Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Church for Sale, Affordable Housing in Crown Heights

Rare Cobblestone Church on Market Highlights Unusual Upstate Building Style

Texturally delightful, with rows of cobblestones rippling across the facade, this former church in Ontario County is an intriguing bit of New York architectural history. Between the 1820s and the mid 1860s, builders in the area used what was plentiful — small, rounded stones — to build houses, churches, schools, and other structures.

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Pre-Civil War Gothic Church Faces Wrecking Ball to Make Way for Apartments in Bed Stuy

It looks likely the St. Lucy-St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church on Willoughby Avenue in Bed Stuy will be demolished for a new residential development. The Gothic Revival church, which has dominated the block since 1856, will be the latest in a string of historic religious buildings on the stretch to be replaced by large apartment buildings.

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Affordable Housing Lottery Opens in Crown Heights for 18 Units Starting at $735 a Month

An affordable housing lottery has launched for 18 apartments in the under-construction Grand Pacific complex on the corner of Pacific Street and Grand Avenue in Crown Heights. The eight-story, 69-unit building with curved facade and swanky amenities is the result of an unusual deal brokered between the local community board and the developer that requires light manufacturing on the premises.

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New Build on Historic Bed Stuy Block OK’d by Landmarks, But Locals Say It’s Not Quite There

The revised design for a new four-story building on one of Bed Stuy’s most architecturally breathtaking blocks has been given the green light from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, provided the architect and preservation consultant working on the infill project continue to tweak some details with the help of the agency’s staff.

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Historic Bed Stuy Factory Building, Now Church, to Be Partially Demo’d for Condos

A Victorian rubber factory turned church — known to locals as the “Glorious Hurch” after the “c” went missing on its sign — on Marcus Garvey Boulevard will be transformed if plans go through for a partial demolition to make way for a new condo building on part of the site.

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