Development Watch: 155 15th Street

Driving through the South Slope last week, we noticed a new building going up at 155 15th Street that had heretofore escaped our notice. When we looked it up on Property Shark we found that the five-story structure was rising on the site of a former church. According to IMBY, the church was called the Polish National Catholic Church of the Holy Cross and was torn down shortly after a Queens-based developer paid $3,850,000 for the church, the adjacent rectory and an empty parking lot. Replacing it is a 21-unit residential building with 14 parking spaces. Bummer.
155-161 15th Street Losing Its Religion [IMBY] GMAP P*Shark DOB

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Feel bad for the people who live there and the surrounding
block's. I go to the gym up the block and I never drive because I know how hard it is to find someplace to park on that block.

Posted by: richierich at January 5, 2009 2:22 PM

The church was pretty charmless, and the congregation was pretty much gone to Long Island. But it had a pretty awesome outbuilding behind it made of plastic 2-liter-coke-bottle crates. And some nice plantings in their garden.

Posted by: dbrown at January 5, 2009 3:17 PM

Just a little history . . .

The church was built as the second church building for the Greenwood Baptist Church - now located at the corner of 6th Street and 7th Avenue in Park Slope.

They built the 15th Street building (~ 1888) to move further up the hill (they were at 3rd avenue) and that area was said to have a growing "Romanists" population at the time.

The late owner of the land where my house stands today, "Joseph Wild," was a decon at Greenwood Baptist (at the 15th Street location) and left over $10,000. in his 1896 will earmarked for the construction of the 7th Avenue building. If memory serves me correctly this large amount represented close to half the cost.

Posted by: SenatorStreet at January 5, 2009 7:37 PM

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Development Watch: 155 15th Street

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