Greenpoint: Has the sale of the former Harte & Co. factory closed?
Eye On Real Estate
What will become of a much-admired – and highly polluted – Greenpoint industrial building, the former Harte & Co. factory, which may have just changed hands?
The eye-catching 1930s-vintage Arte Moderne property, located thisclose to mega-project Greenpoint Landing, has been under contract since summer 2012 – and the sale was set to close on or about Feb. 1, a memorandum of contract in city Finance Department records reveals.
The buyer of the yellow-brick factory, which has an eye-catching curved facade fashioned from glass blocks, is Dupont Street Developers LLC, the memorandum indicates. The LLC’s authorized signatory is Judah Zelmanovitz, a Fordham University-educated lawyer with a Flatlands Avenue office.
Zelmanovitz wouldn’t tell Eye on Real Estate what the purchaser’s plans are for the massive property, which has frontage on Franklin, Dupont and Clay streets.