St. Emeric Church

740 East 13th Street | also 733 East 12th Street | East Village | built 1953

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

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1949
St. Emeric parish is founded to serve the new Jacob Riis Houses
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York established St. Emeric parish in 1949 to serve the population expected from the nearby Jacob Riis Houses and Stuyvesant Town developments. Rev. V. J. Brosman oversaw the new parish's early development on Avenue D.
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1950
Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith complete a modernist brick church
The firm designed the church as a spare brick box in the Modernist style, built for about $300,000 with its cornerstone laid the same year. A two-story school building followed in 1952 from the same architects, at a cost of $240,000. Over the following decades the church's brick walls became covered in ivy.
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2013
St. Emeric closes and merges into St. Brigid-St. Emeric parish
When the restoration of St. Brigid's Church on Avenue B was completed in 2013, the Archdiocese closed St. Emeric and merged its congregation with St. Brigid's to form the combined parish of St. Brigid-St. Emeric.
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2024
The Archdiocese sells the church for a 500-unit housing redevelopment
The Archdiocese of New York sold the former St. Emeric property in 2024, clearing the way for demolition and a planned affordable housing project of about 500 units on the site. The sale ended 75 years of Catholic worship at the Avenue D address.
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