I don't think it's that building: the visual description matches, but Brownsville has (thus far) resisted the gentrification that the author describes in the as

I don't think it's that building: the visual description matches, but Brownsville has (thus far) resisted the gentrification that the author describes in the associated area. My educated guess is that the building in question is somewhere in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, or maybe Bushwick.