Architecture 101: The Riverside Apartments
Photo by Tim McCormick Once consisting of nine buildings and now only five, the Riverside Apartments at Columbia Place and Joralemon were considered the model of tenemant living when they were built in 1890 by developer Alfred Treadway White using William Field & Son architects. The 280 original apartments were notable for being well-lit and…
Photo by Tim McCormick
Once consisting of nine buildings and now only five, the Riverside Apartments at Columbia Place and Joralemon were considered the model of tenemant living when they were built in 1890 by developer Alfred Treadway White using William Field & Son architects. The 280 original apartments were notable for being well-lit and well-ventilated as well for having running toilets, notes Francis Morrone in his Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. Like many people, we’ve always admired the perforated metal balconies that grace the facade. Morrone observes that there is also “some lovely patterned brickwork up top,” particularly praising the “fine stepped corbeling above the top-floor arcaded loggias.” How is the building run now? Is it market-rate rentals? Are there many old-timers still living there or have they gotten priced out?
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I agree with poster “AG”,
walking by these buildings, you have a nice welcoming feeling, unlike some modern developments.
They are in Willowtown (willowville?) right around the corner from the modern place people didn’t like.. ‘cept me.
I lived there a couple years ago (30 Columbia Place). My apartment was rent-stablized.
I think the guy next door had been there for a long time, maybe 40 years or so.
Whoops. They’re at Columbia Place and Joralemon.
The buildings are on Hicks Street at Baltic. Just in from these, are the worker’s cottages, also not to be missed, these run from Warren to Baltic between Hicks and Henry.
Wasn’t there a big NY Times article about the buildings a few years back?
From what I believe are rent-stabilized bldgs. Seem well run. Not sure which bldg this is – Cobble Hill-Hicks St/Baltic or the one in the Heights – I think Willow Place just above Atlantic.
I know the Mews houses alongside these bldgs in Cobble Hill are individually owned and are quite small and expensive – but too cute for words.
Real English looking – and worth the walk – I think stretches from Baltic to Warren just east of Hicks.
Where are these?
I live two blocks away from this place and I never tire of walking past it.