Welcome to The Towers, AKA 21 Clark St., a Brooklyn Heights Historic District property the Jehovah's Witnesses are offering for sale. Photo courtesy of Jehovah's Witnesses

By Lore Croghan

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Attention nostalgic Brooklyn Dodgers fans!

The Jehovah's Witnesses are selling the former Brooklyn Heights hotel where the forever-missed baseball team stayed during home games.

The Watchtower has just announced it is putting The Towers, also known as 21 Clark St., up for sale.

The Dodgers, who in the 1950s infamously left Brooklyn for Elsewhere (to this day, some of us find this trauma hard to write about), used the hotel as their home base, so to speak.

The 313,768-square-foot, 16-story building is now a residence for the Jehovah's Witnesses — but not for much longer.

The religious organization is liquidating its once-massive Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO real-estate holdings because it is moving its headquarters to upstate Warwick, NY.

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Port St. Lucie, FL Elder facing charges of sexual battery on child, lewd and lascivious behavior

by wifibandit in

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/crime/st-lucie-county/man-27-faces-charges-of-six-counts-sexual-battery-on-child-37eef916-9fe8-7596-e053-0100007f3f9d-387317751.html.

https://jail.stluciesheriff.com/inmateprofile.php?inmate_id=241566.

biggs, george calvin dob: 11-26-1978.

AndersonsInfo

I have learned that Biggs was disfellowshipped although I don't know when. The information that I received that he was known by the elders to have molested before was not accurate.

Barbara

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Port St. Lucie, FL Elder facing charges of sexual battery on child, lewd and lascivious behavior

by wifibandit in

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/crime/st-lucie-county/man-27-faces-charges-of-six-counts-sexual-battery-on-child-37eef916-9fe8-7596-e053-0100007f3f9d-387317751.html.

https://jail.stluciesheriff.com/inmateprofile.php?inmate_id=241566.

biggs, george calvin dob: 11-26-1978.

AndersonsInfo

Biggs used to live in Jupiter/Juno Beach, FL. A poster on reddit confirms that Biggs was a Witness and an elder as of 2009. Another poster said Biggs wife's name is Autumn Kay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/4wjboi/port_st_lucie_fl_elder_facing_charges_of_sexual/

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Port St. Lucie, FL Elder facing charges of sexual battery on child, lewd and lascivious behavior

by wifibandit in

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/crime/st-lucie-county/man-27-faces-charges-of-six-counts-sexual-battery-on-child-37eef916-9fe8-7596-e053-0100007f3f9d-387317751.html.

https://jail.stluciesheriff.com/inmateprofile.php?inmate_id=241566.

biggs, george calvin dob: 11-26-1978.

I sure would like to have more information about this case. It's especially interesting that he gave a talk at the convention at West Palm Beach last month. I heard from someone that Biggs was accused of molestation years ago but the elders did nothing. Is this accurate information?

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Brooklyn Eagle article about JWs moving out Brooklyn Heights in September

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/8/5/jehovahs-witnesses-will-start-moving-out-brooklyn-heights-headquarters-september.

the jehovah's witnesses will start moving out of brooklyn heights headquarters in september.

farewell to the jehovah's witnesses, who are moving out of their world headquarters at 25-30 columbia heights.

AndersonsInfo

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/8/5/jehovahs-witnesses-will-start-moving-out-brooklyn-heights-headquarters-September

The Jehovah's Witnesses will start moving out of Brooklyn Heights headquarters in September

Farewell to the Jehovah's Witnesses, who are moving out of their world headquarters at 25-30 Columbia Heights. Photos courtesy of Jehovah's Witnesses

By Lore Croghan

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Change is coming to Brooklyn Heights.

These two buildings, 50 and 58 Columbia Heights, are part of the just-sold Watchtower headquarters complex.

Watchtower workers are about to start moving out of their iconic headquarters, where their organization's name has been glowing in red-neon light for almost a half-century.

The Jehovah's Witnesses just sold their headquarters complex at 25-30 Columbia Heights for $340 million to a joint venture that includes a company headed by Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The buyers are a joint venture of Kushner Companies, CIM Group and LIVWRK.

A spokesman for the Watchtower told the Brooklyn Eagle that personnel at the Brooklyn Heights headquarters will start moving out of the complex in earnest in September. READ MORE

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/8/5/jehovahs-witnesses-will-start-moving-out-brooklyn-heights-headquarters-September

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Brooklyn WT Building sells for $340 million usd

by Sanchy in

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friends

it seems they sold the brooklyn headquarters building for $340 million.

this according the an article here.

AndersonsInfo

The photo of the headquarters of the Watch Tower in the article is the building I worked in for nearly eleven (11) years. If walls could talk, what stories they would tell!

I have a little story to tell about the first time I heard about that building I came to work in, known before the WT purchased it as one of the Squibb buildings. In 1959, going house-to-house in Palm Beach, Florida, I met a man who lived in a beautiful waterfront mansion. He told me he just came from a meeting with Nathan Knorr (he actually said, "I just came from a meeting with your boss") in Brooklyn, NY. He told me that the Watch Tower wanted to buy the two Squibb buildings. (He was one of the owners.) I called Joe Anderson at Bethel, who I was engaged to, telling him about the WT's negotiations to buy the Squibb buildings. Was that ever a surprise to him as not many Bethelites suspected that the WT was interested in purchasing those buildings.

Although the WT did not buy the buildings until ten years later, it was fun back then to know something about what was going on in the private business world of WT leaders. Little did I dream back in 1959 that I would end up in 1982 as a volunteer working at the building that became the WT headquarters when it was renovated in the 1970s.

I have so many memories from those years at Bethel and quite a number of things I learned about while working at 25 Columbia Heights, I'm happy to say, have helped many a JW out of the organization.

It was here that I learned all about the WT's hidden child abuse problems and I'm thankful to this day that it was possible for me to go public about this horrible mess some 14 years ago. Like I said, "If walls could talk, what stories they would tell."

Barbara

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Guardian Article: "How the police ended up running a paedophile site." Can only wonder if any JWs were caught

by AndersonsInfo in

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/shining-a-light-on-the-dark-web-how-the-police-ended-up-running-a-paedophile-site?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gu+today+main+new+h+categories&utm_term=181471&subid=15989913&cmp=emcneweml6619i2.

AndersonsInfo

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/shining-a-light-on-the-dark-web-how-the-police-ended-up-running-a-paedophile-site?

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I have a favor to ask. I need to find a statement that was in one of the magazines, but I can't find it now. Can you help?

by AndersonsInfo in

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friends

i have a favor to ask.

i need some information found in a watchtower that i can't seem to find in my library.

today, the watchtower teaches that the governing body is the faithful slave.

AndersonsInfo

I want to thank each and everyone of you for your input. However, Bobcat nailed it:

w81 3/1 pp. 24-25 Do You Appreciate the “Faithful and Discreet Slave”? ***
“WHO REALLY IS THE FAITHFUL AND DISCREET SLAVE?”

Barbara

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I have a favor to ask. I need to find a statement that was in one of the magazines, but I can't find it now. Can you help?

by AndersonsInfo in

jw
friends

i have a favor to ask.

i need some information found in a watchtower that i can't seem to find in my library.

today, the watchtower teaches that the governing body is the faithful slave.

AndersonsInfo

I have a favor to ask. I need some information found in a Watchtower that I can't seem to find in my library.

Today, the Watchtower teaches that the governing body is the faithful slave. At one time (maybe in the 1970s, 80s or 90s) the Watchtower actually published a comment about the notion that the faithful slave was comprised of prominent members of the Society (Bethel et al) and then it rejected the idea. I've read this paragraph myself so I know it's there in either a Watchtower or Awake! journal. But I can't find it now. Can someone help find this reference?

Thank you,

Barbara

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