35 Pierrepont Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 35 Pierrepont Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 13-story building at 35 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights between Willow and Hicks street was erected in 1929 by Daniel Solomon.  It was converted to 33 co-operative apartments in the 1970s by the Lefrak Organization.  It was designed by Mortimer E. Freehof.

Bottom Line

The authors of the Fifth Edition of “The A. I. A. Guide to New York City” noted that the “roofscape and silhouette of this Art Deco apartment block have all its stops pulled out,” adding that “A pleasantly synthetic - or is it precocious – post-modern bag of tricks?”

Description

A handsome, brown-brick building with a canopied entrance flanked by attractive sidewalk landscaping on a tree-lined street near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.  It has a two-story base with a checkerboard masonry pattern beneath three ornate, three-sided balconies over the entrance. 

Above the tenth floor, the wings of the building have a steeply pitched roof and above the 12^th floor the building has a steeply pitched watertank enclosure.

Amenities

The building has a doorman, a bicycle room, a roof deck, a garden and is pet-friendly.

Apartments

Apartment 5A is a four-bedroom unit with an entrance gallery that leads to a 22-foot-long living room, a 14-foot-long dining room and a 10-foot-wide enclosed and windowed kitchen.

Apartment 6B is a two-bedroom unit with a 5-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to an 18-foot-long living/dining room next to a 14-foot-long enclosed and windowed kitchen.

Apartment 2C is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-long living room, a 15-foot-wide enclosed and windowed dining room, a 13-foot-long enclosed and windowed kitchen and a study.

Apartment 3B is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to an 18-foot-long living/dining room next to an enclosed and windowed, 14-foot-long kitchen.