According to the official blog of the Committee to Save the Green Church, Bay Ridge Journal has announced that as the last stained glass window is removed from the church, so too will all links on their blog to the controversial preservationist group.

The latest move signals the likely final chapter in what was, at best, an uncomfortable situation for the congregation and at it’s worst, a shameful excuse for a community preservation effort marred by mud-slinging, quasi-libelous slander and a poor excuse for neighborliness towards the 30 or so remaining congregants of the 109 year old church.

Kip herself acknowledges that whatever window existed to save the Green Church may have closed well before the Committee ever came on the scene, as early as March 2007.

In closing out the Committee to Save the Green Church portion of her blog, Kip will reportedly go on blogging about NYC preservation in general, and offers some final thoughts on what community preservation efforts entail.

In Kip’s own words:

“I think that, in any given New York City neighborhood, doing historic preservation depends upon the existence of a critical mass of knowledgeable, committed property owners with sufficient resources and organization to counter the development lobby. Except on certain blocks, that is not the case in Bay Ridge.

I can only hope that efforts like ours will have provided property owners in Bay Ridge who want to do historic preservation with better tools and information.

The effort to save the church having ended, I have removed the contact information for the Committee from this blog.”

(photo courtesy: Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten-NY)