Feb 24, 2014 1 min read

Broken Angel: A Timeline

Inside Broken Angel, where artist Arthur Wood spent 27 years adding on to the Downing Street building. (Photo provided by Tyler Chase) — This is after two years of construction that was never completed. Arthur Wood’s work of art; Broken Angel’s was destroyed. (Photo – compliments of Tyler A. Chase, from the feature documentary, “A Castle in Brooklyn, King Arthur” ©)

Artist Arthur Wood spent almost three decades making Broken Angel, a building on Downing Street in Clinton Hill, into an iconic Brooklyn sculpture. He lost the building to foreclosure and was evicted in May 2013 – after several years of legal wrangling – and it was sold last month to a condominium developer, Barrett Design and Development.

Here’s our timeline to show the history of the residence and its residents: