St Lucy Parish was founded in 1884 the church was built in 1895 serving the large working class neighborhood that once covered the area now taken up by the Holland Tunnel and it's access areas. The church was closed in 1986.
The church was designed by Jeremiah O'Rourke, a Newark architect who was responsible for at least a dozen other Catholic churches in the state. The tower is quite similar to that of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield, which O'Rourke also designed.
The statue of St.Lucy still stands guard in her niche over the rose window.
The church father say a nightly prayer that the church will just fall down but St.Lucy seems to be a stubborn patron and in spite of all the damage the Archdiocese has dished out it still stands.
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