Watchtower Property Sells for $4.1M

February 21, 2012 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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By Linda Collins

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The second of eight properties currently on the market by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society — three listed with Massey Knakal Realty Services and five with The Corcoran Group Brooklyn — has been sold.

The property, a carriage house at 165 Columbia Heights, was sold by Corcoran for $4.1 million, according to PropertyShark.com.

As reported in the Eagle last fall, the property, which originally had an asking price of $4.5 million, was configured as two apartments plus a four-car garage.

Corcoran’s Ellen Newman, who is handling sales along with Lisa Detwiler, said at the time “the Watchtower is a pleasure to work with and the properties are in excellent condition.”

In early January, the Eagle reported that Massey Knakal had sold a Watchtower apartment building at 50 Orange St. for $7.1 million.

Watchtower is selling buildings because of a planned move of its world headquarters from Brooklyn to Warwick, N.Y.