By Stephen Jacob Smith 3/06 5:12pm

Brooklyn Transfers

Bible tracts no more—the penthouse at the old Watchtower warehouse is asking $5.5 million.

No Witnesses: One Brooklyn Bridge Park Penthouse Seeks $5.5 M.

The Watchtower Society may have all but divested itself of its waterfront Brooklyn holdings, but those seeking their own personal watch tower in the sky need not convert to get it—One Brooklyn Bridge Park, at 360 Furman Street in Brooklyn Heights, has re-listed its 14th-floor penthouse, and it can be all yours for just $5.5 million.

The unit has been on the market on and off since 2007, said broker Penelope Stipanovich at MNS, who has the listing, and the price was just cut from $7.25 million. Read More

By Kim Velsey 4/27/12 8:59pm

Manhattan Transfers

A lot easier to get into than the Kingdom of God

Praise God! Another Watchtower Property Sells

End times are near for the Jehovah’s Witnesses… as the largest landlords in Brooklyn Heights, that is. The charming, historic townhouse at 105 Willow Street—one of the religious group’s many charming, historic neighborhood properties—has sold for $3.3 million, city records show.

We’d say God must be smiling down upon the Watchtower properties, with this sale Read More

By Daniel Geiger 2/27/12 9:30am

power broker

Robert-Knakal

By the Numbers: Robert Knakal and the Statistics Behind his Success

Robert Knakal has long had a simple philosophy about selling real estate.

The way he sees it, there are approximately a million buildings in the city, and the broker that gets to sell any one among the multitude that will hit the auctioning block at a given moment is, sometimes, simply the person who happens to pitch their services to the right seller at the right time. Read More