The abandoned Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Mount Hope is raising concerns in the community after being abandoned.<\/p>\n
The church was built in 1920 having over 100 years of history to it.<\/p>\n
After years of decline, it’s now abandoned and riddled with trash.<\/p>\n
Community Activist Sidney Flores visited the church 16 years ago when he says the downfall started.<\/p>\n
“It has nice parts to it but I saw where the walls were cracking,” said Flores.<\/p>\n
There are currently 45 violations issued by the Department of Buildings since 2008 that remain open at this property.<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Finance, the owners of the church owe over $360,000 in taxes and fees. Council member Oswald Feliz says its unacceptable.<\/p>\n
“Garbage, broken windows, graffiti.. this community deserves better than that,” says Feliz.<\/p>\n
As for what’s next, an online real estate platform shows the church is listed for sale and currently under contract.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to the Pilgrim United Church but has not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The abandoned Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Mount Hope is raising concerns in the community after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,21977,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-100604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-church","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}