Brooklyn Heights

Are Beyoncé and Jay-Z Crazy in Love With One of Brooklyn's Most Controversial Buildings?

Brooklyn Heights’ rumor mill is running at top speed after a Pierhouse security guard let it slip that music bigs Beyoncé and Jay-Z recently purchased a unit in the controversy-racked building in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The long-time local who first heard the rumor promptly spread it at a community meeting on Wednesday (a gathering arranged to…

by Barbara Eldredge

01/11/2016 0

Beyonce Jay Z Brooklyn — Photo of Beyonce and Jay Z by Hollaa01 via Flickr. Photo of Pierhouse by Field Condition

The long-time local who first heard the rumor promptly spread it at a community meeting on Wednesday (a gathering arranged to discuss the possibility of another controversial development in the nabe).

Brooklyn Paper got in touch with Pierhouse PR to see if the gossip was true. Notably, the rumor was not denied. But it also wasn’t endorsed:

“I wish that I could confirm that Jay-Z and Beyoncé had bought at Pierhouse but I cannot confirm that,” a spokesperson for Pierhouse told the Brooklyn Paper.

Buzz that Beyoncé and Jay Z — a Bed Stuy native — were moving to Brooklyn has been in the air since at least 2007 when a misinformed tipster told Curbed that Bey bought a unit in One Prospect Park. When the dynamic duo got involved with Barclays Center years later — Jay-Z was a part owner and they were the venue’s opening act — the murmurs of a possible move only increased.

But none of the previous speculations have been true.

However, if the couple were to buy in Brooklyn, there are reasons they might check out Pierhouse: The building is inside of one of the borough’s loveliest parks and has remarkable views of lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Those amenities come with a hefty helping of controversy — the height of the building blocks some of those remarkable views for visitors to the Brooklyn Promenade.

Brooklyn Heights is possibly the borough’s most star-studded ‘hood, with notable residents including Björk, Lena Dunham and Nets star Thaddeus Young.