Carter's Review

This development at 130 Jackson Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was originally a Civil War munitions foundry and later a book depository before being converted in 2007 to a residential condominium comprised of two buildings with 21 apartments.

The development, which is known as the Jackson Foundry Lofts, is between Manhattan and Graham avenues.

Penson Horrigan LLC was the developer.

Standard Architects of which Michael Shapiro is a principal designed the conversion.

Bottom Line

An architectural mélange, this low-rise condominium apartment building is better inside than out with exposed timber columns and rolling fire doors.

Description

This project has two red-brick building façades and two white façades. Part of it dates to 1865.  There on fire escapes on one of the red-brick façades and one of the white façades.

There is a narrow, light-colored and angular metallic addition with irregular fenestration on one side that adds a light-colored fifth floor, partially setback, to another end of the building where its façade “dips” to three stories near the middle.

The building has a few balconies and terraces.

The building has two very handsome, glass-and-metal entrance marquees with the building’s name inside the outer girder of the one on a red-brick façade.

Five apartments have their own entrance at 364 Manhattan Avenue.

Amenities

The building has a roof deck, and elevator, video security and is pet friendly.

Apartments

Apartments have washers and dryers.

Some of the units have exposed brick walls and wooden ceiling beams.

Three ground floor units are duplexes with private backyards, two of which include smoke stacks.

Apartment 4D is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past an open 12-foot-long kitchen with an island to a 13-foot-wide living room next to a 14-foot-long terrace that is also accessible from the bedroom.

Apartment 1G is a two-bedroom duplex with an entry next to a 15-foot-wide, pass-through kitchen next to a 22-foot-wide living room with a spiral staircase to the bedrooms on the upper level.

Apartment 1B is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past an open, 11-foot-wide kitchen with an island next to an 18-foot-long living room with a staircase with glass sides that goes down to the lower level that has a 23-foot-long large room and a 10-foot-long storage room.

Apartment 4G at 364 Manhattan Avenue is a two-bedroom unit with a 25-foot-long living dining room with an open kitchen with an island, a spiral staircase to the lower bedroom level, and a 26-foot-long terrace.