The Dumbo Brooklyn location of One Girl Cookies officially opened today. They offering their classic collection cookies, chocolate collection, whoopie pies, and cakes and cupcakes. They will also serve a breakfast and lunch menu soon. Welcome to the neighborhood!

One Girl Cookies (onegirlcookies.com/dumbo)
33 Main St (at Water St) Dumbo, Brooklyn NY 11201
Mon–Fri 7am–6pm; Sat, Sun 9am–6pm

Previously:
{One Girl Cookies Construction Update, 26Jan2012}
{One Girl Cookies Opening in Dumbo, 02Sep2011}

The paper on the windows of the One Girl Cookies – Dumbo location was removed this morning (at the 1 Main Street building). Peeking inside, the space is looking great with high loft ceilings and open counters.

From the Time Out NY listing:
“Turning Dumbo’s Water Street into Sugar Row, this 32-seat bakeshop—a spin-off of the Cobble Hill original—joins pastry standouts Almondine and Jacques Torres on the block. Wife-and-husband team Dawn Casale and David Crofton turn out homestyle treats, like whoopie pies, cupcakes and sandwich cookies.”

One Girl Cookies (onegirlcookies.com/dumbo)
33 Main St (at Water St) Dumbo, Brooklyn NY 11201
Mon–Fri 7am–6pm; Sat, Sun 9am–6pm

Previously: {One Girl Cookies Opening in Dumbo, 02Sep2011}

According to a Curbed NY post, PropertyShark published their quarterly list of the most expensive neighborhoods (based on median closing price for each neighborhood). PropertyShark noted that Dumbo was one of the most expensive NYC neighborhoods in Q2 2011. In Q3 2011, Dumbo moved up one notch. Curbed writes, “Dumbo continued to rise in the ranks (up from #4 last quarter to #3), and Tribeca overtook Soho for the top spot.” Median sales price in Dumbo for Q3 was $1,460,000, which increased by 39% over Q2 (which was tops in NYC) and percentage change over the year was 99%. PropertyShark’s listings of the most expensive sales in Dumbo last quarter were:

• 30 Main Street, #11G sold for $2.8MM on 7/11/2011. 2,474 sqft ($1,131/sqft), 3bed, 2.5bath, $2,035/mo cc, (PropertyShark listing)
• 31 Washington Street, #15 (aka #6B) sold for $2.8MM on 8/23/2011. 3,194 sqft ($970/sqft), Open floor plan, 2.5bath, $843/mo cc, (Featured on Brownstoner)

A commenter on Curbed notes: “So the neighborhood with the highest rate of appreciation is DUMBO. The neighborhood with the 2nd highest appreciation over the year was Boreum Hill. IN BROOKLYN. So Brooklyn snags the top 2 slots for housing appreciation in all of NYC. Surprised West Village didn’t make the top 10 though.” Is Dumbo WAY too bubbly for its own good?

Related:
{Dumbo Is One of the Most Expensive NYC Neighborhoods (Q2 2011)}

The above is a tour of the 2011 Esquire Apartment by Margot Robbie, star of ABC’s Pan Am. This year’s Ultimate Bachelor Pad at 1 Main Street in Dumbo is on the market for $23.5 Million.

{Margot Robbie Would Like to Move in to the Esquire Apartment, Esquire}
{Inside Esquire’s Very Bonkers Ultimate Bachelor Pad, Curbed}

According to the signs that went up in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Main Street location, the lawn is closed for rejuvenation through the winter. It will reopen in the spring 2012 as a dog free park (as with all grass areas of the park, consistent with other sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park). The sign does say that dogs are welcome at the Main Street dog run (photo below) and on pathways and promenades. We received a few emails from unhappy dog owners about this. What do you think?

45 Main Street is closed today due to a fire last night, causing lost power, according to the Two Trees Management Twitter message above. There are reports of a water main break due to hydrant usage causing flooding as well. Tenants of the building are asked to call 718-625-5505 for more information.

[UPDATE: Two Trees phones are not working, so tenants are asked to access your Workspeed account for updated info.]

[UPDATE2: Starbucks on Front and Main Street is also closed.]

[UPDATE3: Starbucks has been reopened. Power has been restored and 45 Main Street will reopen at 8am on Thu, Oct 13.]

The now famous $23.5million penthouse apartment at 1 Main Street has been chosen as Esquire magazine’s Ultimate Bachelor Pad. The 7,000 square foot three story penthouse plus 400 sq. ft. private interior and exterior roof deck will be featured at exclusive celebrity and charity events throughout the fall season. This year’s opening gala, which benefits the Fresh Air Fund, is set to take place on Thursday, October 13th.

Related:
{Esquire to Fill Brooklyn’s Priciest Pad With Sexy Ghost, 26Sep2011, Curbed}
{Dumbo Clock Tower penthouse to become Esquire magazine bachelor pad, 26Sep2011, The Real Deal}
{1 Main Street Penthouse Back on the Market for $23.5M, 15Apr2011}
{New Co-Exclusive Listing for 1 Main Street PH, 01Feb2010}

Press Release after the jump.

ESQUIRE MAGAZINE’S NINTH ANNUAL ‘ULTIMATE BACHELOR PAD’ TO OPEN NEXT MONTH IN BROOKLYN

For the First Time Ever, Esquire Takes Its NYC Apartment Out of Manhattan

Premium Brands, Leading Designers and State-of-the-Art Technology Showcase
‘Man at His Best’ at the Exclusive ClockTower Building in DUMBO

NEW YORK, NY (September 26, 2011) – This fall, Esquire magazine moves to Brooklyn. The highly anticipated ninth annual “Ultimate Bachelor Pad” is a sprawling triplex penthouse in the ClockTower Building in DUMBO, marking the first time the men’s magazine has moved its NYC apartment out of Manhattan. For almost a decade, Esquire’s breakthrough and highly successful experiential lifestyle marketing franchise built on the magazine’s tagline “Man at His Best,” has hosted a series of exclusive celebrity and charity events throughout the fall season. This year’s opening gala, which benefits the Fresh Air Fund, is set to take place on Thursday, October 13th. To date, Esquire has raised more than $8.5 million for a variety of causes since the first Ultimate Bachelor Pad opened in 2003.

The 2011 Esquire Apartment is located in the heart of one of New York’s burgeoning neighborhoods, nestled on the waterfront between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges and boasting some of the best views of the Lower Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty. DUMBO, a haven for artists, digital media companies and the creative community, stands for “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.” The ClockTower, originally a factory built in 1914 by a cardboard box manufacturer, was remodeled into luxury condominiums by David Walentas, widely known as the architect of DUMBO, in 1998. The unique 7,000 square-foot penthouse features a 14-foot-high glass clock face on each wall of the main living area, which provides nearly unobstructed views out to the four points of the compass. The breathtaking triplex, with 16- to 50-foot ceilings, includes eight rooms, an interior private glass elevator, a three-story floating staircase, and an outdoor crow’s-nest terrace with 360-degree views.

“The Esquire Apartment concept was conceived in New York in 2003,” notes Jack Essig, SVP/group publishing director/chief revenue officer, Esquire. “Although we create our house every other year in Los Angeles, this is the first time we’ve taken our New York project to a location outside of Manhattan. We really challenge ourselves every year to find a new prime neighborhood and a building that represents the essence of the magazine. The ClockTower penthouse is truly a one-of-a-kind space that encapsulates the style and innovation that is inherent to the Esquire brand.”

Guests at the Esquire Apartment will experience numerous technological and lifestyle innovations customized for today’s “ultimate bachelor,” including such innovations as The Ghost, the Lufthansa Digital Loft and the “Home Office of the Future.”

The only permanent resident of the 2011 Apartment is Charlotte, the elusive ghost. Charlotte is a life-size digital hologram created by Pod Design+Media and WIKA Studio who will appear at various locations inside the Apartment to flirt with guests, provide information on various aspects of the space and otherwise engage a crowd that may think they have seen everything. Charlotte is embodied by actress Margot Robbie, who appears in Pam Am on ABC this fall.

The Digital Loft, created by Luxurious Animals and Poltrona Frau Group for Lufthansa, has a 40-foot digital viewing system onto which will be projected customized social-media feeds. The Study, designed by Marc Thorpe and HUSH Studios for Acura, is the “office of the future,” with a one-of-kind desk featuring a three-dimensional fabric touch screen powered by infrared sensors.

Each room in the Esquire Apartment represents a variety of lifestyle touchpoints for the 21st century man as seen through the eyes of some of the most talented interior designers in the industry, including: Shelley Starr for Hugo Boss [Great Room] and for Don Julio [Tequila Bar], Campion Platt for Ermenegildo Zegna [Master Bedroom], Denise Kuriger for ASICS [Home Gym], Marc Thorpe and HUSH Studios for Acura [Study], Luxurious Animals and Poltrona Frau Group for Lufthansa [Digital Loft], SFA Designs for Conrad Hotels & Resorts [Rooftop Terrace], and Brooks Atwood of POD Design+Media [Esquire Bar].

Esquire’s Brooklyn property will be unveiled on Thursday, October 13, with an event benefiting the Fresh Air Fund, a not-for-profit agency that provides free summer experiences in the country to more than 1.7 million New York City children from disadvantaged communities. Other events taking place this year at the Esquire Apartment will benefit the National Resources Defense Council, the nation’s most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.3 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals; International Medical Corps, a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs; and City of Hope, an independent biomedical research, treatment and education institution that is a leader in the fight to conquer cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and other life-threatening diseases. All events are by invitation only, and transportation will be provided.

“It’s nice to be doing good while doing business,” said Stephen Jacoby, associate publisher of marketing, Esquire. “We’re thrilled to be creating such unique and inspirational living spaces each year and giving our partners this platform for reaching key audiences. And it’s thoroughly rewarding to be doing it for charity.”

To create the Ultimate Bachelor Pad, Esquire has brought together leading marketers, several of whom have participated in prior years, including Absolut, Acura, ASICS, Bloomberg, Bombardier, Don Julio, Hugo Boss, and Lufthansa. New to the project this year are Basil Hayden’s Bourbon, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Ermenegildo Zegna, Kahlua, Nolet’s Finest Gins, Radeberger Pilsner, Toshiba, and TouchTunes Interactive Networks.

In addition to its live location in DUMBO, the Esquire Apartment will have an online presence on a dedicated Web site, esquireapartment.com, and also appear in the magazine’s January 2012 issue. In addition, the DIY Network will air a one-hour special about the project in early 2012.

The ClockTower is listed exclusively with Michele Kleier, Samantha Kleier-Forbes and Sabrina Kleier-Morgenstern of Gumley Haft Kleier, a major force in New York’s highly competitive residential brokerage arena.

Esquire’s Brooklyn apartment is the ninth “Signature Space” and the fifth property Esquire has created in New York. The Esquire Apartment concept was originally brought to life in 2003 and since then has alternated each fall season between New York and Los Angeles. Previous New York City locations have included the Esquire Apartment at Trump World Tower (2003), Esquire Downtown at Astor Place (2005), Esquire North (2007) and Esquire Soho (2009). Previous locations in Los Angeles have included the Esquire House Los Angeles (2004), the Esquire House 360° (2006), the Esquire House Hollywood Hills (2008), and the Esquire House Beverly Hills (2010).

About Esquire
Esquire, published by Hearst Magazines, is the most-honored monthly magazine in America with a total of 15 National Magazine Awards over the past 14 years. Its website and its iPad apps have been similarly honored. In addition to its U.S. flagship, Esquire publishes 20 editions around the world.

A reader sent us this email that the B25 bus route has begun the routing down Main Street:

Did you know that the B 25 buses started today going down Main and Water 7 days a week from morning until late night? Apparently the concerns raised in July about this route and schedule change went unheard.

We previously posted about the B25 bus in July from another resident who thought buses turning into Main Street, then down Water Street would be too much for the cramped streets.

The original post from the resident said this about having the bus turn into Main Street: “it is extremely dangerous, and it is a terrible and unsustainable traffic-flow situation. I have seen fist-fights and many incidences of road rage. Many times busses careen onto the street hardly braking at all as they turn down from Front Street. I am worried no one is going to take this issue seriously until a pedestrian is killed or there is a serious accident.”

Most of the Water Street re-construction has been completed and paved with Belgian blocks.

[UPDATE: Robert Perris, District Manager for CB2 commented this update: CB2 took these concerns seriously and discussed them with New York City Transit (NYCT) and other stakeholders. One alternative that was considered was the viability of moving the bus loop to another street further east. NYCT informed CB2 that it was not able to consider an alternative route at this time but might re-visit the issue following implementation of the 24/7 Main Street loop." Thanks Rob for the update!]

One Girl Cookies, the Boerum Hill Brooklyn bakery and cafe will open at 1 Main Street in Dumbo. Crain’s NY reported that One Girl Cookies signed a 10 year lease for 1,434 square feet. It’s not clear from the article whether they will take space as part of the new concept restaurant by Colonie Executive Chef Brad McDonald or at the existing Bubby’s restaurant. (Can anyone confirm?)

Per the Crain’s article:

“We developed a brand identity and now want to strengthen that brand,” said Dawn Casale. She and her husband Dave founded One Girl Cookies as a wholesale and mail-order operation when they lived in Manhattan. “We already built a foundation and large production facility that could handle a second location.”

The company’s first café at 69 Dean St. in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn—which it opened five and a half years ago—is also home to its baking facilities, which will make daily deliveries to the new DUMBO location a mile away. The new outpost will serve breakfast as well as freshly-baked cakes, cupcakes and other sweets.

Owner Ms. Casale also added that One Girl “hopes to “fill a void in DUMBO.” As she and her husband walked around the neighborhood they realized there wasn’t any place to buy a custom birthday cake or cupcakes for parties and other special events, all One Girl specialties.”

Chef McDonald’s restaurant and One Girl Cookies plan to open around January 2012.

If you’re in the market for a penthouse apartment in Dumbo but don’t want to spend $23 million, here’s a new listing at 30 Main Street offered by Sotheby’s. This 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom condo has great views of lower Manhattan and a spiral staircase that leads to a private terrace. The photos for this apartment are stunning, and looks like it’s in great shape. The interior square footage is 2,209 and 1,128 square feet of exterior space. Monthly real estate tax is $201 and common charges of $2,035 per month. Their offering this for $3,100,000 ($1,403 per sq ft), which is more expensive per square feet than recent sales in the building (approx $1,000 per square feet based Streeteasy data), but does not take into account the large exterior space – and that view. What do you think?

Sotheby’s listing for 30 Main St, PHF

Three digital companies have signed leases in Dumbo last week, according to a Two Trees representative. Official.FM (20 Jay Street), North American Ideon (45 Main Street), and Breakfast (55 Washington Street) have joined the New York Digital District, the neighborhood that offers free wireless access and the Dumbo Business Incubator.

Official.FM U.S.A. Inc, is a company that offers artists, labels and music media a website to share their music. They signed a lease for 1,590 square feet of space in 20 Jay Street. This will be their U.S. office location and they will continue maintain a presence in Europe.

Ideon Financial Solutions, a company that produces software and provides support for financial institutions, is based in North America and Europe, with the main headquarters located in Madrid. North American Ideon, L.L.C., the North American division, are based in New York City with additional offices in San Antonio, Texas and now DUMBO with the acquisition of 1,436 square feet of space at 55 Washington Street they are leasing.

Breakfast are innovators who create and develop new digital products and custom technology. The company will be renting 1,436 square feet of space at 55 Washington Street.

Welcome to Dumbo, the New York Digital District!

Previously:
{Lease News: 4 Digital Firms Sign in Dumbo, 28Jun2010}

Can you imagine being able to get the quality of food from a chef trained at world class restaurants such as Noma of Copenhagen, Denmark or Per Se of NYC, two of the world’s best restaurants in the world in Dumbo Brooklyn? That’s what this online petition is pitching to gain support from fellow Dumbo residents for a liquor license application. It states:

Dear Neighbors,

We hope this letter finds you well. We are No Name Hunt Club, the owners of an upcoming great Restaurant in DUMBO, at 1 Main Street.

We are applying to the State Liquor Authority for an on-premise liquor license and want to reach out to you in hopes of gaining your support for this exciting venture.

No Name Hunt Club is a full service restaurant that will endeavor to use only locally sourced and certified organic Brooklyn based producers and provide the community with a casual yet high-quality interpretation of New American dining. It will represent DUMBO and its surrounding neighborhoods with a much needed eating and drinking establishment that focuses on all things gastronomically New York.

The food at No Name Hunt Club may include such items as: local produce from neighboring farms, locally sourced meats, artisanal regional cheeses, and a fresh fish selection from our nearest waters and shorelines. The wine selection will feature a diverse and thorough wine by the glass list of unique yet approachable, affordable high quality wines. In addition, we will have a reserve list from a cellar of consigned wines of avid collectors in our area.

All my best,
Brad McDonald
No Name Hunt Club Partner

We were intrigued about this so we spoke to Chef Brad McDonald about this. Brad is a classically trained chef from Mississippi, and currently resides in Dumbo. He received his culinary training in Dijon, France before coming to NYC where he worked at Alain Ducasse at the Essex House and Per Se. He was most recently at Noma in Copenhagen, which is widely considered the #1 restaurant in the world. Brad is currently the executive chef at Colonie in Brooklyn. They’re impressive credentials for sure, but what’s his vision for the Dumbo restaurant at 1 Main? Will it be like Colonie or more like Per Se? “I think that what we are aiming for in Dumbo is going to be something between the two. It’s important to me that the spot stays “Brooklyn” at its core, but also attempts to raise the bar for food in the borough,” says Chef McDonald. He adds that “the menu will be totally chef driven – an outlet for creativity.”

If you’d like to support this new restaurant, go to gopetition.com.

As Streetsblog pointed out in late June, the NYC Department of Transportation presented plans for expanded pedestrian areas and upgraded bike markings on Old Fulton Street, which serves as the primary gateway to the recently opened Pier 1 of Brooklyn Bridge Park. As part of the reconfiguration, the B25 will be re-routed to avoid performing a U-turn on Old Fulton on weekends, most likely by following the same circuit it takes on weekdays. That means all buses will be rerouted down Main Street in Dumbo, an already cramped street. A resident of Main Street sent us the below letter to CB2, which he says has not been responded to. With the bus schedule on Main Street as many as 9 times an hour on this now busy residential street, it would make sense to route the bus down Front Street and left on Adams Street, a less busy street, then turn left on Water Street as it does now. Makes sense to us, but are there other considerations? Read the letter to CB2 below (as originally sent but with names removed).

Hello –

My name is [redacted]. I live at 30 Main St. in Dumbo, am one of the original owners in Dumbo and have lived here for 8 years. I am following up on the CB2 Transportation meeting last night at which I spoke briefly about the M25 Bus route as it relates to the proposed plan regarding the Fulton Ferry Landing changes. The M25 bus route through Main Street in Dumbo is currently an out of control community issue, safety issue, and traffic flow issue, but one that I believe can be easily solved.

For as many years as I have lived here, the M25 bus has zoomed down this tiny street incessantly – the MTA currently is and has been for years using Main Street simply as a “turn-around” point for the bus to head back into downtown Brooklyn. There are rarely any passengers on the bus as it comes into Dumbo, and rarely any passengers getting on at Water Street. It is not, in fact, actually providing any meaningful “transportation” to Dumbo.

Years ago, when Dumbo was mostly an industrial zone, using this street as a turn-around was one thing; however, Main St., one of the narrower, shortest streets in Dumbo (and possibly in all of NYC) is now the most heavily residential block in Dumbo. There are many young families with many small children on this street. It is also probably the most heavily trafficked street in all of Dumbo, with two very active loading docks as well as a very active parking garage and an active delivery alleyway. The street is crowded all day long with commercial vehicles and delivery trucks; cars and taxis; and many pedestrians.

There are very often two, sometimes even three buses on the street at the same time, completely stopped by traffic. This is occurring all day, every day. It is not out of the ordinary. In fact, it is often much worse. I strongly encourage you to look at the pictures in the body of this email. If this were occurring on your street in front of your home every day, I’m sure you would all see the necessity of correcting this dangerous and untenable situation.

I have attached a copy of the current MTA bus M25 schedule (b025cur.pdf). You can see exactly how MANY times the bus now comes down Main St. – as many as 9 times an hour.

Below is a Google earth photo of Main Street taken from the entrance at Front Street. You can see the parking garage and two loading docks to the right, and the alleyway is obscured but it is just past the yellow building on the left.

Here is an image that better shows the true length and size of the street:

The upshot is that all of this daily traffic makes the unimpeded passing of the bus (and with such frequency) a virtual impossibility. Most often, the bus will in fact not be able to pass and in response, will sit blocking all traffic for as much as 15 minutes at a time, and will sit endlessly honking its horn all the while until it can finally get by. Because of the stopped busses, traffic can and is often backed up all the way down Front St. towards Fulton St., as vehicles wait to pass and continue down Front street, or to turn onto Main Street itself.

Main Street is simply not big enough to service this sort of constant, never-ending daily bus traffic, and there is no reason that it should be used as a “turn-around” by the MTA. It is extremely dangerous, and it is a terrible and unsustainable traffic-flow situation. I have seen fist-fights and many incidences of road rage. Many times busses careen onto the street hardly braking at all as they turn down from Front Street. I am worried no one is going to take this issue seriously until a pedestrian is killed or there is a serious accident.

Here is the bus making its turn-around on Fulton Street as it does now in evenings and on weekends, which is actually the widest, simplest and most direct route for the bus to head back into downtown Brooklyn (as well as least trafficked). This is the actual bus turning point which would now be re-routed to put MORE BUSES on Main Street according to the Fulton Ferry Landing Plan.

However, if the bus must be moved from Fulton Ferry Landing, the obvious solution is this: the bus should simply go down Front Street (as it does now) and instead of turning left onto Main, it should continue a short 1 ½ blocks and make its left turn onto Adams Street (see below) which is a much wider street with virtually no commercial traffic or, in fact, any kind of traffic. Because it essentially leads nowhere, it is practically an unused street. It is also completely non-residential, bounded by an office building on one side, and the Manhattan Bridge on the other. The bus would then make the same left turn onto Water Street (as it does now) and would continue on the exactly same route it does now, down Water back to Fulton Street.

I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to discuss this with all of you in more detail to see if we can resolve this issue for the good of the neighborhood. Please let me know either how we can schedule a call with the appropriate parties, set up a time to meet, or the process by which we can put this issue on the CB2 meeting agenda in the very near future. This issue should certainly be addressed along with the continuing discussions for Fulton Ferry Landing.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
[redacted]

One of our readers, EPC (@epc), came across this old 139 year article from the Brooklyn Eagle (July 2, 1872) about Main Street in Brooklyn: I was digging through the Brooklyn Public Library scans of the Brooklyn Eagle and came across this column (can’t tell if it’s opinion/editorial if they even made that distinction) from Page 2 of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for July 1, 1872. The first couple of paragraphs are the best, then it sort of slides into gross caricatures of Jews. Here’s the first two paragraphs:

MAIN STREET
“It is a peculiarity of Main street wherever you find a Main street, that it never is the main street. Doubtless it once was the main street, but cities grow, and men may come and men may go, while Main street sinks into the general rut of bye streets, and its place is usurped by upstart thoroughfares with no distinguishing name. So of Main street, Brooklyn. Time was when it occupied the place Fulton street holds now, and it is not impossible that the march of local improvement may again invest it with a factitious importance (as leading from somewhere to somewhere else). But at present there is not a street in this broad city of so little commercial or social importance as Main street.”

“To speak truth, it is an unsavory thoroughfare. Cologne itself, the city of seven distinct smells, can produce a thoroughfare to vie with Main street in all that is evil smelling and febrifacient — but Brooklyn can with difficulty do so. By day the garbage of a thousand tenement houses is thrown in the street; that is a physical disease. By night its corners are infested by loafers and its sidewalks people by ward politicians; that is a social disease. Altogether, as you might infer, Main stret is in a bad way. And yet there are many good people who live in Main street, and many better people (in a social sense) who have lived in Main street, and can look back upon their tenement house experiences from the bow windows of their brownstone fronts. I was about to say that there are those of Main street who example all the Christian virtues, but I bethink me that most of its residents are Jews.”

The last paragraph describes Main Street’s merchants:

“There are no pawnshops in Main street, but their place is supplied for all practical purposes by the second hand clothing stores, of which there are certainly enough and to spare. The other industries represented in the street are thee of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, with a slight tinge of the legitimate rum dealer and the illicit whiskey distiller. But these are nothing of themselves. The life of Main street is the Catherine Ferry, and while that remains Main street will hold its own as a peculiar and distinctive thoroughfare.”

Again, not entirely sure how factual it was meant to be then, but it’s an interesting contrast to Main Street of today (which is even shorter than it was in 1872).

Thanks Ed for the tip! Note above photo of Main Street is from the New York Public Library: “Main Street, north from a point sount of Prospect Street. In the background, a section of Manhattan Bridge (November 1, 1927)”

(Brooklyn Eagle (July 2, 1872) (PDF)
{Dumbo Then and Now, series, DumboNYC}

Last we heard about the most expensive condo in Brooklyn in July 2010, Two Trees Management reported that the $25million penthouse at 1 Main Street was being reserved for a buyer who was considering the condo for purchase. The triplex is back on the market at the Clocktower building for $23.5million. The listing is represented by Michele Kleier, of Gumley Haft Kleier, and her daughters Sabrina Kleier-Morgenstern and Samantha Kleier-Forbes, according to the NY Post. The listing description of the penthouse:

A spectacular, one of a kind approximately 7,000 square foot three story Penthouse plus 400 sq. ft. private interior and exterior roof deck in the famed 1914 landmark Clock Tower Building. Four enormous clocks with glass faces offer panoramic 360 Degree Views from this high floor beauty with ceiling heights that range between 11-16 feet. Magnificent light and views of the Manhattan Skyline, Statue of Liberty, East River and both the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

A keyed elevator leads to this magnificent residence, featuring a private 3-story elevator and architectural wrap around stainless steel and glass staircase, with solid white oak treads. There are three bedrooms and three and a half baths.

The kitchen is custom Canova with white lacquer cabinets, Pietra Cardosa stone and stainless steel countertops with integral sinks and appliances by Gaggenau and Sub-Zero. The baths feature natural stone floors with radiant heat, exquisite glass wall tiles and custom European fixtures by Dornbracht.

Common Charges: $2,687 per month
Real Estate Taxes: $3,783 per month

Now that it’s back on the market, time to open your checkbooks!

Previously:
{$25 Million Dumbo Apartment in Negotiation, 21Jul2010}
{New Co-Exclusive Listing for 1 Main Street PH, 01Feb2010}
{One Main PH Set at $25M, 10Aug2009}
{1 Main Street Rooftop Solarium, 25Jan2008}

Around the web:
{New Listing Arrives for Brooklyn’s Priciest Pad, 15Apr2011, Curbed}
{Price Cut, New Brokers for Brooklyn’s Priciest Pad, 14Apr2011, Curbed}
{‘Time’ to lower the price, 15Apr2011, NYP}
{Dumbo’s Clocktower triplex back on the market for $23.5M, 14Apr2011, TRD}
{The Most Expensive Condo in Brooklyn: Now Yours for a Mere $23.5 Mil, 14Apr2011, Brownstoner}