Country United States Completed 1939 Opened 1939 | Denomination Roman Catholic Parish St. Gabriel Phone +1 718-548-4470 | |
Location 3250 Arlington Ave
The Bronx (Riverdale), New York City Website www.stgabrielsinthebronx.org Address 3250 Arlington Ave, Bronx, NY 10463, USA Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Similar St Pius V's Church, Visitation of the Blessed, Our Lady of the Nativity of Our Ble, Church of St Simon Stock, St Francis Xavier's Church | ||
St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church is a parish located in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York. The parish was created in 1939 by Francis Spellman, then the Archbishop of New York, as the successor to the St. Gabriel’s Church on East 37th Street in Manhattan, which was razed in 1937 to accommodate the construction of the Queens-Midtown tunnel. The pews, altars and statues of the original church were relocated to the new structure, and many of the church’s Irish-American congregants also moved to the Bronx to be near their parish. The Right Reverend Francis W. Walsh, pastor of the Church of the Assumption in Peekskill, New York, and president of the College of New Rochelle, was named pastor – a post he held until his retirement in 1969.
The St. Gabriel's complex encompasses a church, elementary school and rectory. In 2004, St. Gabriel’s was at the center of a zoning debate when a real estate developer unsuccessfully attempted to pay $7.2 million to build a new church and rectory and to renovate the church's school in exchange for the sale of air rights to build a 30-story condominium on the site of the rectory.