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…
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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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.
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.
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.