The Center for Fiction is moving to the Brooklyn Cultural District
Eye On Real Estate: Its new home base will be 280 Ashland Place, Jonathan Rose Cos.' development
Book lovers rejoice! The Center for Fiction is moving its headquarters to the Brooklyn Cultural District.
Brooklyn is the literary capital of the world; that’s what former Borough President Marty Markowitz often said. This came to mind when we found out the Center for Fiction — which has been headquartered in Manhattan since its founding as the Mercantile Library in 1820 — is heading our way.
The Center for Fiction — which has a circulating collection of more than 100,000 fiction titles — is building its home base in a mixed-use development Jonathan Rose Cos. is just starting to construct at 280 Ashland Place.
“They were looking for a new home and had the financial resources to work on a new project,” Jonathan Rose Cos. President Jonathan Rose told Eye on Real Estate in a recent interview.