Former Jehovah’s Witness Dorm Becomes Luxe Senior Living Facility in Brooklyn Heights

[Isabella]

The former Leverich Towers Hotel at 21 Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights has had many lives—a residential hotel for wealthy Brooklynites, a Yiddish radio station and apartments for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Now it’s being renovated into a high-end senior living facility where typical rooms rent for $10,000 to $16,000 a month.

https://commercialobserver.com/2020/02/former-jehovahs-witness-dorm-becomes-luxe-senior-living-facility-in-brooklyn-heights/#slide3

[The Librarian]

This was not just any dorm....

The Governing Body lived in the corner suites from the 9th floor up.  I think we lost a video from went it went up for sale. 

What a beautiful location. I wish we could have kept. But I think they have improved their security in a more country location now.

[Arauna]

I bet the building has a lot of nostalgia for some people.

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

And made a lot of money for 'some people' too 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Looking at the photos, it seems they have removed the three diving boards mounted to the roof parapet.

(Old Timers will understand the joke ....)

[Isabella]

More photos: https://www.6sqft.com/luxury-senior-housing-set-to-open-in-brooklyn-heights-former-leverich-towers-hotel/

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

Ah is that where those poor GB members used to live, poor guys. 

[Isabella]

Vicious stabbing on quiet Brooklyn Heights street Tuesday morning

NYPD investigating Clark Street attack

 

A construction worker was stabbed in the chest in a shocking attack on Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights on Tuesday morning.

Police from the 84th Precinct responded around 6:39 a.m. to a 911 call about a man with multiple stab wounds in front of 59 Clark Street, an empty storefront next to Hans Market deli.

EMS transported the victim to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he remains in stable condition, according to NYPD spokesperson Sergeant Jessica McRorie.

Police blocked off the scene with crime tape as commuters walked to the Clark Street subway station, just feet away, and parents accompanied their children to nearby schools.

Detectives from the 84th Precinct interviewed construction workers The Watermark at Brooklyn Heights, a former Jehovah’s Witnesses property at 21 Clark St. being converted into luxury senior residences. An investigator at the scene said the victim had been working at that project site, which is surrounded by scaffolding.

“Our thoughts are with the victim, who is thankfully expected to make a full recovery,” Peter Wilk at Wilk Marketing Communications, the spokesperson for the 21 Clark Street redevelopment team, told the Brooklyn Eagle.

Read more: https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/02/04/vicious-stabbing-on-quiet-brooklyn-heights-street-tuesday-morning/