On 57th St. between 6th & 7th Aves., dedicated in 1931, it's a skyscraper church with a crusader castle bell tower. According to the References section at Wikipedia, it was the base of a radio broadcast empire, where "pentecostal delerium" reigned at times inside the church while its pastor Joseph W. Kemp called modern dancing -- where a man places his right hand on a woman's waist, and holds her right hand with his left -- a "shameless exhibition [that] violates the soundest hygienic laws."
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Meanwhile, a 90 floor condo-hotel with two penthouses priced at $98.5 million each is going up down the block. Isn't it wonderful we live in a world where even that amount will be chump change to someone? You can see just the yellow construction crane above, and the hulk itself rising below left.
It's bad enough that it will obscure some of that odd building between it and the church, featured here, but I'm really going to be upset if its construction wrecks the Alwyn Court, at its feet on 58th St., and featured here.
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