Carter's Review

This handsome, 6-story residential building at 139 North 10^th Street in Williamsburg was erected in 1910 as a warehouse and eventually converted to a toy factory and in 2014 to a rental residential building. 

It has 36 residential loft apartments.

In 2009, Ramon Maislen, whose family owned the building, tried to convert the commercial building to residential but could not buy out the tenants and fund the conversion so he sold it to Fortis Property Group in 2011.

Last year, Fortis sold it to the Greystone Property Development Corporation and it finished the conversion to rental units.

The conversion was designed by HTO Architect PLLC and Durukan Design handled the interiors.

Bottom Line

An attractive conversion and expansion of a red-brick commercial building into rental apartments in Williamsburg.

Description

A nicely finished conversion of a commercial building into luxury rental apartments with exposed brick walls and ceiling beams and 13-foot-high ceilings.

The conversion added a couple of floors to a setback and the second floor has large multi-paned windows.

Two ground-floor units have 50-foot-long solariums and a fifth-floor unit has a 225-square-foot terrace.

Amenities

The building has a roof deck, a virtual doorman, a video intercom, an elevator, a laundry and a bicycle room.

Apartments

Apartment GG is a two-bedroom unit with a home office off the entry foyer that leads to the living room that has an open kitchen.

Apartment 4G is a three-bedroom unit that has an open, pass-through kitchen off the entry foyer that leads to the living room with an alcove.

Apartment 1B is a one-bedroom duplex that has an open, pass-through kitchen off the entry foyer that leads to the living room and a bedroom on the upper floor and a large recreation space on the lower floor.