Williamsburg Residential Building With Sky Bridge to Landmarked Church Nears Completion

A 16-story residential building rising next to a landmarked church in Williamsburg — with a sky bridge attaching the pair — is nearing completion.

A visit last week revealed much of the building is finished except for the ground floor, where windows have been installed but work is still under way. The building at 329 Broadway (or 304 Rodney) stands next to St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, an individual landmark whose address is 306 Rodney Street.

Restoration and maintenance of the church, including the stained glass windows, will be funded by the sale of the air rights and easements, which was approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in January 2019.

The proposal the LPC approved includes the addition of a sky bridge, which will stretch from the top of the four-story base of the building to the roof of the church next door. The bridge is currently only partially constructed (as can be seen in the picture below).

There will be 33 parking spaces underground, and retail space on the ground floor. A childcare facility will occupy the second and third floors, while an ambulatory care facility will occupy the fourth and fifth. The 12 stories above are dedicated to residential.

In January, an “affordable” housing lottery was launched for 19 income-restricted, rent stabilized units in the building at 130 percent of the area median income, starting at $2,241 a month.

Syndicate Architecture is the applicant of record, and the developer is Juda Klein of Parkview Management, which purchased the formerly empty lot for $4.7 million in 2013.

The building towers above the J/M/Z elevated train line and a particularly busy stretch of Broadway. One block away, the 23-story skyscraper behind the historic neo-classical Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh was recently completed.

[Photos by Craig Hubert unless otherwise noted]

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