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.
I’m pretty sure the 50 foot limit applies not just to the streetwall, but of course there are all sorts of things allowed up on the roof that with some creative design can push the effective limit several feet higher than the stated maximum – so the effect is the same as a streetwall limit.
AP, are you sure there was a church? All the photos and maps I’ve seen showed stores.
Originally, there was a church on this corner. Ironically, it was visible on the website for the Peaks Mason Mints redevelopment, now off-line.
The 50 foot limit is for the entire site. Otherwise, you could build a 50 foot high structure next to the sidewalk, then a 300-foot high tower set back from the sidewalk. This has never happened in BH, never will.
I am fairly sure the 50 foot limit is the street wall. Higher would be allowed set back. A corner lot is allowed more coverage. what ever is gong there will need Landmarks approval with Brooklyn Heights Association and CB 2 imput( I am a CB 2 member—)…
This will make a good, not great, mixed-use building(retail downstairs, condos upstairs) that Landmarks and BHA will almost assuredly force to be visually contextual. I see 3 units per floor, maybe 11 total, fair views, not great views and the retail will be fair (again, not great).
I remember it as the Ace Wire Brush Company – was this before of after Acme (it was during the 1980s)?
Rumor is that the Brooklyn Eagle is looking at space in trendier (and less expensive) Gowanus and may have smaller branch office in DUMBO too. Eagle already has office space in Bay Ridge for the Bay Ridge Eagle. Sounds like they’re spreading their wings to cover more neighborhoods…
BH: that is very funny!
I loved it when this building housed the Acme Brush Company. I expected to see Wile E Coyote walk out the door.
Just a note: I live in 75 Henry, which is the middle of the three towers on Henry/CPW — our co-op also owns the Diner on CP, all the shops on Pineapple Walk, and the 60’s-style townhouses. The co-op is no longer made up of middle-income homes as the board opted out of the program in 2001. Renovated 2 bed/2 baths list for over 900k and the townhouses go for over a million. I know the building is not a real looker, but we have very large apartments, nice terraces, a planted garden, free storage on each floor, and a garage…