What’s Up on Fifth Avenue: Green-Wood Cemetery buys property needed for Weir Greenhouse visitors center project
Eye On Real Estate
Done deal! At last.
Green-Wood Cemetery recently closed on a property purchase that’s crucial to the makeover of the Weir Greenhouse, which is being turned into a visitors’ center for the famed Brooklyn graveyard.
Green-Wood paid $1.5 million for 242 25th St., city Finance Department records indicate. The property is right next door to the landmarked greenhouse with its octagonal dome, which is on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 25th Street across from the cemetery’s main gates.
The property that changed hands in late March is a double lot. There’s a small commercial building that until recently housed the Brooklyn Monument Co. plus a lawn where samples of the company’s headstones are still on display — though the company has moved to Queens, Eye on Real Estate has learned.