Facing Financial Pressures, Brooklyn Churches Explore Development
Hundreds of Brooklyn religious leaders attended a recent meeting sponsored by Borough President Eric Adams about how faith-based organizations can earn money and develop their properties by selling...
View ArticleBushwick Church Sells off Its Properties for $2.98 Million
It looks like another Brooklyn church is likely to become apartments. Calvary Spanish Pentecostal Church, aka Calvary Assembly of God, has sold seven properties on Suydam and Hart Streets to an LLC...
View ArticleBig Bushwick Church Development Will Have Affordable Rentals, Worship Space
The developer who paid $2,980,000 for a Bushwick church and related properties last week plans to include affordable housing and a large amount of space for the church in the new building. A...
View ArticleChurch-Owned Apartment Conversion Rising in Downtown Brooklyn
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is fairly far along with its conversion of a two-story church and community building into 84 apartments at 200 Nassau Street in Downtown Brooklyn, despite a...
View ArticleSee Inside Bed Stuy’s Pre-Civil War Carpenter Gothic Church Before Demo
A mutual friend forwarded these photos, taken by a neighbor about two months ago, of the inside of the Carpenter Gothic church at 809 Jefferson Avenue. The photographer commented: Friends of mine...
View ArticleExcavation Begins at Fox Savoy Theater Site in Crown Heights
Work has begun on the 10-story apartment building that will rise on the site of the former Fox Savoy Theater at 1515 Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights. Earth movers began excavating at Bedford and...
View ArticleBed Stuy’s Pre-Civil War Carpenter Gothic Church Is Mid-Demo
The Carpenter Gothic church at 809 Jefferson Avenue, one of Bed Stuy’s oldest structures, is now a mere shell. Demolition to make way for apartments and a new church started in January. From the...
View ArticleArtifacts From Soon-to-Be-Demolished Historic Boerum Hill Church Go up for Sale
The end is nigh for Boerum Hill’s mid-19th-century Church of the Redeemer, despite efforts to save it. Yesterday Demolition Depot sent out a notice that the 4th Avenue church’s historic artifacts and...
View ArticleExcavator Tears Into Bed Stuy’s Pre-Civil War Carpenter Gothic Church Thursday
Brownstoner reader brooklynverni snapped these dramatic photos Thursday of an excavator demolishing one of Bed Stuy’s oldest buildings, the pre-Civil War Carpenter Gothic church at 809 Jefferson...
View ArticleClosing Bell: A Bike Tour of Central Brooklyn’s Forgotten Synagogues
As the demographics of central Brooklyn have changed over the years, synagogues in once heavily Jewish areas have gone on to have other lives. Ellen Levitt, author of “The Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn”...
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