Watchtower sign was illegal, Buildings Department says
Legal fight begins over former Jehovah's Witnesses' Brooklyn Heights HQ sign
The famous Watchtower sign was illegal for its entire half-century existence.
The Squibb sign that originally stood in its place was illegal, too.
That’s the city Buildings Department’s stunning assertion — and its rationale for why it denied the owner of the former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ headquarters in Brooklyn Heights permission to replace the Watchtower sign atop 30 Columbia Heights.