100 Remsen Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 100 Remsen Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 8-story building at 100 Remsen Street at Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights was erected in 1950 and has 78 co-operative apartments. 

It is directly across Remsen Street from the Our Lady of Lebanon Roman Catholic Church that was originally the Church of the Pilgrims, a Romanesque Revival-style building designed in 1844 by Richard Upjohn for Congregationalists with an impressive 1869 addition by Leopold Eidlitz.  Upjohn also designed Trinity Church in Manhattan.  Eidlitz designed the Times Tower in Times Square.  In 1945, the church purchased the bronze doors from the dining room of the French oceanliner, the Normandie, which had sunk at his pier in Manhattan in 1942.

Bottom Line

A plain but solid white-brick mid-rise building with multi-pane fenestration and a doorman in the heart of Brooklyn Heights across the street from one of the borough's major religious landmarks, Our Lady of Lebanon Roman Catholic Church, designed by Richard Upjohn.

Description

The boxy, white-brick building has a canopied entrance that is recessed with two white stone columns.  The building has a thin white bandcourse above the first story and multi-pane fenestration.

The building has  numerous corner windows.

Amenities

The building has a doorman and professional offices, a bicycle room, a package room, a laundry, storage and a live-in superintendent.

Apartments

Apartment 5H is a one-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long living room with an 11-foot-long open kitchen with an island. 

Apartment 8G is a one-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long living room with an 8-foot-long dining area with a corner window next to an enclosed 11-foot-long kitchen. 

Apartment 8K is a one-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long living room with a 9-foot-long dining alcove with a corner window next to an enclosed 11-foot-long kitchen. 

Apartment 8E is a studio unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living room and an enclosed, 7-foot-long, windowed kitchen.