In a post this past September I speculated about the future of 186 Remsen Street (photo, by C. Scales), which I have long liked as an example of Victorian Romanesque architecture. In the post I noted that the building had been acquired by Up Ventures LLC, who had filed plans for a fourteen story hotel […]
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New Life for 186 Remsen? Bye-bye 192 Montague?
By Claude Scales on January 6, 2019 10:23 pm in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Commercial Real Estate, Development, News, Real Estate

Times Gives Posthumous Recognition to 75 Livingston Architect Abraham Simberg
By Claude Scales on February 23, 2012 5:32 pm in Architecture, Brooklyn Heights, History, Landmark Preservation
The recent designation of the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District brought attention to the thirty story building at 75 Livingston Street, completed in 1928 as the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Building but since converted to co-operative apartments, whose residents opposed the landmarking because they feared it would increase the cost of maintaining the building and […]
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