EXQUISITE CITY / HYBRID SPACES IN EVERYDAY LIFE
CHURCH / RESTAURANT Located at 50th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan, St. Bartholomew’s Church stands as an odd and unlikely neighbor to the high-rise glass and steel office towers surrounding it.  While this landmark neo-Byzantine building looks out of place, the church has had to get creative over the past couple of decades to stay afloat due to depleting funds.  In the early 1990s, St. Barts was in the middle of a  much publicized Supreme Court case in which the church argued it had the right to replace the adjacent community house and open terrace with a fifty-nine story office building to help support the struggling parish even though the building was a designated landmark.  The church lost the case, so it opened this cafe/restaurant in its vacant community house instead to assist in bringing in revenue.

CHURCH / RESTAURANT

Located at 50th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan, St. Bartholomew’s Church stands as an odd and unlikely neighbor to the high-rise glass and steel office towers surrounding it.  While this landmark neo-Byzantine building looks out of place, the church has had to get creative over the past couple of decades to stay afloat due to depleting funds.  In the early 1990s, St. Barts was in the middle of a  much publicized Supreme Court case in which the church argued it had the right to replace the adjacent community house and open terrace with a fifty-nine story office building to help support the struggling parish even though the building was a designated landmark.  The church lost the case, so it opened this cafe/restaurant in its vacant community house instead to assist in bringing in revenue.

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