Rescue Me: Shuttered Greenpoint Catholic schools are resurrected as apartment houses
Eye On Real Estate
Malky Landau and Meir David Tabak have excellent taste in ecclesiastic architecture.
They’re turning handsome but vacant school buildings from two different Greenpoint Catholic churches into apartment houses.
Work crews are busily converting St. Cecilia’s school buildings at 17 and 21 Monitor St. into residential buildings, with the sound of their work echoing on the quiet street when we stopped by for a visit the other day. They are carving distinguished-looking 17 Monitor into 69 apartments and smaller but stately 21 Monitor into 15 units, city Buildings Department filings indicate.
A year ago, an LLC of Landau’s and Tabak’s rented the properties for a 49-year term from St. Cecilia’s, a memorandum of lease filed in city Finance Department records indicates. Landau and the Rev. Thomas F. Vassalotti, St. Cecilia’s administrator and secretary, signed the memorandum. Tabak signed a mortgage for the LLC.