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    FLATBUSH DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2020 12 comments

    Writing this on July 27, 2020 on yet another 93-degree day, I looked back in the archives to December 2015 (which was a good 13 degrees above normal, but at…

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    IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH, Williamsbridge

    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2020 3 comments

    Angry clouds set off the Church of the Immaculate Conception, East Gun Hill Road and Holland Avenue. The church was founded in 1902, with the original building on Briggs Avenue…

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    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, Jamaica

    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2018 5 comments

    The First Presbyterian Church complex, including the parsonage, at 89-60 164th Street just north of Jamaica Avenue is another in Jamaica’s collection of very old church buildings that includes First Reformed (1859;…

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    ST. JAMES CHURCH, Fordham

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2018 2 comments

    You would not expect to find an English country church smack in the middle of bustling “boogiedown” Bronx under an elevated train, but here’s one in Fordham, at Jerome Avenue…

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    ST. MARY’S CHURCH, Manhattanville

    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2018 3 comments

    The Episcopal St. Mary’s Church, West 126th Street between Old Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue,  is in many ways the heart of Manhattanville. It was first organized in 1823 as a branch church of…

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    OLD BRIDGE STREET CHURCH, MetroTech

    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh May 17, 2017 3 comments

    The Wunsch Student Center Building in Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center, at the former corner of Myrtle Avenue and Bridge Street, was formerly the Brooklyn African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, located in this…

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    ST. MARK’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh October 13, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh October 13, 2015 12 comments

    The “City of Churches” has lost more of its more distinctive steeples as the former St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street, dedicated in 1892, is…

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    SOUTH BUSHWICK REFORMED CHURCH, Bushwick

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2014 1 comment

    The steeple is teetering and in need of a paint job but the South Bushwick Reformed Church, a “wedding cake white,” Ionic-columned church, built in 1853 and known as The White…

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    ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, City Hall Plaza

    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh June 6, 2013 5 comments

    St. Andrew’s Church was consecrated on Duane Street and Cardinal Hayes Place, formerly City Hall Place, in 1939, replacing an earlier church named Carroll Hall built in 1842. Just before…

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    St. KEVIN’S and the Tudors of Auburndale

    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh May 18, 2011 0 comment

    Caoimhghin, since Anglicized to Kevin (the name means “handsome by birth”) was an Irish monk who lived, according to tradition, for 120 years, from 498-618, in what is now County Wicklow. According…

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    ST. GEORGE STEEPLE blown down by tornado

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2010
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2010 3 comments

    In the evening of September 16, 2010, a large storm front swept through the general NYC area with high winds and heavy rain and the storm was strong enough to produce two…

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    OPEN SESAME: Open House New York 2007 Part 1

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2007 0 comment

    Now that it doesn’t cool off in October anymore in NYC (on October 8th, 2007, it’s 81 degrees as I write this at 10:14 PM) you have to look for other…

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