 The old Jewish area of Williamsburg east of Broadway was strongly impacted by the construction of the Brooklyn @-@ Queens Expressway in the 1950s . The congregation 's building was expropriated and demolished . It joined with another large Ashkenazi synagogue in the same situation , and in 1957 the merged congregations constructed the current building at the edge of the " Jewish Triangle " , just west of Broadway . In 1965 , Chaim A. Pincus was the rabbi . 
