
Photography: Corcoran
This lofty apartment in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill has gone on sale for $1.695m – complete with a 14ft-tall library.
A steel mezzanine snakes around the top of the two-bedroom apartment, making the most its double-height volume, and providing easy access to books on some 30ft of custom shelving.

Photography: Corcoran

Photography: Corcoran

Photography: Corcoran
The bolthole, listed by Jodie Garay for Corcoran, sits in the corner of the Brooklyn Ex Lax Factory, built in the 1920s and converted into co-op apartments in 1981. It’s capped by a sweeping curved ceiling, which towers over the living room and dining room space.
You can play about with the configuration of the apartment: an extra sleeping area could be fashioned on the mezzanine, turning it into a three-bedroom dwelling.

For outside space, residents of the Ex-Lax Building have access to a large landscaped roof terrace that has 360 degree views of Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan.