Fancy Dodgers’ lodgings and the old Watchtower HQ Its current owner, the Chetrit Group, is renovating it as a boutique hotel. The Watchtower owned the Bossert for three decades before selling it for $81 million in 2012, Finance Department records show. I took this picture of the Hotel Bossert’s lobby when I toured the property in June 2019.
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Instead, head up Joralemon Street into Brooklyn Heights and turn left on Hicks Street, and soon you’ll arrive at another big former Watchtower property, the Hotel Bossert.īefore the Jehovah’s Witnesses owned the landmarked Renaissance Revival-style hotel at 98 Montague St., it was a high-society hot spot where the Brooklyn Dodgers celebrated when they won the World Series in October 1955. It would be easy to spend hours in scenic Brooklyn Bridge Park. The back of the building overlooks the BQE. The condo units on the side of the building facing the park and Lower Manhattan have tremendous views. Levine for $205.02 million in 2004, Finance Department records show. The Watchtower sold the 14-story industrial building to developer Robert A. One Brooklyn Bridge Park’s address is 360 Furman St. Condo building One Brooklyn Bridge Park is a former Watchtower property. The stroll starts at condo building One Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is easily reached via the NYC Ferry, whose Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6/Atlantic Avenue stop is just steps away.
I devised a walk to show you a generous sampling of the former Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO Watchtower properties. Condos in Brooklyn Bridge Park and a historic hotel The Jehovah’s Witnesses also sold off small residential buildings they owned next to the Standish - 161 Columbia Heights went for $2.95 million in 2012 and a carriage house at 165 Columbia Heights went for $4.1 million in 2012, Finance Department records show. That purchaser turned the tower into a rental apartment complex before selling it in 2014 to condo converters DDG and Westbrook Partners for $60 million. In the real world, the Jehovah’s Witnesses sold the Standish to a developer for $50 million in 2007, Finance Department records indicate. Here’s the facade of the Standish, where Matt Damon reportedly owns the penthouse. Actor couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski spent about $11 million for an apartment there, the Wall Street Journal reported in January 2019.Īn interesting bit of trivia from the world of comic books: The building Superman’s mild-mannered alter ego Clark Kent lives in is called the Standish. The star of the Jason Bourne film franchise isn’t the only celebrity who’s believed to own a condo at the landmarked former Standish Arms Hotel, which opened in 1903. A 2012 Hollywood Reporter story identifies Kress as Damon’s manager.
The buy was made through an LLC with Gary Kress as sole manager, Finance Department records indicate. The New York Post reported in December 2018 that the Standish penthouse purchase was Damon’s, and Variety did too, a few days later. I say “at least” because possibly I didn’t find all the transactions when I was checking city Finance Department records. The Watchtower’s Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO property sales added up to at least $2.19 billion.
The Watchtower’s headquarters had an iconic sign, which is shown in this 2017 picture. Many other properties served as residences for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. You could see those blazing red letters on the Brooklyn Bridge and in Lower Manhattan. They made their presence known with an electric sign that said “Watchtower” atop their waterfront world headquarters at 25-30 Columbia Heights. The whole not being allowed to further their education extends to men as well and I'm sure that if you really wanted too no one would judge you to harshly for going through with it.For nearly a century, the Jehovah’s Witnesses were big-time property owners in these two neighborhoods. Most of Jehovahs Witness women I know work. I've never heard about women being pressured to marry and have children in this religion beyond anything more than an overenthusiastic grandma. I left for much different reasons then the ones in this article but thats another problem entirely. Granted, it depends on the people asking the questions but it's still invasive and a massive breach of privacy. I was raised a Jehovahs witness but left when I was 17 because of their homophobic view point, my place as a woman never bothered me but there is something in this article that is true and humiliating, the process in place for those you had sex before marriage, I've known women who had to go through that dehumanising meeting and were rather scarred from it. I agree, a lot of this has been exaggerated.