{"id":334082,"date":"2026-08-31T19:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334082\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:36:40","slug":"ev-grieve-rally-this-evening-to-preserve-and-reopen-most-holy-redeemer-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334082\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Rally this evening to preserve and reopen Most Holy Redeemer Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgbnoFeeIcPBs4xNeVtfKEdVEoiPqTjEDgrpIQSlJAXE4le25_Ewlyl_iklN5BGJFITnC_3YGb9uQ8NmhveJKOVQ8JHJqumd7n0etQN0SsDCeuJr3ZKi-1jnY8zseeaw1nSx3-OUx1wrmEXTLzo3CI5xrjatfvuecTuNnESSJMTFZF3AgtMMGH3OurvMAQ\/IMG_9567.HEIC\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_9567.HEIC.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Neighbors are coming together this (Monday) evening to <a href=\"https:\/\/villagepreservation.org\/campaign-update\/rally-to-save-east-villages-most-holy-redeemer-church-monday-august-31-at-6-pm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rally and call for the preservation<\/a> and reopening of Most Holy Redeemer Church, 173 E. Third St., between Avenue A and Avenue B.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rally begins at 6 p.m. on the eve of the first anniversary of the church&#8217;s suspension of regular services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say recent moves by the Archdiocese of New York suggest the property may be permanently closed and eventually sold, raising concerns about the future of the 1851 structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, parishioners, neighbors and preservationists have urged the city&#8217;s Landmarks Preservation Commission to consider the church for landmark designation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Church leadership previously cited a shortage of priests and concerns about the building&#8217;s condition as reasons for shifting services to St. Brigid on Avenue B.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Department of Buildings issued a \u201cfailure to maintain\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2026\/01\/most-holy-redeemer-hit-with-dob-failure.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">violation<\/a> after an inspector observed a section of detached plaster ceiling inside the sanctuary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbors are coming together this (Monday) evening to rally and call for the preservation and reopening of Most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-334082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334082","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=334082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}