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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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
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