Tiffany window leaves a Brooklyn landmark as its site hits the market

The Landmarks Preservation Commission took up an application on September 15 from the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island to make permanent the removal of a 12-panel Tiffany Studios stained-glass window from St. Bartholomew’s Church at 1227 Pacific Street in Crown Heights. The commission’s calendar describes a Romanesque Revival church and Sunday school building by George P. Chappell, built 1886 to 1890, and states the request plainly: “Application is to remove a stained-glass window.”

At the same time, Ariel Property Advisors is marketing 1227-1231 Pacific Street as a 30,781 sq ft block-through assemblage with Atlantic Avenue frontage. Both facts sit on the public record.

Why it matters

Individual-landmark status governs the exterior and, where separately designated, the interior. The calendar lists St. Bartholomew’s as an Individual Landmark, without the separate interior designation the same agenda applies to the RCA Building lobby. What the commission permits here sets the terms on which the site can be sold: whether the removal is made permanent, and what that implies about its posture toward further alteration.

The numbers

We pulled PLUTO for Brooklyn Block 1200. Three adjoining lots share one owner of record, The Trustees of the Estate Belonging to the Diocese of Long Island, at 36 Cathedral Avenue in Garden City. Lot 16, the 1890 church at 1222 Atlantic Avenue, is 22,941 sq ft, zoned C6-3A and R6A inside the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use special district. Lot 72 at 1231 Pacific Street is 5,340 sq ft and Lot 80 at 1227 Pacific is 2,500 sq ft, both R6A, built 1900 and 1910.

Those total 30,781 sq ft, reconciling exactly with the broker’s figure. The buildings on them total 27,036 sq ft, a blended built FAR of 0.88. Applying each lot’s maximum residential FAR, 7.52 on the church lot and 3.0 on the two R6A lots, the assemblage supports roughly 196,000 sq ft. That leaves about 169,000 sq ft unbuilt. At a flat R6A 3.0 across all three lots, the floor is 92,343 sq ft, still triple what stands.

ACRIS shows the parish deeded all three lots to the Diocese on May 15, 2019 at zero consideration, consolidating ownership. A 1974 landmark instrument is filed against Lot 16.

What’s next

DOB records show no demolition or new-building application at the site. The three filings on Lot 16 are alterations: a 2022 pipe scaffold and a 2021 structural job, neither changing use or occupancy. The window, crated by J&R Lamb Studios, is stored in Queens under temporary approval PMW-25-01633. No asking price has been published, and the outcome of the hearing on docket LPC-26-12626 was not available.

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