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Beyond Religion There Are Luxury Condos: A Story of Bushwick Churches

Photos by Andres Toro for Bushwick Daily The trend of converting churches into luxury housing has also hit Bushwick. It comes as no surprise when there are ravening hordes lusting after real estate throughout Kings County, and Bushwick boasts no less than 56 properties listed as places of worship within its conventional boundaries. To the […]

Beyond Religion There Are Luxury Condos: A Story of Bushwick Churches
Photos by Andres Toro for Bushwick Daily

Beyond Religion There Are Luxury Condos: A Story of Bushwick Churches

Photos by Andres Toro for Bushwick Daily The trend of converting churches into luxury housing has also hit Bushwick. It comes as no surprise when there are ravening hordes lusting after real estate throughout Kings County, and Bushwick boasts no less than 56 properties listed as places of worship within its conventional boundaries. To the […]

Beyond Religion There Are Luxury Condos: A Story of Bushwick Churches
Photos by Andres Toro for Bushwick Daily
Photos by Andres Toro for Bushwick Daily

The trend of converting churches into luxury housing has also hit Bushwick. It comes as no surprise when there are ravening hordes lusting after real estate throughout Kings County, and Bushwick boasts no less than 56 properties listed as places of worship within its conventional boundaries. To the secular, this may seem like a lot of houses of God and one might be compelled to argue that a few less churches wouldn’t do much harm, especially when a couple of churches can become as many as 131 residential units.

However, some of us have concerns about the kind of housing that is created in situations like this, and whether these type of property grabs will leave any space for…

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