Brooklyn: Demolition of Historic Church Makes Some Money
The red brick church was completed in 1856 and closed at the end of 2021 due to "structural problems" and "changing demographics" (= mass apostasy of the faithful after Vatican II). Both the church and the presbytery next to it have been sold for $12 million.
The developer is the Jewish-owned Watermark Capital Group, which has been involved in other church demolition projects.
Ben Braddock wrote on Twitter.com: "The interesting part of my looking into all this is just how tightly intertwined the Catholic Church seems to be with this particular cabal of developers. Many valuable deals just in the last decade. Seems to be a preferential relationship".
St. Lucy-St. Patrick's was located in Fort Greene, a neighbourhood in northwest Brooklyn in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Over the past two decades, the black population has declined from 41.8% to 25.8% in 2017. Fort Greene is now considered a high-income area.
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