{"id":223,"date":"2006-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/denzel-buys-into-methodist-chu.html"},"modified":"2006-03-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T12:00:00","slug":"denzel-buys-into-methodist-chu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/denzel-buys-into-methodist-chu.html","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Buys into Methodist Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, not the<\/span> Methodist Church, but the “Inside Man” star is said to have bought<\/a> an apartment in a<\/span> historic Methodist church near Washington Square Park in Manhattan\u2019s Greenwich Village. A realty company is converting it into a luxury condiminium project called the Novare<\/a>. I\u2019m assuming it was not the developer\u2019s classy tagline for the place\u2014\u201cCome to Be Reborn\u201d\u2014but the 23 foot ceilings that attracted Denzel.<\/p>\n

Even a jaded Gothamite wouldn\u2019t be stripped of his Balducci\u2019s shopping card for finding the conversion of a house of worship into exclusive condos a little tacky. New York Episcopalians still shudder when they pass the former Church of the Holy Communion<\/a> at Sixth Avenue and West 20th Street, which was sold with the understanding the landmark building would be a drug rehabilitation center; shortly after it became the Limelight disco, which was reknowned for being, well, the opposite of a drug rehabilitation center.<\/p>\n

The checkered past of Denzel’s new residence\u2014formally the Washington Park Methodist Church from its founding in 1860 until last year\u2014cranks up the irony further: During the upheavals of the 1960s, the “Peace Church” served as a meeting and performance hall for Vietnam War protesters, folk singers and social action groups, including the Black Panthers.<\/p>\n

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