Photos by Stacie Joy
The former St. Brigid School building at 185 E. Seventh St., on the northeast corner of Avenue B, is now being marketed as a development site. (This is just for the former school. The St. Brigid-St. Emeric church and the rectory are not part of the potential sale.)
Per the Avison Young listing, the property owned by the Archdiocese of New York is being pitched as a "premier development opportunity" adjacent to Tompkins Square Park, with the potential for roughly 71,000 square feet of residential use — or more than 94,000 square feet with on-site affordable housing under current zoning and available air rights.
"The East Village has seen minimal ground-up luxury condominium construction in recent years, creating a rare opportunity to capture unmet demand in a supply-constrained market," the listing notes.
The building most recently served as the city's Asylum Seeker Resource Navigation Center and Reticketing Center, which quietly closed in June 2025. For more than two years, the building had assisted with asylum seekers.
Before that, the site housed the St. Brigid School, founded in 1856, for generations.
As previously reported, the Archdiocese of New York announced in early 2019 that the school would close at the end of the academic year — a move that blindsided students, parents and faculty.
No official word on what a future project here might look like, though the listing makes clear what could rise on this corner via this rendering (brace!):
And an aerial view via Avison Young showing the corner and surrounding parts of the East Village and Tompkins Square Park...
Previously on EV Grieve:
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