All Watchtower Brooklyn sales in 37 NYC doc pages + spreadsheet

by Corney 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Corney

  I have compiled 32 real property transfer reports (“Reports”) and 5 recording and endorsement cover pages (“Cover Pages”) that are NY City public records and available online on a836-acris.nyc.gov site.

  37 pages, 38 properties, $2.2bn, one Society... Enjoy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ryaj_4iHgs1uOYePTKbzdbmW9rd12DMf/view?usp=sharing
  

  See also spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1acdSqfUSm5Mi2zATfN87KsxmVrDzh0WFXG9nlOMDszw/edit?usp=sharing

  About the PDF doc: every Report relates to one property transfer irrespective of number of transferred properties, and contains, among others:

  full address of one of the transferred properties (field 1);

  buyer and seller names (fields 2, 8);

  full sale price (field 12).

  Cover Pages contain, among others, addresses of all transferred properties (field “Property Data”). Cover Pages are included only when two or more properties are transferred.
  
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  FatFreek 2005

  Good work
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  Roddy

  Wow! Was this public information or leaked information? Just curious.
  
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  careful

  Thanks Corney! In this other recent post,

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6211247931392000/news-jehovahs-witnesses-sell-last-piece-former-brooklyn-headquarters
  

  the sources seem to be in conflict, with one (the Patch) saying that the 30 Front St. property just sold was their last holding, and another (YIMBY) reporting that "The Witnesses still own two small properties at 80 and 86 Willow Street."

  I looked over the pdf you put together and could find no record of the sale of the 80 and 86 Willow St. properties (just 76 and 103). Do you know what the story is here?
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  Corney

  Roddy, that's public info. You can find all the records here: https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/PartyName

  careful, they're still owned by Watchtower.

  https://nycprop.nyc.gov/nycproperty/StatementSearch?bbl=3002290021&stmtDate=20181116&stmtType=SOA

  https://nycprop.nyc.gov/nycproperty/StatementSearch?bbl=3002290025&stmtDate=20181116&stmtType=SOA

  Also, you can check it here: https://webapps.nyc.gov/CICS/fin1/find001I

  
  
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  careful

  Corney,

  Thanks. So there's still more money to be made with their property there: $817,000 + $886,000, or $1.7 million more. Do you know why they're holding on to it?
  
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  Slidin Fast

  Excellent job, thanks for your efforts.
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  Betheliesalot

  What checks and balances are there in place to keep a greedy GB member or someone higher up to just keep some of the money? Kind of like the story revealed last month of 2 nuns were found out of stealing over $500,000.00 from their church over a 10 year period and using the money to go on vacations to mostly casino lined cities.
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  OrphanCrow

  Has anyone investigated who the buyers were/are?

  Some of the buyers listed are really vague. Some are foreign and they seem to be set up specifically for a single purchase on a single property.

  The money trail goes both ways. Who is next in line on the profit train?
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  Incognito

  the sources seem to be in conflict, with one (the Patch) saying that the 30 Front St. property just sold was their last holding, and another (YIMBY) reporting that "The Witnesses still own two small properties at 80 and 86 Willow Street."
  

  JW's like to when possible, rely on technicalities when denying or confirming an accusation - IF a response is actually offered.

  While those two Willow Street properties may be located closeby to the former WT Headquarters, perhaps they are not considered or identified as part of the 'headquarters' properties the Patch article is written about.