129 Columbia Heights: Review and Ratings

Review of 129 Columbia Heights by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 6-story building at 129 Columbia Heights on the northeast corner of Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights was erected in 1907 and has 37 co-operative apartments. 

It is one block east of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. 

Bottom Line

An elegant, beige-brick building with apartments with large foyers and some fire-escapes on a prominent corner one block east of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

Description

The Beaux Arts-style building has a rusticated, one-story base with a two-step-up, low  entrance stoop and a colonnaded surround. 

The beige-brick building has three broad decorative bandcourses and the spaces between them on the lowest and the highest contain escutcheons with colored centers, green on the lowest and orange on the highest. 

The building has a prominent cornice and two fire-escapes on Columbia Heights. 

Amenities

The building has a live-in superintendent, a bicycle room, storage and a laundry room.  Dogs are not permitted.

Apartments

Apartment 61/61 is a five-bedroom unit with a 32-foot-long entrance gallery that leads past an enclosed 10-foot-wide kitchen to a 20-foot-wide living room adjacent to an 11-foot-wide, windowed dining room. 

Apartment 43 is a three-bedroom unit with an entry foyer across from an enclosed and windowed, 15-foot-long kitchen. a 16-foot-long living room, and a 12-foot-long enclosed dining room. 

Apartment 27 is a three-bedroom unit with a 37-foot-long entry hall that leads past an open, 12-foot-long open kitchen with a breakfast bar to a 24-foot-long living/dining room. 

Apartment 42 is a two-bedroom unit with 9-foot-high beamed ceilings and decorative moldings