5 Weird NYC Multifamily Conversions
Last week it came out that Hidrock Realty plans a multifamily conversion for Brooklyn’s Pavilion Theater. It's among a growing number of conversions where historic properties are finding new life as apartments. Here are five unusual projects leading the way.
1. The Pavilion Theater
Former use: Movie theater. The developer says it wants to upgrade and shrink the theater and reopen it.
Neighborhood: Park Slope
Developer: Hidrock Realty
Units: 24
Total SF: A permit application calls for 46k SF.
888 Main St
Former use: Insane asylum. The developer added on most of the property’s space. Only the building’s entrance was part of the original New York City Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1841.
Neighborhood: Roosevelt Island
Developer: Brue Becker
Units: 500
3. 240 Centre St, aka the Police Building
Former use: Police HQ. This 1988 conversion came a couple of decades before the conversion craze really kicked off.
Neighborhood: Little Italy
Developer: Ehrenkranz Group & Eckstut
Units: 55
4. 21 West 20th St
Original use: Parking garage (it actually still is a functioning garage). Gale International built the residential units above the garage by putting in reinforced steel beams to support it.
Neighborhood: Flatiron
Developer: Gale International
Units: 13
Total SF: 36k
5. The Ridgewood Theater
Former use: We’ll give you three guesses.
Neighborhood: Ridgewood
Developer: Bashburg Properties
Units: 50
Total SF: Last summer, the Department of Buildings granted the developer’s application to convert the theater, which has a landmarked front façade.
