The void in the Brooklyn waterfront’s skyline that the Watchtower sign left behind can now be filled. The city Board of Standards and Appeals voted unanimously Thursday to allow the new owner of the ...
It’s the end of an era. The red-lettered Watchtower sign, an icon of the Brooklyn waterfront for many decades, is gone. It stood atop the former Brooklyn Heights headquarters of the Jehovah’s ...
Out with the old, in with the new. The iconic lit-up red Watchtower sign, a landmark in Brooklyn Heights for almost 50 years, is no more. The massive letters came down on Wednesday, although the ...
It’s a “Welcome” addition! Builders replaced the iconic “Watchtower” sign that once greeted travelers heading over the Brooklyn Bridge with a new sign that reads “Welcome” on Monday. The rooftop ...
On November 8, the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals will decide whether owners of 30 Columbia Heights, the Brooklyn Heights building that was home to the iconic Watchtower sign up until last ...
While mention of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge today might stir up grumbles about tolls and traffic, when it first opened 53 years ago this month it was an engineering marvel predicted to transform ...
A New York City appeals board has given the green light for a new sign to replace the former Watchtower sign on the Brooklyn waterfront. The Department of Buildings had earlier advised the new owners ...
Neon-red letters that spell the new name of the massive office-and-retail complex planned for the former Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters could float above Brooklyn Heights where the Watchtower ...
It turns out the iconic Watchtower sign — recently removed by a joint venture of CIM Group and LIVWRK Holdings — hovered above Brooklyn Heights illegally for half a century. According to the city’s ...