This building on Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn—currently housing Prospect Heights Beer Works a home-brewers supply shop—caught my eye. It's an interesting shape (it's triangular, something you can't see in this photo) and then there are those three sets of large metal brackets at the top that appear to have no current use.
Could the Weiner Brothers have something to do with those brackets? Their name is on the cornice, which states the brothers built the structure in 1912.
Weiner Bros. was a furniture concern. (It was not a a dry goods store, as this faded ad blog attests Those appear to be two separate ads, side by side.)
Harris Weiner died in 1917. I assume he was one of the brothers. Beyond that, I can't find out much about the business, or the building. Which is too bad, because I'd really like to know what happened with the cornice inscription. I looked at that thing for a long time. There seems to be a misspelling or something. Between the "W" and "N" there appear to be two "E"s and an "I" all mashed up together. What the heck happened? Did the engraver misspell the name, thinking it was "Weener," and then, when he found he was wrong, just stuck in an "I" rather than start over, because that would have cost too much? The world will never know.
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