Demolition is underway at Our Lady of Loreto in Brownsville

August 23, 2017

Demolition is underway at Our Lady of Loreto in Brownsville
By Lore Croghan
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Photo by Lore Croghan

Brownsville Brooklyn LPC

Workers have started demolishing a historic church in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville that community activists have been fighting to save.
Catholic officials are moving forward with plans to demolish Our Lady of Loreto Church, which was declared eligible for listing on the State and National Registers of Historic Places several years ago.
They are doing so despite efforts by the Brownsville Cultural Coalition to have Our Lady of Loreto designated as a city landmark and adaptively reused as a neighborhood cultural center.

Photo by Lore Croghan

Workers have removed a chunk of the triangular-shaped ornamental roof on the front of the building. The Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corp. (POP), which holds a long-term lease on the vacant cast-stone church at 126 Sackman St., is tearing it down in order to build a 40-unit low-income housing facility.

Workers have removed a chunk of the triangular-shaped ornamental roof on the front of the building.