Catholic Church and City Stick It to Fort Greene
Here’s a rumor straight out of The Da Vinci Code…The eight-story pre-war building on the corner of Clermont and Greene has been home to a group of priests for years. According to a tipster who lives nearby, the priests began moving out last week to make room for the building’s new occupants: 155 juvenile delinquents….
Here’s a rumor straight out of The Da Vinci Code…The eight-story pre-war building on the corner of Clermont and Greene has been home to a group of priests for years. According to a tipster who lives nearby, the priests began moving out last week to make room for the building’s new occupants: 155 juvenile delinquents. The Catholic Church reportedly has leased the entire building to the City which obviously feels that Fort Greene is getting too nice. After a neighborhood has spent a couple decades pulling itself up by its heels, why not throw up another roadblock. Anyone have further details?
Update: It appears that the Church is partnering with a non-profit group called ANCHOR to create an urban boarding school, 15 or 20 of whose students will be housed in this building. It’s unclear if the rest of the building will continue to house priests.
This is what living in a city is about, It’s always changing! We like to think of ourselves as a bunch of small towns under one roof but this is not the case. We will just have to see if this home for “so called juvenile delinquents” is any better or worst than John Jay High School in PS. I lived near John Jay for years and it was clear to me that that was a home for juvenile delinquents too.
155 juvenile delinquents? Catholic priests? These wouldn’t be 155 boy juvies by any chance? Why am I not surprised? Bring on that altar wine wine and lock the confessional!
I always thought that building was a nursing home…
I see your point. It raises similar questions to the discussion a few months ago on “valuable” FG waterfront property being “wasted” on projects. Probably shouldn’t go there, though.
Catholic Church and City to Fort Greene: DROP DEAD.
oh lord. too funny.
I’m not saying it isn’t natural to want this somewhere other than in your own backyard, it was just the tone of entitlement. As if FG is special or unique in having caring residents or having improved a lot over the years. No, it just has more rich residents these days than other neighborhoods, so let’s “stick it” to them instead.
guess what, there are 155 juvenile delinquents in every hood. or, if not them, a halfway house for adult ex-cons or for girls juvenile delinquents or an assisted living facility for people with mental illness and some minor criminal record, or something. it IS nyc afterall.
I certainly wouldn’t want 155 juvenile delinquents descending upon my street, especially if I paid more than a million for a brownstone there. Why’s that “really” bad? It’s just human nature.
I think they shouldn’t be in this building, jails are supposed to be out of residential hoods, curch mission ……… or politics???