St. Emeric Church and School To Become Development Site

And then there were none?

The fate of Catholic churches in the East Village is beginning to sound like an Agatha Christie mystery.  A Hoodline NYC item dated February 24 informs us that a DOB application has been submitted for a 206 foot-tall, 21-story building with about 350 apartments. The Archdiocese of New York sold the site in 2024 for $35 million.  

Read all about it: East Village Church Lot Set to Sprout 21-Story, 350-Unit Tower

The parish of St. Emeric was extinguished and the church became a secondary church in the parish of St. Brigid-St. Emeric in 2013, when the last Mass was held.  It was closed in and relegated to profane but not sordid use on November 4, 2020.  Relegation is the last canonical step before disposition of the property.

Church of Nativity, which had been attended by Dorothy Day was sold for $20 million in 2020 and demolished in 2022.   St. Brigid's and Most Holy Redeemer are still standing.  Most Holy Redeemer was closed on September 1, 2025.  Parishioners are working to save it.