PRYM
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Design-Build · By Referral · New York

One team, from the first drawing to the final detail.

PRYM Builders is a Brooklyn design-build studio for owners who care how a thing is made. For twenty-five years we have delivered commercial, retail, and private residential work where the brief is set by the client's eye and met by our hands — design, permits, and construction under one accountable roof.

25
Years, Quietly Built
By Referral
Nearly Every Project
Est. 2000
Brooklyn, New York
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X-Golf Brooklyn — the finished bar and lounge of a 20,000 SF industrial-to-hospitality conversion by PRYM NYSF Sunset Yards lobby — raw floor plate converted into 60 sound-isolated studios Rockaway Park beach house — Victorian three-family remade as a modern residence
The Practice

Design and construction, held to a single standard.

PRYM is a design-build general contractor — one studio responsible for a project from the first sketch to the last walkthrough. Nothing is lost in the handoff between architect, contractor, and trade, because there is no handoff.

We hold a small number of projects at a time, across commercial, retail, and private residential. The scope varies. The level of care does not.

01 / Commercial

Commercial & Hospitality

Offices, hospitality, and destinations meant to be experienced. From raw floor plate to opening night — structure, systems, millwork, and finish, coordinated by one team that sweats the seams.

02 / Residential

Private Residences

Full renovations and singular homes for those who live with intention. Every material chosen, every junction resolved — the discipline of our commercial work, brought home.

03 / Design-Build

Conversions & Repositioning

Reading a building for what it might become, then making it so. We turn overlooked space into address-defining destinations — feasibility and design through permits and construction.

Selected Work

A quarter-century of range — quietly built.

A virtual-golf destination, a sixty-studio creative house, a jeweller's flagship, a house remade to the studs. Different buildings, different briefs — one standard on each. A selection below; the rest on request.

X-Golf Brooklyn — the finished bar and lounge of a 20,000 SF industrial-to-hospitality conversion by PRYM
North Williamsburg · Brooklyn
X-Golf Brooklyn

20,000 SF Industrial → A Destination for Play

Before
A 20,000 SF warehouse retail shell in North Williamsburg, awaiting a second life. 105 North 13th Street, Brooklyn NY 11249.
After
The first X-Golf location in Brooklyn — a full gut renovation into a virtual-golf destination with eight simulator bays, a custom bar, multiple lounge areas, and a mezzanine office. An anchor for an emerging entertainment district.
PRYM Scope
Assisted with design decisions · general contracting · full gut renovation · eight virtual-golf bays · custom bar with terrazzo countertops · multiple lounge areas · commercial kitchen · mezzanine office with wood flooring · hidden storage · 220V & 110V electrical throughout · polished concrete, terrazzo & hardwood floors · custom carpentry & painting.
Scosha — Williamsburg jewellery flagship with custom laser-cut steel storefront gates
Williamsburg · Brooklyn
Scosha

A Jeweller's Flagship

Before
A retail bay at 62 Grand Street, Williamsburg, awaiting the hand of a fine-jewellery house.
After
A flagship built to hold a brand — laser-cut steel storefront gates, bespoke casework, and finishes calibrated to the pieces they display.
PRYM Scope
Assisted with design decisions · retail buildout · custom laser-cut steel storefront gates · new white oak floors · custom jewelry display cases · arched alcove recessed wall displays · added workshop & two offices · electrical · new ductwork & ventilation for the jeweller's bench station · landscaped outdoor garden.
NYSF Sunset Yards — lobby of a raw floor plate converted into 60 sound-isolated studios
Sunset Park · Brooklyn
NYSF Sunset Yards

16,000 SF Raw Floor → 60 Sound-Isolated Studios

Before
A raw 16,000 SF floor plate on the seventh storey of an industrial building. 341 39th Street, Brooklyn NY 11232.
After
Self-developed by PRYM into sixty sound-isolated studios via room-in-room construction, with full HVAC, electric, plumbing, and polished concrete. Today it operates as New York Studio Factory — a members' house for beauty, wellness, and production.
PRYM Scope
Design-build & self-development · sixty sound-isolated studios via room-in-room construction · floated floors throughout the studios · polished concrete in lounge & common areas · terrazzo reception countertop · full HVAC package with 60+ independent mini-split units, one per studio & lounge · electrical & plumbing.
Rockaway Park beach house — Victorian three-family remade as a modern black-clad residence
Rockaway Park · Queens
Beach House

Victorian Three-Family → A Modern House by the Sea

Before
A dated Victorian three-family in Rockaway Park — original siding, tired systems, deferred throughout.
After
A beach house remade from the custom facade cladding and windows to the heated concrete floors — taken to the studs and rebuilt with all new systems, custom carpentry, and finished landscape. The range of our commercial work, at the scale of a home.
PRYM Scope
Design-build gut renovation · basement & first floor combined into an owner's duplex, plus two rental apartments · poured-concrete heated floors · new quadruple-glazed windows · deck & carport extension · new roof & siding · electrical, HVAC & plumbing · custom carpentry · landscaping.
An empty raw office wrapped in the tower's signature full-height angular glazing
Williamsburg · Brooklyn
Five-Star Hotel

Two Raw Floors → A Sixty-Office Creative Workplace

Before
Two full floors — some 20,000 SF of raw community-facility plate — inside Brooklyn’s only five-star hotel, wrapped in the tower’s signature angular glass.
After
A sixty-office creative workplace — a reception and lounge in walnut and marble, studios opening to the Manhattan skyline, and gender-neutral restrooms in terrazzo, oak, and lit stone.
PRYM Scope
Design-build · full two-floor raw-floor-plate build-out · sixty offices · reception & custom millwork · fabricated & installed custom metal portal windows in the hallway walls · custom welded metal-and-glass office doors · new electric, HVAC & plumbing · polished concrete, terrazzo & oak finishes.
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Featured Project

Two raw floors inside Brooklyn’s only five-star hotel — sixty offices, built.

Williamsburg · Brooklyn Brooklyn’s Only Five-Star Hotel
Creative studio with dramatic angular glazing and skyline views inside a five-star Brooklyn hotel
A studio wrapped in the tower’s signature angular glass — high above Williamsburg
Before
Two full floors — some 20,000 SF of raw community-facility plate — inside Brooklyn’s only five-star hotel. A bare shell, wrapped in the tower’s signature angular glass.
After
A sixty-office creative workplace — a reception and waiting lounge in walnut and marble, furnished and raw studios opening to the Manhattan skyline, and gender-neutral restrooms finished in terrazzo, oak, and lit stone.
PRYM Scope
Design-build · full two-floor raw-floor-plate build-out · sixty offices · reception & custom millwork · fabricated & installed custom metal portal windows in the hallway walls · custom welded metal-and-glass office doors · new electric, HVAC & plumbing · polished concrete, terrazzo & oak finishes.
01ArrivalClick any image to enlarge
Reception and waiting lounge in walnut and marble
Reception & waiting lounge
 Planted corner work lounge with an upholstered chair beside the window
Planted corner
 Reception desk with a marble waterfall edge
Marble waterfall desk
Waiting lounge in walnut with upholstered seating and warm light
Waiting lounge — walnut & wool
Arrival

Walnut, marble, and low light — the welcome sets the register for the whole floor.

02The Studios
Full-height angular window in a raw studio
Angular glazing
 A studio opening to the Manhattan skyline through angular glazing
Studio & skyline
 Studio doorway in oak, opening to a raw concrete wall and daylight
Oak threshold
Reception corridor framed by a full-height white oak door
Full-height oak hallway
 Corner studio wrapped in angular glass where it meets raw concrete
Corner studio — glass meeting concrete
A furnished creative studio ready for a maker
Furnished & ready
 Furnished studio with an art panel and lounge seating
Art wall & lounge
 Furnished studio with a daybed set against the skyline
Daybed & skyline
03Textures & Finishes
Oak-slat wall with brass fixtures
Oak slats & brass
 Close detail of terrazzo cast and polished on site
Terrazzo, cast on site
 Gender-neutral restroom with lit round mirrors on glazed tile
Lit mirrors on glazed tile
Brass keyless lever and RFID lock on a white oak door
Brass keyless hardware
 Hand-blown glass globe pendants hung against a triangulated oak millwork wall
Glass pendants & oak millwork
 Two recessed disc sconces glowing warm against a soft plaster wall
Recessed disc sconces
Studio corridor lined with oak doors, cove lighting reflecting off a polished concrete floor
Studio corridor
 Macro detail of custom terrazzo aggregate cast and polished on site
Terrazzo, up close
Hardware & Finishes

Down to the lever, the sconce, and the flecks in the terrazzo — specified, sourced, and set by one team.

Waiting lounge finished in midnight blue
Waiting lounge — midnight blue
The Detail

Every threshold, tile, and edge resolved by the same hands that built the walls.

Who We Build For

For owners who know the difference — and expect it.

Nearly all of our work arrives by introduction — a former client, or someone who has seen what we made for a person they trust. It is the only referral that matters, and the standard we protect.

Whatever the brief, the arrangement is the same: one team accountable for design and construction, candid timelines, and a result that still reads as considered ten years on.

Businesses & Property Owners

Commercial, hospitality, and retail — realised end to end.

Opening a space, repositioning a building, or fitting out for a tenant of consequence — we carry it from feasibility through permits to the final detail.

Private Clients

Renovations, additions, and singular homes.

The same team and standard as our commercial work — with the discretion, communication, and care a home deserves.

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A finished PRYM interior — studio corridor at NYSF Sunset Yards
Founder

Twenty-five years. Entirely by referral.

Joseph Woolridge founded PRYM in 2000 — a Brooklyn-born artist trained at the Cooper Union who learned to build by building. In the decades since, he has delivered commercial buildouts, private residences, retail flagships, and full conversions across New York.

One conviction runs through all of it: a space should work harder — and read better — than the one it replaced. It is the same eye whether the project is a warehouse conversion, a retail flagship, or a family house.

PRYM has grown almost entirely by word of mouth, one satisfied client introducing the next. It is, quietly, the firm's proudest measure.

2000
Founded
25
Years in Practice
By Referral
Nearly Every Project
Enquiries

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Tell us a little about it below. We take on a limited number of projects each year and review every enquiry personally; where it's a fit, we'll be in touch to arrange a conversation.

Email
info@prymbuilders.com
Phone
718.504.9988
Office
By appointment only
341 39th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

We review every enquiry personally and reply to those we're able to take on.

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