Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights renovation and construction checklist

Eye on Real Estate

May 25, 2016 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle
This Brooklyn Heights residential development, seen from on high, is 153-155-157 Remsen St. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan
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Labour is blossoming, as Yeats would say.

So much renovation and restoration work is going on in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. And in part of the neighborhood that’s outside the landmarked area, a 19-story residential project we’ve been eyeballing for years is rising high at 153-155-157 Remsen St.

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* A nine-family building, 29 Schermerhorn St., is being turned into a single-family home, city Buildings Department records indicate. Joseph Atarien was the president of the entity that bought the property for $3 million in November 2014 and is a member of the LLC that now owns it, city Finance Department records indicate. He’s the president of Atari Realty.

* Benchmark Real Estate Group is doing extensive interior renovation at 25 Monroe Place, a 12-story apartment building constructed in 1938. The firm bought the building through a limited partnership for $50 million in 2015, Finance Department records show.

* Dixon Advisory, the Australian real estate investment trust that has purchased oodles of historic homes in various Brooklyn neighborhoods, has drawn up plans to renovate the Federal-style rowhouse at 72 Middagh St. The city Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the plans this past April.

As the Brooklyn Eagle previously reported, the investor bought the house for $3.175 million in 2013.

* Renovations by long-time homeowners are underway at 141 Henry St. and 120 State St.


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