, and downtown Manhattan. This was my first experience living in Brooklyn (so my next statement does not apply to all areas of BK). While this area of Atlantic Ave offers great restaurants and night life, I feel it has become over the top here; attracting a culture of people that don't truly represent New York, and instead represent some illusion of what NYC "luxury" looks like. Unfortunately, Brooklyn Crossing is not it. The high rise is over the top, and over-rated. The quality of craftsmanship in the building and in the units is subpar, although they want you to believe it is all "luxury" material; it is NOT- no real wood floors, kitchen cabinet doors eventually become loose and worn, washer/dryer are tiny and don't wash clothes well, hand-held shower wand begins leaking on random areas of the tubing, kitchen faucet knobs fall off and require fixing, and there isn't much overhead lighting throughout the apartment. I have lived here for 1 year and will NOT be renewing my lease- it is just not worth it. What you pay in rent here, is what you would pay for a mortgage on a $500K home in upstate NY; trust me, because that's my next move out of this apartment. My mortgage payment will be exactly what I've been paying here- except I will have land, ownership, more space, nature, and no noise. Living in this apartment showed me that if I can afford an overpriced luxury unit, I can afford a house and get more for my money. Sorry BKLYN Crossing, this place is NOT worth the hype or the money.

Amenities should be included in rent; bike storage should NOT be a separate expense, and be included at no additional charge; there should be rent credits provided for those living on lower level units who are directly affected by the noise created by the Lifetime Fitness project (it is NOT enough to just send an "heads-up" email about the noise), it was extremely loud and disruptive in the mornings, and went on into the mid-evenings, and on weekends it continued on; the stress of the noise from that project drove me nuts. Vet unit residents more carefully. The cost of rent does not match the service or "luxury" provided in the building. Hire a solid crew of workers, pay them WELL, and provide them with adequate time off; there are too many employees starting and quitting or being terminated in such a short time frame, no one can keep up.

- Very modern apartments
- Amazing amenities (gym with squat racks, 2 lounges)

- Some neighbors can be noisy

Clean, friendly concierge, convenient to transit, issues were addressed quickly by maintenance team

Amenity fee was expensive upon renewal, elevators get busy

Clean, great amenities, responsive supers

Building cut costs in construction to put these on the market. Most units have unfixable issues like constant noise from the HVAC and management did not admit until many emails over many months later.

Central to a lot of restaurants, transportation and grocery

The neighbors can be the absolute worse. My neighbors are smokers and management cannot do anything about the cigarette smoke seeping into our apartment.
The upstairs neighbors, I'm pretty sure are tap dancers or hippies or something because they're always having jam sessions and heavy dance sessions at all times of the day. A lot of the tenants are also self righteous assholes who let their dogs pee and poop right in front of the building and don't pick up.

New appliances and finishes. Gym is great with multiple squat racks. 27th and 51st floors provide a lot of communal space

Pool is for residents only (no guests)