Brooklyn Heights resident and real estate broker Donald Brennan files this guest post: After reading the ‘Real Deal on Watchtower Properties’ post here last week I got to thinking – a billion dollars, for 25 properties, where did that number come from? While I am aware of the impeccable condition of these properties, inside and […]
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Real Deal on Watchtower Properties
The Real Deal looks at the Watchtower’s Brooklyn Heights real estate holdings and speculates how much the organization could make once it decides to put its remaining properties here on the market: The Real Deal: Over the next decades, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, as it is officially known, bought up some incredibly valuable […]
What’s Up at the Bossert?
This just in from BHB pal Chuck Taylor (Brooklyn Heights’ resident Celine Dion expert… watch him this week on the Biography Channel talking about Shaun Cassidy….): Took this pic today at the bossert… within the past couple days, they’ve installed hideous industrial tape across the entrance step… because some idiot must have tripped and now […]
Eagle: Watchtower Officially Bugging Out of Brooklyn Heights
The Brooklyn Eagle reports today that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has decided to move its headquarters out of Brooklyn Heights. The current state of the real estate market will slow the group’s departure, the article says. The group, while eventually complimented for saving some historic buildings like the Bossert and Standish Arms Hotels […]
Watchtower Buys More Upstate Land, Not Buggin’ Out of Brooklyn Heights…Yet
The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, whose massive landgrab and destruction of many brownstones in Brooklyn Heights was a catalyst of the landmark district movement here over 40 years ago, has purchased more land in upstate Walkill, N.Y. A spokesperson for the religious group, who in the eyes of many […]
Who’s That Man with His Face on a Van?
Mrs. Fink found this van from Rice n Ribs in Augusta, GA parked on Columbia Heights on Saturday morning. There’s a lot of layers going on here: a restaurant named after a James Brown song decorated with a picture of the late Isaac Hayes aka Black Moses and a devout Scientologist parked just a few […]
There Must Be Some Way Outta Here: Watchtower Plans Rockland Compound
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is planning to build an 850 person residential and administrative complex in Rockland County according to the Journal News. The organization paid $11.5 million for the land in Ramapo which is located near its printing facilities in Ulster County. The Watchtower successfully sold a few of its properties in […]
Watchtower Deal on Clark Street
Brownstoner reports today on the purchase of 6-10 Clark Street by Glory Capital. The deal closed in late April (as we noted back in May) and there are now many rental listings on the Awaye Realty website: Brownstoner: Fund Buys Watchtower…: We’re hearing that real estate investment fund Glory Capital purchased a 43-unit apartment building […]
It’s Not Proselytizing, It’s an Invitation
Last weekend our neighbors from the Watchtower were out in full force and knocking on doors in Brooklyn Heights to “invite” us to “Follow The Christ” to the annual District Convention of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. (It’s this weekend at Assembly Hall, 973 Flatbush Avenue, if you’re interested and not otherwise occupied by “worldly acts”.)
BBP Condos Gobbled Up
It's 100 contracts in 100 days with word that they're going for over $1k per square foot. Work on Brooklyn Bridge Park is said to be scheduled to start in late October. Brooklyn Paper: 'Park' Condos Selling: The first luxury waterfront condos within the state’s Brooklyn Bridge Park development are selling at a rate of […]
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