Brooklyn

First Baptist Church in Pierrepont Street agreed to sell 360 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn for $28.3 million to developers planning housing, calling the site a financial burden and planning to move its ministries.

First Baptist Church in Pierrepont Street agreed to sell 360 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn for $28.3 million to developers planning housing, calling the site a financial burden and planning to move its ministries.

Paul Mitchell, a Jamaica-born pastor of a Brooklyn church, pleaded guilty to tax evasion after using church credit cards and cheques for personal spending from 2015 to 2022, causing an estimated $2.9 million federal tax loss.

Gospel artist Bishop Hezekiah Walker’s Love Fellowship Tabernacle broke ground on HezHouse Apartments in East New York, a 236-unit affordable and supportive housing development built with non-profit and private partners.

Charity Baptist Church sold its Crown Heights building, the former Fox Savoy Theater, for $575,000 in 2012 on a promise of ground-floor space in the new development. Records showed its sanctuary placed in the cellar instead.