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Here’s a new way for people to live in Brooklyn Heights — inside a bank that looks like a palazzo in Romeo and Juliet’s hometown.
We’re talking about the condos being created on the upstairs floors of the Brooklyn Trust Company Building at 177 Montague St., an individual city landmark designed a century ago by distinguished bank architecture firm York & Sawyer.
Construction crews are heading into the home stretch of the Stahl Organization’s project to convert office space formerly occupied by Cullen and Dykman — the law firm that represented the builders of the Brooklyn Bridge — into 12 residential condos.
“They had some of the ugliest offices I’d ever seen,” Bill Ross, director of Brown Harris Stevens Development Marketing, told Eye on Real Estate during a recent hard-hat tour of the property. “The real challenge was to take that ugly, awful office and turn it into lovely apartments. It was a terrible challenge.”