Share via Shortlink Chris Whittle and Tishman Speyer’s Rob Speyer with a rendering of The Wheeler at 181 Livingston Street (Photos via Getty Images and The Whittle School) Signs of a pandemic-fueled market slowdown are obvious when looking at the top office leases in Brooklyn and Queens this year — six out of the 10 deals in The Real Deal’s ranking closed in January and February. But in the few months before the pandemic took hold, several large leases were signed. The sum of top 10 deals in 2020 was 1.44 million square feet, a 20 percent increase from the 2019 total. That was mostly thanks to Whittle School’s 620,000-square-foot lease in Downtown Brooklyn, which was inked in early February. Amazon came in second with a 300,000-square-foot lease in Queens — the only deal in that borough that made the top 10 — that was signed in late February.