The New York Daily News is reporting that Atlantic Yards’ Miss Brooklyn is slashed more than 100 feet in massive redo:

Miss Brooklyn, the Frank Gehry-designed signature tower of the controversial Atlantic Yards project, has been dumped.
Originally envisioned as a 620-foot residential and commercial tower, the newly named “B1” – or Building One – will be slashed to 511 feet and feature commercial office space only, Gehry said yesterday.

In fact, as Atlantic Yards Report reports, there has been no change in the overall height:

After all, the agreement to keep the tower shorter than the 512-foot Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower was announced as a “concession” on 12/20/06, to coincide with the approval of the project by the Public Authorities Control Board. And I reported in February on developer Forest City Ratner’s apparent plans to make Miss Brooklyn an office tower only.

Also interesting are NY Post renderings of Atlantic Yards visions of blight if all phases of construction aren’t completed. As this Brooklyn Paper rendering shows (altered slightly) from December 1, 2007 the height has been at 511 feet for the last few months.

I suspect this is a combination of issuing renderings of the recent redesign in order to tender new tenants to the now wholly commercial building.