Man Found Dead In DUMBO Clock Tower Building, Police Say

DUMBO, BROOKLYN — A man was found dead with a pillow and towel across his face in DUMBO’s iconic Clock Tower building on Monday, police said.

A houseguest discovered the unconscious Neil Smith, 57, lying in a bed in his fourth-floor apartment at 1 Main St. around 1:45 p.m., said police.

Emergency responders pronounced the man, whose name has not yet been released, dead at the scene and the Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death, said police.

The Clock Tower last made news in May when its penthouse apartment was bought by a Colombian art dealer for $15 million, which broke the record for the borough’s most expensive condominium, according to a Real Deal report.

The Clock Tower was also the site of one of the more notorious cases of Brooklyn real estate porn in the borough’s history — Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman filmed a highly-suggestive video of himself enjoying the penthouse in 2009, Gothamist reported at the time.

Anne Hathaway once lived in the Clock Tower building, and socialite Olivia Palermo and Johannes Huebl, her husband, still do, according to Gothamist.

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