Dumbo’s Clock Tower triplex yanked from rental market after six days

The penthouse triplex at 1 Main Street in Dumbo

David Walentas’ famous Clock Tower triplex in Dumbo has been pulled

from the rental market less than a week after making headlines as the
priciest apartment up for lease in Brooklyn.

The 7,000-square-foot spread, which is still listed for sale for $23.5
million, had been asking $50,000 per month. The Post reported
yesterday that listing broker and “Selling New York” star Michele
Kleier, of Gumley Haft Kleier, was seeking a renter to sign a two-year
lease with an option to buy, but she confirmed to The Real Deal this
morning that time has already run out for that opportunity. She declined to comment further on her reasoning, but once

again, if you want views of the New York Harbor and Brooklyn Bridge
through those 14-foot glass-faced clocks, you’re going to have to buy
them.

The four-bedroom condominium, which, if it sells at anywhere near its
asking price, will set a Brooklyn record, also features 16-foot
ceilings and a private, glass-enclosed elevator leading to a “crow’s
nest” deck.

The 1 Main Street trophy was
originally listed for $25 million in 2009 by Walentas’ Two Trees
Management, but was pulled from the market last summer in the midst of
a possible rent-to-own deal with a prospective buyer. It came back
online in April when Kleier, along with daughters Samantha Kleier
Forbes and Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern, snagged the listing and chopped the price to its current $23.5 million.

The highest price ever paid for a home in Brooklyn was $11 million for
a house in Gravesend in 2006.