Old Irish Church falling to the wrecking ball in NYC

Parishioners of St. Brigid's on Avenue B held a vigil today, but not inside their Roman Catholic Church that dates to 1848. Instead they were on the sidewalk, watching with dismay as a wrecking crew assembled scaffolding in a first step to taking the historic church down (see slideshow here). This comes two days after the chopping began at nearby P.S. 64, in another sign of the way a sizzling real estate market is remaking the Village landscape.