Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace

62 Cloister Place | New Dorp | built 1931

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1928
December 24
Our Lady Queen of Peace opens its present church on Christmas Eve
The Roman Catholic parish of Our Lady Queen of Peace in New Dorp was established on October 10, 1922, as part of the Archdiocese of New York. Six years later, on Christmas Eve of 1928, the parish inaugurated the church building it still uses today.
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1980
The church's exterior appears in the movie He Knows You're Alone
The outside of the New Dorp parish church of Our Lady Queen of Peace can be seen in He Knows You're Alone, a movie released in 1980. It was the first of two films in the early 1980s to use the church, which had opened on Christmas Eve of 1928.
“The exterior of the church appears in the 1980 movie He Knows You're Alone.”
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1983
The movie Easy Money films its wedding scene at the church
For the 1983 movie Easy Money, the filmmakers shot the story's wedding at Our Lady Queen of Peace in New Dorp. It was the church's second film appearance in a few years, after He Knows You're Alone showed its exterior in 1980.
“The wedding in the 1983 movie Easy Money was filmed at the church.”
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