by Amy Plitt

It looks like the fight to preserve a Brooklyn church has come to an end: The New York Times reports that Our Lady of Loreto, a turn-of-the-20th-century Catholic church in Brownsville, will be demolished, per plans on file with the Departmant of Buildings. That move makes way for low-income housing to eventually rise on the site.

But, as the Times notes, this is merely the latest chapter in "a series of clashes and compromises" between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and a group of activists who hoped to save the aging structure. The church was built in 1908, and according to Save Our Lady of Loreto, the group that has worked to preserve the building, it's not only a testament to the history of Italian-Americans in Brooklyn, but also to the history of Brownsville itself.

Read more

Source: http://ny.curbed.com/