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Bushwick’s ornate Spanish Baroque-style church, St. Barbara’s, is one of six Brooklyn sites the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to save Tuesday. Click through to see what a reader has to say about the significance of the church in the Bushwick community.

Comment of the Day

I am SO glad that St. Barbara’s made the list. When it was calendared in 1980, this wonderful gem was almost completely surrounded by vacant lots and abandoned buildings. Attendance was dwindling and there were rumors that the diocese would shut the building — the same fate that was imposed upon nearby St. Leonard’s. But the parish held out and, with the major development of housing that subsequently occurred in Bushwick’s central core, the community came back to life and the parish is now thriving. The exterior and interior renovations that have also occurred here have greatly enhanced the beauty of this glorious church. Although, with or without landmarks designation, St. Barbara’s preservation seems pretty secure, at least for the foreseeable future, designation is still welcome both as an added insurance policy and, more importantly, a symbol of the Bushwick community’s survival from a truly dreadful period.

— johndereszewski1 in Big Surprise: Landmarks Says Yes to Lady Moody House, No to Coney’s Pumping Station

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