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Tucked away surreptitiously behind the clock face of Brooklyn’s landmarked Eagle Warehouse & Storage Company building in Dumbo is a penthouse that is headed to the market Friday for $2.35 million, Mansion Global has exclusively learned.

The clock, which doubles as a unique window offering views over the nearby Brooklyn Bridge, the East River and across into Manhattan, is a relic of the building’s industrial heritage that dates to the late 1800s and includes the tenure of the long-shuttered local newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle.

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It’s an “iconic New York property,” said listing agent Nick Gavin of Compass, who is handling the sale with his colleague, Josh Doyle.

“There are buyers in the market that are waiting for authentic, true loft space buildings that have history and bricks and beams. There are buyers that are a little bit tired of glass towers,” Mr. Gavin said.

“People want a connection to older New York and older Brooklyn,” he said. “You certainly feel the history here.”

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The property is being sold by architect Michael Davis, who has owned the home since 1997, he said in an email. Mansion Global could not determine how much he paid for the property.

When Mr. Davis bought the one-bedroom spread, the home was in a drastically different condition to the brick-covered loft that listing photos reveal today.

It was “generic in the extreme with a few ghastly ‘Miami Vice’ flourishes,” said Mr. Davis, referring to the 1980s cop television show.

It was packed with sheetrock, glass brick, low ceilings, small rooms, popcorn plaster and faux wood veneer cabinets with melamine counters, he said, “but with a huge clock facing the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River.”

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The most important phase in transforming the space was demolition, he told Mansion Global.

“I tore out all the walls, revealing brick on four sides [and] exposed an additional five feet of ceiling height,” he said. “The objective was to reveal the character and scale of the industrial space that had preceded the conversion to residential use, and all the artifacts and infrastructure that had been concealed.”

After close to 100 years functioning commercially as a warehouse or offices, the nine-story building was converted into residences in 1980.

Now the home is fitted with skylights, wooden floors, and exposed pipes and beams still run through the space.

Mr. Davis wanted the feel of the home to be “groovy,” he said. “The coolest loft in Brooklyn on an intimate scale, a treehouse in the rigging of the Brooklyn Bridge.”

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WINDOW TREATMENTS The main floor of a triplex for sale in the Clock Tower Building, Brooklyn.Credit...Ángel Franco/The New York Times

• Aug. 7, 2009

TIME waits for no man, certainly not during a real estate downturn in Brooklyn.

So despite the tumbling prices for trophy apartments, a striking triplex penthouse apartment in a clock tower overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor has gone on the market for $25 million, more than double the highest price known to have been paid for a home in Brooklyn.

The main floor of the sleek modern apartment is dominated by four working clocks housed in four 14-foot-high round windows, which provide nearly unobstructed views (except for the clock faces) out to the four points of the compass.

The penthouse sits atop one of the tallest buildings in Dumbo, the cobblestoned neighborhood that in the 1980s sprang to life in a former industrial area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

The 3,000-square-foot main floor has an open living room, dining room and kitchen with 16-foot-high ceilings. A glass-walled elevator and a three-story floating staircase at the center of the space lead to smaller floors that narrow toward the top of the tower. There are three bedrooms on the 2,300-square-foot second floor (watch your head as you walk along the exterior walls), and on the floor above that, a 988-square-foot open loft with a 15-foot ceiling. Finally, up a narrow staircase at the very top of the building is a tiny windswept crow’s nest.

The apartment was created by David Walentas, the creator of the Dumbo neighborhood, in an old industrial building built by a cardboard box manufacturer. Mr. Walentas renamed the factory the ClockTower Building and converted it first into offices for the New York State Labor Department, and then, in 1998, into 124 condominiums.

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