St. Gabriel's Church
3250 Arlington Avenue | Spuyten Duyvil | built 1942
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- 1939
Archbishop Spellman creates St. Gabriel's parish in Riverdale to succeed a razed Manhattan church
Archbishop Francis Spellman created St. Gabriel's parish in Riverdale in 1939 as the successor to St. Gabriel's on East 37th Street in Manhattan, torn down in 1937 for the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. Twenty-eight lots on the south side of West 235th Street, from Arlington to Netherland Avenue, were bought for a church, school and rectory. The old church's pews, altars and statues came along, and many Irish-American parishioners moved north to stay near it.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1969
Francis W. Walsh, pastor of the Riverdale parish since its founding, retires
Francis W. Walsh, who had been pastor of the Church of the Assumption in Peekskill and also led the College of New Rochelle as its president, became pastor of the new St. Gabriel's. He kept the post until he retired in 1969.
“Francis W. Walsh, pastor of the Church of the Assumption in Peekskill, New York, and president of the College of New Rochelle, was named pastor…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
A developer's air-rights deal for a 30-story condo at St. Gabriel's falls through
In 2004 a zoning debate centered on St. Gabriel's. A real estate developer offered $7.2 million to build the parish a new church and rectory and renovate its school, in return for air rights to put up a 30-story condominium where the rectory stood. The plan did not succeed.
“…a real estate developer unsuccessfully attempted to pay $7.2 million to build a new church and rectory and to renovate the church's school…”
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