Police are investigating vandalism at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg after staff discovered damage yesterday . Not only did someone(s) write “f*ck” on a Bible and break a statue of St. Judge , a statue of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus was defaced with… Kiss masks. [ more › ]
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Hate Crime Or Kiss Army: Brooklyn Church Statues Vandalized With "Kiss Masks"
The pastor of a church that has housed Occupy Wall Street protesters is giving them two weeks to leave after a portion of a baptismal font went missing. “It was like pissing on the 99 percent,” the Post quotes Rev. Bob Brashear of West Park Presbyterian Church as sermonizing. Around 60 protesters sleep between the pews every night, and Brashear discovered that the basin and its lid were missing before Sunday services, and demanded that they be returned later that day. Recalling the era of the crack epidemic, Brashear said that the drug addicts the church took in didn’t steal the basin. “Not even the crackheads messed with that.” [ more › ]
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Pastor Of UWS Church Gives OWS 2 Weeks To Leave After Theft
As part of a worldwide candlelight vigil tonight honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. , Riverside Church in Morningside Heights is hosting performances by Patti Smith, Steve Earle, Stephan Said, Kozza Olantunji Babumba, and will include “inspirational words” from Yoko Ono, Russell Simmons, and Norman Siegel. The event, as envisioned by Stephan Said, begins at 7:00 p.m. as the protesters amass outside the church. The performances begin at 8:00 p.m. in the nave. [ more › ]
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Patti Smith To Perform Tonight At OWS Vigil For MLK
Police are seeking a man who called 911 from a Tribeca pay phone last night and confessed to killing his girlfriend. A police source tells the Daily News that the call came in around 6:42 p.m. from a phone at Church and Warren Streets and that initially it was deemed to be from a “suicidal male.” “He said he wanted to hurt himself,” the source says. “Then he confessed to having killed his girlfriend. Then he ran off and left the line open.” Thirty minutes later, a 48-year-old woman was found dead of apparent head trauma inside an apartment on East 174th Street in the Bronx. [ more › ]
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Man Confesses To Killing Girlfriend In 911 Call From Pay Phone
On January 12th, 2011 , we caught our first glimpse of a girl dancing on the Staten Island Ferry. Intrigued, we wanted to know more, and quickly found out the video was just a teaser for what would be a 70-minute music video filmed around New York City, and set to the tune of Girl Talk’s All Day album. Now here we are, almost a year later, to the date, delivering the final chapter of Girl Walk//All Day . [ more › ]
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Video Exclusive: It’s The Girl Walk // All Day Finale (And The Full Movie!)
When it opens in 2014, the Fulton Street Transit Center will connect eleven lines (not counting PATH trains)- more than any other station in the NYC subway system. It’s currently budgeted at $1.4 billion (fun fact: the original budget was $750 million !), but it hasn’t received nearly as much press as the World Trade Center rebuilding going on just a block west, or the Santiago Calatrava-designed PATH station slated to go up on Church Street. [ more › ]
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Special Preview: Inside The Fulton Street Transit Center
A long blue line of an estimated 10,000 police officers lined up in Long Island this morning for the funeral of slain Officer Peter Figoski, who was fatally shot in the line of duty early last Monday. At the St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Babylon, LI, friends, family and officials mourned the 22-year NYPD veteran and father of four. “We will forever remember the memories with our dad and our loving family,” a friend of Figoski’s read on behalf of his daughters . ” Our father would be so honored and so proud by all of this, and is forever in our hearts. It is said when a hero falls an angel rises. Rest in peace Daddy. ” [ more › ]
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10,000 Cops Come Out To Mourn Slain NYPD Officer
Exactly three months ago, a group of protesters converged on a privately-owned, public space in Lower Manhattan to protest economic injustice. At noon today, Occupy Wall Street will again attempt to retake private property, this time from a real estate giant that has been supportive of the movement since the beginning: Trinity Wall Street church. [ more › ]
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Occupy Wall Street May Occupy Trinity Church’s Property Today
Click here to view the full photogallery. Over the years, we’ve found a particular affinity for a certain type of residential conversion, the church-turned-condo. New York City is a metropolis with a time-honored tradition of taking churches, turning them into popular nightclubs, then taking the drug-addled nightclub and making an awkward mall out of it, then finally tearing out the mall and putting in an International House of Pancakes. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the city is also home to churches that have simply been converted into apartments. This one, in a building now known as Novare, has two bedrooms, a glassed-in courtyard, and a modern design that clashes with the few remaining 1860s details. Celebs and models have flocked to the hallowed ground, with Jude Law apparently getting in a spat with some NYU students while renting here. Just be prepare to cough up $2.3M to live like a pious A-lister. Click the image above to view the full photogallery. ↑ For more of the holy feel, this converted Chicago house of god might be just the ticket. The lofty main floor retains the original mezzanine, hardwood floors, and altar. A year ago, this place was asking $749K; now that price is down to $700K without any takers. Maybe the open loft feel isn’t what buyers are looking for in a classic 4,000-square-foot spread. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ Out in Colorado, this cute little chapel, revamped for residential use, runs just $475K. Built in 1923, the 3,500-square-foot house has five beds and three baths squeezed under that peaked roof. The expansion has some decidedly uninspired finishes, but the original section of the house has original details to spare. Click the image above to view the full photogallery. ↑ Not all former churches are so thrifty, as a trip back to Chicago will demonstrate. This 1896 Greek Orthodox church, converted into a 10,100-square-foot mansion, is currently asking $3M. That’s down from a high of $4.2M in 2008, but not low enough to induce a sale. The six-bed, four-bath house doesn’t have much in the way of historic detail, but the interiors do have a very unique look about them. ↑ Not ready to commit to living in a house of god? Good thing they pop up on Craigslist too. This awesome Chicago loft, formerly the auditorium of a church, measures 2,700 square feet and comes with huge original arched windows. The rent, considering the floor area and the 14-foot ceilings, is a quite reasonable $1,675 per month. Of course, you’ll have to wait for it to hit Craigslist again, just keep praying the current tenants want to move out. · $2.3M for the 2BR Loft in a Converted Village Church [Curbed NY] · All Limelight coverage [Curbed NY] · 2558 West Cortez Street [Trulia] · Loft Building with Even Loftier Beginnings [Curbed National] · 7933 Louviers Blvd [Zillow] · 1339 W Webster Ave [Zillow] · 2,700-Square-Foot Loft in Converted Church for $1,675/mo [Curbed Chicago]
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On the Market: Converted Churches Turn Holy Places into Luxe Living Spaces
This just in from Curbed LA: the Vatican has come out and slammed the Crystal Cathedral, a Garden Grove, Calif., tower that was designed by Glass House architect Philip Johnson in the ’70s and recently acquired by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. In fact, a recent California Catholic Daily article entitled “Cement cubes, glass boxes, crazy shapes” discusses how the Italian newspaper La Stampa used Crystal Cathedral as an example of how Church honchos plan to ‘crack down’ on architectural abuses” and “consider this work as ‘very urgent.’” Oh, snap! Hey, it wouldn’t be the holidays without some big-time drama, right? Curbed LA has more. · Vatican Hates Newly-Catholic Crystal Cathedral [Curbed LA] · “Cement cubs, glass boxes, crazy shapes” [California Catholic Daily] · All Philip Johnson coverage [Curbed National]
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Controversies: Vatican Outright Slams Philip Johnson’s Crystal Cathedral