Built in 1928 as the Leverich Towers Hotel, the Brooklyn Heights property gained fame for two decades as the pregame home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. After a subsequent stint as dormitory-style housing, the 310,000-sq-ft building is now home to Brooklyn’s first luxury community for seniors thanks to a $70-million renovation. The building contains 275 apartments in multiple floorplans, all featuring the hotel’s original mahogany-frame windows as well as a host of amenities.
Despite the absence of original plans and specifications, the project was designed and built to preserve the original interior design and layout where possible. That included reclaiming the hotel’s original two-story ballroom space by reopening a 2,109-sq-ft hole in the first-floor concrete slab, which had been sealed in the 1970s to create a mezzanine area.