Schermerhorn Facade.
From Boerum Place.
North wing.
Courtyard.
Detail of the old and new facades.
Detail facing Livingston St.
View from Red Hook Lane, before the additional floors were added.
From Red Hook Lane, after additional floors were added.
Photo from Forgotten-NY
We were impressed when we first saw the quality of the mural in the courtyard at 110. We shouldn’t have been; the muralist of this work is Richard Haas, who has a sterling resume, and whose work is in the permanent collections at the Met, MOMA, and Brooklyn Museum, to name a few.
His site features a some of his work, including an interior at the New York Public Library, two prints of the Chrysler and Empire State buildings, and my favorite, an office wall painted to resemble a window onto the city as it existed in the 1800s. Maybe the city could commission a similar work on the Brooklyn House of Detention?
The New York Sun, continuing their impressive coverage of Brooklyn development, reports that:
The Bloomberg administration is looking to boost downtown Brooklyn by naming a Brooklyn development tsar to oversee the planned growth of the city’s third largest business district.
This is a welcome development. For one thing, the new tsar would integrate the alphabet soup of civic groups that now exist in the downtown area (deep breath): the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP), Downtown Brooklyn Council (DBC), Fulton Mall Improvement Association (FMIA), MetroTech Business Improvement District (MTBID), and the BAM Local Development Corporation (BAMLDC). Whew!
The internet anagram server took all these letters–DBPDBCFMIAMTBIDBAMLDC–and spat out two important downtown issues: difficulty finding a cab, and the hot real estate market (it said: “CAB MAD, FLIP IT”). A coded message for the new tsar, perhaps?
Today it’s all transport news because 110 has its pick of just about every subway line in the city, the Transit Museum is on site, and we’re right near the Brooklyn Bridge:
Details from the entryway to the building.
Details of the entryway door and the restored lobby ceiling. Many thanks to our discussion board user kaz for this great shot and the lobby pics below. You can see her full set here.
Door to the ‘great hall.’
The elevator banks.