OPINION: Too late to fix a 50-year-old bureaucratic oops with Watchtower sign
The City Buildings Department has issued a stunning assertion that the iconic Watchtower sign that stood atop the Jehovah Witness headquarters in Brooklyn Heights has been illegal since it was first installed in 1970.
Buildings made the bizarre assertion at a city Board of Standards and Appeals hearing Tuesday night where the new property owners, Columbia Heights Associates, appealed the department’s rationale for denying the owner permission to replace the Watchtower sign atop 30 Columbia Heights.
In addition to the 50-year oops, the department said the Squibb sign that originally stood in its place was illegal, too.