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The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy.

Address: 80 Cranberry Street, corner of Henry St.
Name: The Cranlyn Apartments
Neighborhood: Brooklyn Heights
Year Built: 1931
Architectural Style: Art Deco
Architects: H.I. Feldman
Landmarked: Yes

Why chosen: This is a classic Art Deco apartment building. It’s got the massing of shapes with the ziggurat cuts in the upper floors, with their penthouse terraces, and decorative bands of alternating brick colors, and some really nice terra-cotta trim. Especially nice are the terra-cotta peacock motifs above the side entrances on Cranberry. H.I. Feldman, a Yale educated architect, designed a lot of apartment buildings in Manhattan and the Bronx, especially during the 1930′s and ’40′s. He embraced both Art Deco and Modernism in his middle class buildings. Many of his Bronx buildings are on or near the Grand Concourse, the Bronx’s Striver’s Row. Here in Brooklyn Heights, he also designed 55 Pierrepont and 70 Remsen, which are way different in style from his Deco buildings. They will be individual BOTD’s at a later date. The Cranlyn towers over its brownstone neighbors, but its place on the corner of Henry, down the street from the St. George Hotel, and near the much later Cadman Plaza highrises works well, and it all balances out. Most people pass here without even noticing what a great building this is. Next time you are here, look up!