{"id":148685,"date":"2026-02-28T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:53:11","slug":"rectory-demolished-as-landmark-push-for-st-benedict-the-moor-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148685\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectory Demolished as Landmark Push for St Benedict the Moor Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than two years after the JMM Charitable Foundation bought the former St Benedict the Moor Church from the Archdiocese of New York for $16 million, the first visible change to the property has arrived \u2014 and it\u2019s not the restoration of the church itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/st-benedict-w53_5294.jpeg\" alt=\"St Benedict on W53rd St\" class=\"wp-image-131811\"\/>St Benedict the Moor church at 342 W53rd Street, with the demolished rectory to the left. Photo: Catie Savage<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this winter, the three-story rectory next door to the church at 342 W53rd Street was demolished.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two years after the JMM Charitable Foundation bought the former St Benedict the Moor Church from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[62356,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-148685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-hells-kitchen-churches","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148685","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=148685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}