Look at this apartment that just went on the market! The New York Times takes us inside the triplex penthouse of Brooklyn's ClockTower Building — where the most striking features are the four 14' clocks housed in gigantic round windows.
The DUMBO building was built by a cardboard box manufacturer and renovated by DUMBO developer David Walentas. The approximately 6,400 square foot apartment is on the market for $25 million — "more than double the highest price known to have been paid for a home in Brooklyn."
In addition to the clocks and amazing views, the triplex features 16 foot ceilings on the main level and central glass elevator and floating staircase!
For even more pictures and the complete article, check out: No Need to Wear a Watch and the slide show from The New York Times.
(Image: ©:2009 Angel Franco/The New York Times)
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Incredible.
Form beats function – i would always be late if i used these backward clocks :)
Holy Smokes, I do not like NYC but if I could like here, I could live in NYC - amazing.
absolutely drool worthy. Ahh to have 25 mil hanging around. *sigh* lovely!!
What an amazing place.
Wowie wow wow!!
shofner- just put a mirror on the opposite wall and look at that to tell the time :).
I read the article over the weekend and have been dreaming of how I would design the interior. I thought now this would be a great place to have a freestanding bath tub in the living room under the clock shadows.
The lucky person who can afford this!
I love Musée d'Orsay and its famous clock so my heart skipped a beat when I saw this. Amazing.
O-M-G!!!!!
I have always fantasized about living in clock tower but this is way more beautiful than anything I've dreamt up. Stunning!
Absolutely stunning !!! I wish I could afford to buy it !!!
Its like living in a batman movie.
If I could, I so, so would.
Love the bathtub - anyone know the source?
Ditto about the Musée d'Orsay. This totally reminded me of it.
What an amazing property. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Goodness, I'm surprised Brad Pitt hasn't snatched it up.
Also surprising someone didn't want to turn it into a party space.
I could have sworn I saw this apt pre-renovation featured on a TV show years ago. Maybe Designer Living? It was not nearly as modern and rather looked more industrial.
I wonder if the clock is disabled...the ticking would be drive me mad....
Right on trailingedge. I want to know just how loud that tower booms every 30 mins and hour.
Not that I have 25 million lying around.
My best guess for the bathtub is Mount Olympus.
:) cheeky, but the tub is so perfect it fits!
This is so amazing! I would love to raise my family here.
Just think, all the cash you would save never having to buy a watch again. This place would practically pay for itself!
Or not.
What I would do to stand naked in front of that window...
This space reminds me of my own home...when Im sleep...dreaming...really dreaming...
WAIT! Im still sleep.
I love everything about it. Would be great to live there, although I could never live in such a crowded city.
But hey, when you have 25 million you could probably buy a nice weekendhouse :-)
Isn't this Pierre Delacroix's apartment in Spike Lee's Bamboozled? That movie is a mind-blower-- I can't believe the apartment is up for sale!
so. freaking. cool.
I wanted to live in this place since I was 13 years old. Walking by it on the Manhattan Bridge, you feel like you are going back to grander times.
gia
Amazing!
heaven?
I'm gonna offer $325K, and keep my fingers crossed.
I'd want a bell to go with this, a FREAKING LOUD BELL!!!!
8^)
amazing. Also, note that the place is not staged. No need!
I absolutely love this more than I can say - but... if the clocks tick, I'd go insane!
...still... it's stunning.
WOW. How much for just the crow's nest?
Amazing to have those clock windows... wonder if we could DIY it?
How do you furnish such an amazing place?! I wouldn't know where to start!
Okay, made my offer of $325K. Haven't heard from them yet. They must be thinking it over!!!
Girl, you know what time it is!
If I could spend one weekend here, I would never complain about anything in life ever again!!
bidding war im oferr $330K...
How many people can say they have a clock for a window? It's great! Actually reminds me a little bit of the Back to the Future clock. :)
The tower clock is beyond unbelievable! When the sun hits it, the shadows it creates in the one photo is a bonus. Otherwise, the place in itself is too sparse for my taste.
Ok...since I can't edit or delete my post....the place is utterly fabulous! (after looking at all the photos....4 clocks..whoa!)
I love most of it- excpet that kitchen. I just don't find it to be in the best place- that square countertop so close to that beautiful window...
This really should be mine.
Medusa 12120 --
I lived in DUMBO, and I don't think Walentas owned the building in 1993. From what I remember the clocktower was some kind of office building for a while. Then it started going residential, but most likely without a C of O. None of those buildings had C of Os, though many were lived in. But even the loftdwellers who were grandfathered in (and therefore theoretically protected from eviction) wound up getting pressured/bought out/kicked out/harassed (though not by Walentas, by Josh Guttman, the other big landlord) to leave. I'm sure the place was a mess. It was probably fixed up by the tenant herself, who was probably an artist, who was risking a whole lot to live and work there, most likely illegally, and didn't have money to blow at ABC. And yes, Walentas has developed his buildings into pretty swank places. No artists there. So to say that what an artist's loft needs is to be turned into a 25 million dollar apartment -- I know what you mean (a good looking loft is a delicious thin), but there are so much people whose lives got turned upside in the process. Just something to remember. Apologies for my speech. And yes, I too got evicted. But what happened in DUMBO displaced an incredible community, which I sometimes really miss.
:O
Ohmywow!!
Let me pick my jaw off the floor. Amazing. However, it seems very dark. For that kind of money I would expect them to include a remote control to the sun or at least bigger non clock related windows.
There was a really bad, super-short-lived sitcom in the '80s or '90s that had an apt. set with a clock window like this and I was always jealous. This is pretty hot, but 6,400 sq ft is way too huge, and living in Brooklyn...? No thanks. I'll spend my spare $25M elsewhere ;-)
Wow. I hope it's bought by someone who will actually love it and live in it, instead of just keeping it as a party loft.
Looks like the set of a comic book movie.
Somebody get me Hollywood on the line!
me too, wally3 (D'ORSAY)!!!
i will love to live there,im in b'klyn also,but in my lil apt the only clock i hv is from my cable box. The view is so romantic! Apt w/clock=$25 millions,furniture=$1 million,make love in that apt. w view to NYC=PRICELESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
how cool it would be to write your addess as: Clock Tower Penthouse in Brooklyn :D:D:D
Hmmmm, I've got 25 million laying around somewhere...
Yeah.. but it would be a bitch to heat. Im just sayin....