Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Plans For Jehovah’s Witnesses HQ, Pier 5 Uplands Progress

Bed Stuy Brownstone With Sleek Kitchen Reno, Original Details Asks $1.85 Million

Here’s a Bed Stay brownstone that’s newly renovated — and not by flippers. Some care and expense went into updating this one, a late 19th century Romanesque Revival that sits at 611 Macon Street, between Malcolm X Boulevard and Patchen Avenue. Twenty feet wide, it’s a two-family, with a one-bedroom rental on the garden level and a three-bedroom duplex above.

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Crown Heights Three-Bedroom With Parking Space, No Fee Asks $2,300 a Month

Here’s a Crown Heights three-bedroom in nice shape with no fee that roommates could share for under $800 apiece. It’s on the second floor of a semi-detached house at 1616 Carroll Street, on the neighborhood’s eastern end.

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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5 Uplands Preps for Summer Opening (Photos)

Another piece of the complicated puzzle that is Brooklyn Bridge Park is showing signs of progress. The Pier 5 Uplands are well under way, a recent visit to Brooklyn Bridge Park revealed. When complete the new park section will add 4.6 acres to the park. It will include a boathouse for park programming and a facility for park operations.

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Brooklyn Heights Two-Bedroom Condo in Superman’s Building Asks $2.435 Million

Here’s a two-bedroom spread in the Standish, the former apartment hotel at 171 Columbia Heights that’s being turned into ultra-expensive condos sporting East River views. The 12-story Beaux Arts building has an interesting history — Superman once lived here, for one thing. Designed by Frank S. Lowe and built in 1903, it was originally called the Standish Arms, which DC Comics fans will recognize as the name of the building where Clark Kent dwelled in Room 5H.

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Kushner and Partners Set to Transform Former Jehovah’s Witnesses HQ Into Posh Offices, Stores

The iconic former headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which dominated the Brooklyn landscape from its highly visible perch in Brooklyn Heights close to the Brooklyn Bridge for decades, will take on a new life as an office and retail campus, its owners, who include Jared Kushner, announced Wednesday.

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