Rest In Peace: Iconic 'Watchtower' Sign Taken Down After 7 Decades Over Brooklyn

All Along The Watchtower (365:346) | While standing by the South Street Seaport waterfront, I always look across the East River and spot the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses" rel="nofollow">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>' Watchtower building in Brooklyn. Today's photograph illustrates how balmy New York City felt on December 12th.
All Along The Watchtower (365:346) | While standing by the South Street Seaport waterfront, I always look across the East River and spot the Jehovah's Witnesses' Watchtower building in Brooklyn. Today's photograph illustrates how balmy New York City felt on December 12th.

After 70 years sitting atop 30 Columbia Street on the Brooklyn Waterfront, the iconic bright red Watchtower sign and current temperature have been taken down so the building can add luxury condominiums.

The Watchtower sign, a Brooklyn waterfront icon for 70 years, was taken down on Wednesday from atop the former Jehovah’s Witnesses building at 30 Columbia St. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is moving to upstate Warwick. The nonprofit sold five Dumbo buildings last year for $340 million to a joint venture of Kushner Companies, CIM Group and LIVWRK, which plans to turn the properties into an office complex called Panorama.

Here's Your Chance to Hear a 300-Year-Old Stradivarius Violin in Person at Carnegie Hall

Violinist Janine Jansen will be appearing at Carnegie Hall during the 2017–2018 with her new partner—a new Stradivarius violin. […] Janine Jansen is a charismatic violinist of tremendous versatility and breathtaking virtuosity, performing on the world’s great concert stages with legendary orchestras and conductors. She is also a superb chamber musician, having established enduring bonds with the esteemed musicians who regularly performed with her during her artistic directorship (2003–2016) of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht.

Visit Carnegie Hall to learn more about the 300-year-old Stradivarius violin and musician Janine Jansen’s 2017-2018 Carnegie Hall Perspectives series.