A Brooklyn community board on Wednesday approved a developer’s plan for a 72-story apartment building near Fort Greene Park, which would become the borough’s second-tallest tower once completed.

Two weeks after city officials and Rabina , the building’s developer, presented the plans during a somewhat testy public meeting , Community Board 2 voted 27-5, with two abstentions, to upzone the lot at 395 Flatbush Ext. The new building would hold 1,263 apartments, of which 325 units will be affordable for very low-to moderate-income households.

“It is currently occupied by a very well-known seven-story, very dark black building, which has been there for about forty years,” said Daughtry Carstarphen, chair of the land use committee.

The board’s approval was conditioned on the developer agr

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