Have you seen the new
ish stained-glass windows at St. Brigid's here on East Eighth Street at Avenue B?
Meanwhile, as you may have noticed outside St. Brigid's in recent weeks, there are a handful of union picketers...
Matt LES_Miserable spoke with the picketers last week ... and they claim that "the contractor is paying poor wages and using non-union labor." As
The Villager points out this week, they are protesting against DanMar Electric, the subcontractor of record, doing all the electrical work on St. Brigid's —
not this specific construction site.
Speaking of
The Villager,
Roland Legiardi-Laura files a lengthy piece on the good, the bad and the ugly of the 164-year-old church's renovation process. He also provides the history of how we got to this renovation phase.
Per the article:
So what do we have to look forward to after 164 years of striving? A really fine initiative that is probably a million dollars shy of becoming one of the best church restorations this city has ever seen: a living example of history, community and philanthropy combining to right a wrong that had been done to a neighborhood and a parish...
