Brooklynites Can Work Near Home as Offices Start to Rise

When Toby Moskovits was a little girl and her grandfather repaired Army uniforms in a factory near Brooklyn’s Williamsburg waterfront, the area was well into its decline as an industrial center.

Now, a couple blocks away, she’s planning what may be the borough’s first ground-up speculative office project in four decades. The building she calls the Williamsburg Generator won’t be your father’s workplace, with just desks, phones and computers. In Moskovits’s Brooklyn, an office can accommodate light manufacturing, or space for product testing.