Artists Find Accommodating Landlord: A Struggling Brooklyn Parish
THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 6, 2011
NEW YORK--Since 2009, St. Cecilia’s pastor, the Rev. James Krishche, 52, has led the way in bridging old and new by hosting an arts program in buildings that once served as the hub of a booming Irish community but had lately had little reason to turn on their lights. Around 200 parishioners regularly gather on Sunday's for the 10 a.m. Mass at St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Church in Greenpoint, a grand limestone pile a block from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway; but while the pastor is delivering his sermon, there were artists at work in the former school building; an art show in a convent building turned gallery; a photo shoot in the former residence for the Christian Brothers, members of the religious order who, with nuns, staffed the school; and two film crews setting up in the school’s basement. Instead of falling victim to vandalism and decay, St. Cecilia’s buildings have been emerging as a haven for space-starved artists, in a part of Brooklyn that is increasingly young and creative. [link]
March 6, 2011
NEW YORK--Since 2009, St. Cecilia’s pastor, the Rev. James Krishche, 52, has led the way in bridging old and new by hosting an arts program in buildings that once served as the hub of a booming Irish community but had lately had little reason to turn on their lights. Around 200 parishioners regularly gather on Sunday's for the 10 a.m. Mass at St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Church in Greenpoint, a grand limestone pile a block from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway; but while the pastor is delivering his sermon, there were artists at work in the former school building; an art show in a convent building turned gallery; a photo shoot in the former residence for the Christian Brothers, members of the religious order who, with nuns, staffed the school; and two film crews setting up in the school’s basement. Instead of falling victim to vandalism and decay, St. Cecilia’s buildings have been emerging as a haven for space-starved artists, in a part of Brooklyn that is increasingly young and creative. [link]
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