52 Clark Street Going Condo?
Something’s afoot at 52 Clark Street, the 141-unit prewar apartment building in Brooklyn Heights. The building is currently a rental, with some of the apartments still covered by rent stabilization. All that may start to change very soon, if an email we received from a resident turns out to be on the money. According to…
Something’s afoot at 52 Clark Street, the 141-unit prewar apartment building in Brooklyn Heights. The building is currently a rental, with some of the apartments still covered by rent stabilization. All that may start to change very soon, if an email we received from a resident turns out to be on the money. According to the email, the tipster has received a couple of notices from the landlord (who’s owned the building since 1999) that her lease would not be renewed. Upon calling the management office, she was told that none of the leases in the building were being renewed. The only possible explanation we can think of? You guessed it, conversion. GMAP P*Shark
Brooklyn Heights really was the nuttiest neighborhood in NYC I think. It must have been home to the largest collection of crazy white folks this side of Bellevue.
When I moved into the neighborhood slightly over a year ago (I’m a renter), this was one of the buildings I looked at.
I saw 3 or 4 different layouts, a few studios, few 1 bedrooms. What I saw was not in good shape, and the studio layouts were terrible, both cases the 1 living room being no bigger than about 15′ x 15′ with doors and/or closets on every wall, significantly shrinking the possible layouts for a bed or furniture. The lobby is nice, it’s nice there’s a doorman, but the place needs major renovation from what I saw.
Howdy neighbor!
There’s more than one slightly nutty tenant in this building, and some are more than slightly nutty.
It’s a relic, really, of a much different era in the Brooklyn Heights demographic.
I live in this building and there has been rumors of turning it into condos for years. I think it would be great, but I also think this current rumor is from just one (slightly nutty) tenant. The building has not really changed hands, but one of the owners did turn it over to his daughter recently, which does make me a little nervous….
I don’t think this building was sold in 1999; I think the owner reorganized as an LLC (and maybe bought out a partner).
Well if they ARE mostly studios, we saw from yesterday’s co-op of the day that studios in the Heights are asking 1000psf.
Maybe they decided to go co-op when they saw you could get 465K for a hole in the wall…
maybe they’ll follow the BH trend and turn it into student housing
You can’t not renew a rent-stabilized or rent-controlled lease (unless the tenant is in default), so I’d imagine that it’s all the market rate places not being renewed. Great lobby and hallways; scary, nasty apartments.
I’m pretty sure this is the building where I was shown some rental apartments about three years ago. I got all excited because the entry/lobby looked really old and lovely, but the apartments were mostly studios which were rather depressing and odd. Can anyone confirm? (And it does sound like the renter is probably NOT stabilized, so if the lease is up, the landlord can just choose to not renew.)