I love this church. I lived next door to it and went to daily mass there at 8:30 every weekday morning. It kept me sane while I was going through emotional terror with a suicidal child. Please keep this church open.
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Pat Reilly
3 years ago
I grew up on 83rd…this is a church central to Catholics
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Rhoden Streeter
3 years ago
Louisvile
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Gloriana Roig
4 years ago
Please, please , Keep this church open.
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Margaret Bavosa
4 years ago
This is the church where I was baptized, and I am hopeful that you are successful in keeping it open!
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Anonymous
4 years ago
Please reopen this church.
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cathleen varley
5 years ago
Islip
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Andrea Salazar
5 years ago
The celebration of weekly mass is of most importance for our catholic community.
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Josephine reed
5 years ago
The deaf community needs the spiritual solace of this church.
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Patricia Sherrod
5 years ago
Why would the Cardinal want to close a church that offers such a vital support to the community? There must be a better answer!
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Neil Fiertel
5 years ago
History cannot be closed arbitrarily. I think the closure needs to be reconsidered as the children of the first people to came together are erased by such closures. History and culture and belief are tied together inextricably.
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Karen Kozora
5 years ago
True faith built this church. It must not be permitted to fade, especially for the deaf community that calls it home.
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Nicholas Meusburger
6 years ago
The Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary is a Yorkville institution
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John F Flaherty
6 years ago
Ridgefield
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Brian Scott Mednick
6 years ago
New York
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barbara oconnell
6 years ago
Toms River
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Elvira Targon
6 years ago
Calverton
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Alexandra Matusinka
6 years ago
New York
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Virginia Hes
6 years ago
Many immigrants from Eastern Europe came to America and settled in Yorkville from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia - including my parents from Hungary. To close this House of God takes away the long history of St. Elizabeth's when the first Mass celebrated on April 26, 1891 after our grandparents and our parents made many sacrifices to have a 'house of worship.' Please Cardinal Dolan and our Catholic Archdiocese, keep our church open.
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Michael Zullo
6 years ago
St. Elizabeth's was founded by Slovakian immigrants on the Lower East Side. The, the former Second Emmanuel Lutheran Church on East 83rd Street, built in 1892, became the new home for St. Elizabeth's on June 7, 1917. Our parish church has a long ethnic history which our grandparents and parents built with hard labor, sweat & tears to workship the Lord. To close its doors is a slap in the face of all Catholic European immigrants who came to America for a better life, a community and a neighborhood church.
I love this church. I lived next door to it and went to daily mass there at 8:30 every weekday morning. It kept me sane while I was going through emotional terror with a suicidal child. Please keep this church open.
I grew up on 83rd…this is a church central to Catholics
Louisvile
Please, please , Keep this church open.
This is the church where I was baptized, and I am hopeful that you are successful in keeping it open!
Please reopen this church.
Islip
The celebration of weekly mass is of most importance for our catholic community.
The deaf community needs the spiritual solace of this church.
Why would the Cardinal want to close a church that offers such a vital support to the community? There must be a better answer!
History cannot be closed arbitrarily. I think the closure needs to be reconsidered as the children of the first people to came together are erased by such closures. History and culture and belief are tied together inextricably.
True faith built this church. It must not be permitted to fade, especially for the deaf community that calls it home.
The Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary is a Yorkville institution
Ridgefield
New York
Toms River
Calverton
New York
Many immigrants from Eastern Europe came to America and settled in Yorkville from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia - including my parents from Hungary. To close this House of God takes away the long history of St. Elizabeth's when the first Mass celebrated on April 26, 1891 after our grandparents and our parents made many sacrifices to have a 'house of worship.' Please Cardinal Dolan and our Catholic Archdiocese, keep our church open.
St. Elizabeth's was founded by Slovakian immigrants on the Lower East Side. The, the former Second Emmanuel Lutheran Church on East 83rd Street, built in 1892, became the new home for St. Elizabeth's on June 7, 1917. Our parish church has a long ethnic history which our grandparents and parents built with hard labor, sweat & tears to workship the Lord. To close its doors is a slap in the face of all Catholic European immigrants who came to America for a better life, a community and a neighborhood church.