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\n The Hotel Bossert is becoming a condo with 60 to 70 large and luxurious apartments.
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When the Hotel Bossert opened in 1909, it was one of the most luxurious places to stay in all of Brooklyn, but it lost its luster in the years after World War II. In the 1960s, it became an SRO for respectable types and, subsequently, dormlike accommodations for visiting Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, a well-maintained place if not exactly glamorous. Now, the Brooklyn Heights hotel is returning to its (very) upscale roots with a condo conversion that its new owner, the commercial real-estate firm SomeraRoad, told the Brooklyn Heights blog <\/a>will bring \u201cthe most amenities a building in Brooklyn has seen.\u201d It\u2019s a big claim for a borough that has the Olympia Dumbo (bowling alley anyone?) and 11 Hoyt with its squash court and 75-foot saltwater pool. But the list does include a 60-foot pool, kids\u2019 play room, Pilates studio, and a private dining room.<\/p>\n Brooklyn Heights residents have been eagerly awaiting news of the Hotel Bossert\u2019s conversion since it sold to SomeraRoad for $100 million last spring after 14 years of limbo under developer Joseph Chetrit. Chetrit had planned to turn it back into a luxury hotel, but he never reopened it and ultimately lost the building to foreclosure. Somera\u2019s founder, Ian Ross, a Brooklyn Heights resident, told the blog in a recent video interview that he\u2019s been walking by the property for the past 15 years and trying to figure out how to buy it for the past five.<\/p>\n From the beginning, SomeraRoad has said it intended to convert the building to condos, but it didn\u2019t give many details beyond that. Now, Ross, who called Brooklyn Heights \u201cthe best neighborhood for families in New York,\u201d says that there will be 60 to 70 apartments, \u201cprimarily geared toward three- and four-bedroom users.\u201d He described the hotel conversion as a \u201cphenomenal opportunity to provide that condo product that the market is desperately seeking,\u201d noting that much of the neighborhood is landmarked, preventing ground-up new residential. As a result, there are a lot of very expensive townhouses and some sprawling co-ops, but not many condos \u2014 at least, not the type of ultraluxury condos that have popped up elsewhere in the borough in recent years, with the exception of a handful of new, very fancy options nearby, like Olympia Dumbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Besides the fact that the condos at the Bossert will be very large and very luxurious, which is not all that surprising \u2014 high-end family-oriented real estate<\/a> is having something of a moment in Brooklyn Heights \u2014 the other news to come out of the interview is that there will be an upscale restaurant in the hotel. (Besides a nail salon and double-filtered drinking water, the Bossert had a famous double-deck rooftop restaurant when it opened \u2014 the Marine Roof \u2014 although the upper floors will now most likely be reserved for condo owners.) Ross, who described the restaurant as \u201cour gift to the community and the neighborhood,\u201d which he called \u201cunderserved from a high-quality restaurant perspective,\u201d said the restaurant would be 5,000 square feet, most likely with some outdoor space, and that SomeraRoad was in conversation with \u201csome of the best restaurateurs in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign Up for the Curbed Newsletter<\/p>\n A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n