'You’re interacting with the world out there where time keeps moving — but in here, everything is freeze-framed.'
Outside the Hotel Bossert. Photo: Sarah Blesener for New York Magazine From the outside, the Hotel Bossert on Brooklyn Heights’s tree-lined Montague Street looks to be deserted. At night, its windows are mostly dark. Inside, the grand marble-and-tile lobby is empty apart from a lone security guard listening to the radio at a foldout table.
The Bossert was originally built in 1909 by a Williamsburg-based lumber magnate as a state-of-the-art accommodation for both transient and permanent guests. Back then, a brochure tempted would-be residents with promises of celebrity neighbors, proximity to Brooklyn’s steamships, double-filtered drinking water, and even an on-site nail salon.
They liked their apartment much better back then, too. “We had the best rubberized floor. It was perfect. You could mop it, you could sweep it; the Jehovah’s did that special for us before they left,” says Elana. Daisy agrees. “We had beautiful stuff like copper in the bathrooms. Every three years, they would come and knock on my door and say, ‘Mrs. Diamontopulos, it’s time to paint.
A 91-year-old English expat, Monica had moved to the Bossert in the 1950s with her husband, a judge advocate for the U.S. Army, and their baby son. A friend recommended it as a good place for families. Monica also considered leaving when the hotel was sold, she says. “It’s a difficult move. My son and daughter-in-law are over in Manhattan, and that’s very expensive, so I said, ‘No. This is my home. I’ll sit here and see what happens, and then if it’s really hopeless, I’ll do something.
The front lobby and outside the Hotel Bossert after dusk. As the hotel is under renovation, only a few tenant lights remain on while the rest of the building is dark. Photo: Sarah Blesener for New York Magazine. The front lobby and outside the Hotel Bossert after dusk. As the hotel is under renovation, only a few tenant lights remain on while the rest o... more The front lobby and outside the Hotel Bossert after dusk.
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