According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses could quite possibly the largest single landowner in Brooklyn, N.Y. except that is for the government. What’s clear is that the organization, owns a staggering amount of Brooklyn real estate, and is certainly the largest single property owner, at least in the Brooklyn Heights area.

A ‘Witness’ to the future as Watchtower buys land upstate
Original Article at: The Brooklyn Paper
By Evan Gardner
“First came the sell-off, next comes the big move.
After five years of selling off hundreds of millions of dollars in real-estate holdings in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have finally bought something big: 248 acres upstate.
The Promised Land (for Witnesses, at least) has a name: Ramapo, NY.