Buildings With a Past: Creating NYC Apartment From Sacred Spaces
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By C. J. Hughes
NEW YORK---Whether from creeping apathy or people going elsewhere to worship, many churches and synagogues in some parts of the city have watched their congregations shrink for years. Some of those religious buildings went residential long ago, like the columned Greek Revival on 143 West 13th Street in Greenwich Village that is now a co-op. But what Heritage, the development firm, is building at a site on North Sixth Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, near bustling Bedford Street, is more ambitious. On a block-through site that used to contain the St. Vincent de Paul campus — a Roman Catholic rectory, school and church — the firm is creating Spire Lofts, a 104-unit interconnected rental complex that has many original building elements, even though the site is not landmarked. [link]
By C. J. Hughes
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| Rough-hewed beams and lancet windows punctuate living spaces at Spire Lofts, being developed on the former St. Vincent de Paul campus in Williamsburg. Credit Michael Nagle for The New York Times |