Photos from April by Stacie Joy
A developer is in contract to purchase the former St. Brigid School at 185 E. Seventh St., along Tompkins Square Park, for $35 million, according to Crain's New York Business.
Quinlan Development Group signed the contract on Sept. 22. The deal includes the 19,600-square-foot school property, 26,000 square feet of air rights from nearby church properties and a triangular parking lot, according to court filings cited by Crain's.
The Archdiocese of New York submitted the documents to the Manhattan Supreme Court for approval, as required to sell church-owned property.
The proposed sale comes days after the archdiocese announced an $800 million settlement involving approximately 1,300 people who accused clergy members of sexual abuse. The settlement, covering parishes in Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island, and seven surrounding counties, is expected to finalize in early November.
The archdiocese has been selling properties to help fund the settlement, although the court filings do not specifically identify the St. Brigid proceeds as settlement funding.
Marketing materials via the Avison Young listing for the school site, which went live in April, show the potential for an 11-story residential building overlooking Tompkins Square Park. The property could accommodate approximately 71,100 square feet of market-rate housing or 94,300 square feet with an affordable housing component.
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:
An aerial view from Avison Young shows the corner and surrounding parts of the East Village and Tompkins Square Park...
The historic St. Brigid Church on Avenue B at Eighth Street, along with its adjacent rectory, is not part of the sale.
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 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.
15 comments:
As they are clearly in the real estate business, the church should be forced to PAY TAXES on the sale of that and ALL of its properties bought, owned and sold, especially at the peak of the market.
bad bad news and very very sad...
This bullshit of selling air rights should be made illegal.
'As they are clearly in the real estate business, the church should be forced to PAY TAXES on the sale of that and ALL of its properties bought, owned and sold'
Church has to pay the lawyers and victims $800 million.
'The Archdiocese of New York agreed to an $800 million settlement to resolve approximately 1,300 lawsuits filed by survivors of clergy sexual abuse.'
how is this construction legal?? how does this comply with zoning?
Short answer: it isn't and doesn't.
Oi Wei. Bad news
Neither for God, nor for the Country.
Just tax free cash to pay off immoral deeds of the past.
And what is in it for the future?
NYC Catholic church real estate holdings est- $5 to $7 Billion. When they sell one of their shits it goes into a much larger portfolio of stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments, that is, actively manage trusts.
Same size as Christadora, no? Housing is good, people!
Well, this is gonna cast a mighty ominous shadow over the park. It appears that the EV is fast developing into a midtown morass of shadow and blandness; with many more such structures in progress and on the drawing board.
Exactly - and there should be a cap on this so-called air rights to 6 or 7 stories to be in line with the rest of the surround community
With a Landmark Commission that is useless and an administration whose mantra is "Build baby build" everywhere and anywhere this is the future of the EV.
Condo math doesn’t pencil out and this developer has a portfolio of rentals in Brooklyn neighborhoods. Prepare for big rental building.
This is the gift of Carlina and Adams' City of Yes. The gift to the real estate industry that contributes to their election campaigns....that keeps on giving. And since we have Harvey as our supposed leader... this is just another building... and they're piling up now... to destroy the EV.
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