Evan Bindelglass reports for Curbed: 121-Year-Old Upper West Side Church Will Add Apartments. The congregation wanted it, and now it will become a reality: the Upper West Side’s Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church will get a residential addition. The Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday approved its DXA studio-designed conversion to mixed-use—hosting both religious and residential uses. (Seems to be the direction dozens of other houses of worship