161 Columbia: See Inside First On-The-Market Rental Unit

The Watchtower residential property at 161 Columbia Heights that sold March 20 for $3 million and returned to the market 10 days later as a rental is now being marketed by Ideal Properties Group, with the first interior images online for a 1-bedroom unit for $2,895/month.

The descriptor: “This spacious 1-bedroom apartment is newly renovated with hardwood flooring, stainless appliances and granite countertops in the kitchen, new vanity in the bathroom and oversized windows to let in lots of light. There is laundry and storage available in the basement. This beautiful building holds all charm that one could hope for in Brooklyn Heights while enjoying modern amenities.” The unit comprises living room, bedroom, kitchen and bath.

The newly named “161 Heights,” comprises 6,273 sf in the five-story walk-up, and offers one bedrooms starting at $2,895 a month; one studio for $1,995 a month; and one 2BR, asking $4,100.

In addition to seven fair-market apartments, the building has one rent-stabilized and two rent-controlled units. See the property’s website here. The listing is managed by Massey Knakal Realty Services, which also sold a Johovah’s Witnesses-owned multi-residence at 50 Orange Street, to buyer Sugar Hill Capital Partners in January for $7.1 million. The Ideal Properties agent is Michael Colombo.

(Photos: Ideal Properties Group)

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  • lori

    I checked the place out last Saturday. The bedrooms were very small. They were originally offering rentals starting April 1, but that didn’t happen. There was still a lot of construction going on April 7th and I could not look at all the available apartments because of the work going on. There are three “leftover” tenants in the building who are staying on (the two rent control and one rent stabilized units).

  • q

    Looks very Home Depot.

  • Mark

    How does a realtor say it has a new kitchen and bath, but not show any photos of it? That is a great way to market an apartment, let me tell you.

  • GHB

    “161 Heights”? Really?

  • David on Middagh

    GHB,

    Yes, the name “161 Heights” is a bit… presumptuous? But then, “161 Columbia Heights, That’s Heights, Not Place, Not Street” might sound defensive. 161 is not a prime number, or they could have gone with “The Primelyn”. (A really daring name would have been “7 x 23″. But this isn’t Manhattan.)

    Maybe a historically JW property should simply be called “The Friedrich”. It sounds dignified to my ears, anyway.

  • Sally

    I guess that it makes sense not to release pictures of kitchens and baths n the final stages of renovation…

  • Andrew Porter

    Over-sized windows. As opposed to … what? Obviously have to be big enough to let those photons in…

  • AnnOfOrange

    Anyone check out the floor plans for the 1-bedroom apartments? You have to go through the kitchen to get to the bathroom!

  • http://www.collins.net.pr/blog dean collins

    these were designed as small short stay apartments for people staying in town on short term basis for religious reasons.

    yes it is going to be small.

    yes it is going to be home depot.