Astral Apartments

	The Astral Apartments
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Astral Apartments, August 2008
Location	184 Franklin St., New York, New York
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Area	less than one acre
Built	1885
Architect	Lamb & Rich
NRHP Reference #	82001178
Added to NRHP	October 29, 1982

The Astral Apartments is a historic apartment building located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, New York.

The Astral was built in 1885–1886 as affordable housing for employees of Charles Pratt's Astral Oil Works. It is a massive brick and terra cotta building in the Queen Anne style.^[2] It features a central projecting section with a deep, three story high round arch recess.^[3] The roof features inward-looking decorative gargoyles.

Originally, a branch of the Pratt Institute Free Library operated from the ground floor of the Astral.^[4]

The building was designed to echo red-brick apartments built for workers by George Peabody in London.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982^[1] and designated a City Landmark in 1983.

In popular culture

The building is the fictional setting for Kate Christensen's 2011 novel The Astral.

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↑ Ostrander, Stephen M. (1894). A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. Brooklyn, NY: Subscription.

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[4] Ostrander, Stephen M. (1894). A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. Brooklyn, NY: Subscription.

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