Brooklyn Loves Clock

Say what you will, but I have a natural love for Brooklyn. With its older-NYC charm, it was actually a very vibrant city by itself, outshining Manhattan in 1899 when Greater New York City was created, with 5 boroughs. Due to its natural steep shoreline, it was a perfect place to keep shipping and manufacturing; thus, shaping the East River waterfront with turn of the century warehouses.

A lot of these Brooklyn shoreline warehouses were embellished, just like The Clocktower, with decorative timepieces for the hoards of working class heroes moving goods across the Brooklyn docks. About 100 years later, these slight embellishments have meant extra $$$. Another example of such an OMG-worthy timepiece apartment is at The Eagle Warehouse building, at 111 Hicks Street. 

Seen above-left, the red-brick structure sits adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage and 1 block away from the East River Waterfront. Its "masthead" features a glass clock (and building name) with an awesome apartment behind it. The Eagle Warehouse was built in the 1880s and housed a local newspaper where Walt Whitman once worked. The building has doormen and a gym in the basement. It was converted into apartment units in the late 1970s, when the area was still undergoing gentrification.

Ready? Get set. O---M---G.

Loft space? Duh. Watch the river and Brooklyn Bridge and mark the time appropriately - through a working clock.