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5 Weird NYC Multifamily Conversions

    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.

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    1. The Pavilion Theater

    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.

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    888 Main St

    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

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    3. 240 Centre St, aka the Police Building

    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

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    4. 21 West 20th St

    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

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    5. The Ridgewood Theater

    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.

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