The bad boy history of Montrose Smoked Fish and the insuing saga...

The Past, Today and into The Future…

The building is available for General lease.

Everyone knows Brooklyn has changed but it hasn't changed in the direction where you can have a brand new glass and aluminum building with Applebee's fake antiques and expect it to be cool.. Montrose smoked fish was built for industrial smoking fish with 13 foot high ceilings and 2 ft thick floors- Beyond fire rating is a stainless steel freight elevator. It survived its own front page fire. This is Hardcore Brooklyn

This building built by the Korchin family, see New York Times article below, the Suttenburg family who purchased the property in 1932 and myself has served us well. I believe there are so few remnants of what makes Brooklyn cool that the exterior graphics of the Jewish emigre business should remain and be enhanced.

This building is located in Williamsburg Brooklyn. It was built in 1921 by the Korchin family as a production facility for smoked fish. The Korchin family moved to  Marshall Smoked fish .  See the New York Times review.  The graphics on the building remain from the 1920s and 1930s reflecting both businesses dedicated to smoke fish.

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The family name of the owner of Montrose Smoked Fish

The New York Times article  “For Smoked Fish, The Brooklyn Touch”

 http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/19/garden/for-smoked-fish-the-brooklyn-touch.html

Video Building Tour

This video will take you on a tour of the whole building, showing each floor and the two roof decks that are accessible from the top two floors.

Floor plan and elevation of 71 Montrose Ave

To see floor plans or original and current C of O with Korchin as original owner with further details regarding feasibility and building lease usage see contact page

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