Brooklyn Eagle Building on the Market
Massey Knakal has a new, $3,000,000 listing for 30 Henry Street, which is home to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The property is being pitched as a development site with around 16,500 buildable square feet. According to Property Shark, the building that houses The Eagle was constructed in 1963; the listing says that the paper has…
Massey Knakal has a new, $3,000,000 listing for 30 Henry Street, which is home to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The property is being pitched as a development site with around 16,500 buildable square feet. According to Property Shark, the building that houses The Eagle was constructed in 1963; the listing says that the paper has a $9,400, month-to-month lease of the commercial space that also includes one of the structure’s two apartments, and the other rents for $1,400 a month. This a fair price tag for prime Brooklyn Heights?
30 Henry Street Listing [Massey Knakal] GMAP
Photo from Property Shark.
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It’s not the historic district that imposes the 50-foot height limit; it’s the LH-1 zoning designation.
The school planned for Dock Street DUMBO (the name BoerumHill couldn’t think of) is 45,000 square feet, far larger than this site could sustain. Further, I disagree with 2000’s assessment that project is stalled. Watch it break ground almost immediately after St. Ann’s Warehouse moves to the Tobacco Warehouse.
And I really question the causality in NorthHeights’ 11:04 post.
The Cadman Plaza redevelopment plans of the early 1960’s was the largest urban renewal project in the city. That alone makes it very significant. It was this “slum-clearance” project that gave Heights residents the impetus to have most of the Heights designated an historic district. The first one. An experiment really.
Believe me, based on the old 1960’s photos of Brooklyn Heights, most Americans would have concurred with the “slum” status.
But things have picked up since then. Hundreds of old Heights buildings have been restored and brought back from the brink of collapse and dereliction and today Brooklyn Heights is “as it has always been”.
Minard: I disagree that the old buildings across the street were “no great shakes” (they could have been rehabilitated) but that wasn’t actually my point. I would have been OK with the tear-down and redevelopment IF the new buildings actually maintained active street life. But instead we got towers with no street presence whatsoever, and an open air parking lot next to the townhouses.
Which is exactly the reason why since2000 writes “many businesses on this stretch of Henry St. have died a quick or lingering death.” Of course they do – there’s not much lingering pedestrian traffic that active mixed use would create; instead, just people bustling to/from the subway and cars driving in/out of the Heights – but not enough destinations to make them stop.
The Dock Street development is stalled; it’s not happening anytime soon. Anyway, I disagree: this corner would be the perfect spot for a small middle school or, even better, a middle school annex to PS 8. It’s not the right place for commercial development, and many, many businesses on this stretch of Henry St. have died a quick or lingering death.
I have seen old photos of the buildings across the street from this that were torn down when they built the new towers and townhouses in the 1960’s. Frankly, they were no great shakes.
Beautiful buildings were demolished along Court Street and Adams Street, but that was for the creation of Cadman park and the new courthouse.
If it wasn’t for the garages in those “hideous” towers, Brooklyn Heights residents would have to park their cars up their wazoos as the Love Lane garages are no more.
As time goes by I am appreciating those buildings more and more. They are real middle-income housing in a convenient location and I really like the 1960’s townhouses, which most do not even know exist. Maybe Montrose will showcase them some day.
This building is a blot on the neighborhood and should die a quick death. This used to be a bustling mixed use corner (long before anyone coined the term “mixed use”!) until Robert Moses and company built the monolith diagonally across with no street presence whatsoever, the low-rise housing on the east side of Henry with an open air parking lot on the corner (blech!), and left these lots for dead. Which resulted in the characterless warehouse seen today. No serious commercial activity is going to return to this corner today, but a nice apartment building with retail on the ground level corner would be a vast improvement.
Where are all of the high-density housing nutjobs when we need them?!
I think this site is too small for a middle school, whatever your other feelings on the topic.
The Fulton Ferry school is actually being built/funded by Two Trees – that was the trade off for getting their view killer approved (sorry, having a middle age moment…can’t remember what the new building is called).
Minard covered it completely. Plus way too small for a school.
A couple of facts: Yes this is in the historic district but no, this building is not a contributing building and therefore can be demolished if the LPC approves a replacement that is deemed Appropriate.
The 50-foot height limit is separate from the historic district status. It is a City Planning requirement. Similar height restrictions are in place in Cobble Hill and in other districts.
The new middle school for the area is going to be in the new residential building to be built across from the Empire Stores in Fulton Ferry. Why would the DOE plan to build another one here?