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February 28, 2008
Rally to save the 'Green' Church
The Bay Ridge United Methodist Chruch built in 1899 and a community landmark on the National Register of Historic Places is in jeopardy of being demolished for new Condos.
Rally to save the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church.
Date: March 1st, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon
Location: Ovington Avenue & Fourth Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (take 'R' train to Bay Ridge Avenue Stop, walk one block south, you will see the beautiful church)
Save the 'Green' Church, Save the Community.
Comments
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion
Posted by: guest at February 28, 2008 8:46 AM
Perhaps those who wish to save the church could begin attending and supporting it. As an atheist who regularly attends Middle Collegiate Church (hey call me a cultural Christian), I feel a church is more than a building, and it is indeed perverse when people want to preserve a building but attack its purpose.
Posted by: Putnamdenizen at February 28, 2008 9:23 AM
Brooklyn needs more condos.
Knock it down.
Posted by: guest at February 28, 2008 10:32 AM
Why is this chruch 'Green'?
Posted by: guest at February 28, 2008 12:29 PM
Color of Stone - Green Ashlar.
It's affectionately called The Green Church in the community
I will be there on Saturday.
Posted by: guest at February 28, 2008 12:36 PM
I live down the block and go by it every
day. I need not be a congregant to appreciate the unique vision of this building
- this morning the rising sun is both euphoric and mute in the faces of the stained glass and the bulbous shadowed corners of the green ashlar. To walk by this church is to bear witness to a transcendent theatre of light cast on a Brooklyn and very human aspiration.
I myself am a collapsed Catholic and may salivate for a Pavlovian dream that escaped but I tend to think that the earthbound in all of us should be touched by such quiet majesty and its frosted dogwood silhouetted in stone.
Jack
Posted by: guest at February 29, 2008 7:47 AM
If you want condos go to the city, leave something scenic for the middle class of bay ridge
Posted by: guest at May 10, 2008 9:48 PM
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