That shutter coursing through Brooklyn Heights today? It was the seismic news that the Jehovah’s Witnesses had finally sold one of their many coveted properties in the neighborhood. This has been the fate the tony townhouse burg has been waiting decades for, and now that it has begun, things don’t seem that bad.
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While The Observer might be as guilty as anyone for promoting a “here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?” attitude towards the Jehovah’s Witness’ inevitable departure from the site of their global headquarters in Brooklyn Heights, it seems we’re not alone, and it also seems that this atitude is beginning to irk the famously media shy religious organization. Read More
After today’s story on the Watchtower and it’s holdings in Brooklyn Heights, we thought it would be helpful to give you a deeper sense of the residential properties currently on the market in Brooklyn Heights.
In the following slides you can get a look at the properties that are being marketed and sold by Read More
What if 3,000 people left a neighborhood of 22,000 all at once and nobody noticed?
Ask any longtime resident of Brooklyn Heights how often they laid eyes on a Jehovah’s Witness, they would most certainly answer, “Every day.”
However if you were to ask that very same person if, by dint of the cliché, how often Jehovah’s Witnesses had appeared at their door to offer them a copy of the Watchtower newsletter and recruit them into the religion, that person would likely smile benignly and say “Oh, never. Of course not.”
In Brooklyn Heights, sightings of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been more than commonplace for over a century and no one living in the neighborhood now can remember a time when those encounters have ever involved a recruitment pitch of any kind—which is odd considering Brooklyn Heights is not just home to a large number of Watchtower readers, it is actually the church’s World Headquarters. Read More
