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buildingWhenever we make it over to Grand Army Plaza (as we did on Saturday morning to hit the greenmarket), our eyes our drawn up to this large wedge of a building that, in addition to its prewar terra cotta detailing, is particularly notable for its triangular shape. We’re guessing it’s a co-op but don’t know for sure. Anyone ever been inside or know anything about the building’s history?


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  1. I live in 47 Plaza. It’s a wonderful bldg. Lots of very friendly people, nice families. The staff is incredibly friendly and helpful (we have a few young employees, too!).

    Rosario Candela loved puzzles and codes and surely 47 Plaza is one of his most deliberately coded designs. In our apt there is only one conventionally rectangular room (one of the bathrooms).

    The elevator that serves the B&C lines has a wood panel that is pulled out when the penthouse is reached in order to open directly into the penthouse.

    By the way, the only other pre-war bldg designed by Candela in Brooklyn is on the same block, the elegant 39 Plaza St West, designed in 1926 for the same developer, Jacob Marc, who wanted to make Plaza Street the “Park Avenue District” of Brooklyn.

  2. Besides a wonderful design, elegant lobby, great doormen, the building is a coop, with corresponding maintenance fees…a recent mid-floor 3B apartment facing Union street recently went for $1.1 M