Guardian angel on hiatus at Dyker Heights landmark; owners say they’re not responsible for building’s decay
By Helen Klein
Special to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Less than a year after the building was designated a landmark, the Angel Guardian Home’s guardian angel is nowhere to be seen.
Talmud Torah Imrei Emes bought the campus’s main building, 6301 12th Ave., in December, 2020, from developer Scott Barone, who purchased the entire lot in 2018 for $37.5 million from the Sisters of Mercy, in conjunction with the Basics Group. The yeshiva is currently retrofitting the structure as a school, and local activists say many of the unique details that led to the structure’s landmarking appear to have been damaged or destroyed.