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Red Hook Parish Fusion Tells Italian Catholic History
The two historic parishes Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and St. Stephen's merged in 1941 due to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, ending a century of Italian community life in Red Hook. St. Stephen's, designed by Patrick C. Keely and finished in 1875, preserves statues and relics moved from the demolished Sacred Hearts church.
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St. Stephen
Brooklyn Queens
Keely
City
Brooklyn
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Long Island
Queens
Nassau
Suffolk
St. Peter’s Church
Warren and
Hicks Streets
Pasquale Disnisco
United States
Red Hook
President and
van Brunt Streets
Mother Cabrini
van Brunt Street
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Sacred Hearts
St. Stephen's Church
Degraw and
Hicks Street
Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Carroll Gardens
The
Brooklyn Public Library