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Oh, holy site!
Bishop hosts reopening of W’burg church
By Maya Harrison
Brooklyn Paper
It’s a resurrection!
Hundreds of Brooklynites
filled the pews of a nearly
150-year-old historic Williamsburg
Catholic Church
on March 24 to celebrate
Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas
DiMarzio officially rededicating
the house of worship
after a year-long, muchneeded
renovation, according
to the leader of the Diocese
of Brooklyn.
“This is very exciting because
this is a church that
probably should’ve been
closed because it was in such
bad repair. So it’s a great joy
to see a church being put back
into service that can be very
functional,” DiMarzio said
Photo by Stefano Giovannini
Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio rededicated and
consecrated the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Roman Catholic Church in Williamsburg.
of the Annunciation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, located
on N. Fifth Street.
Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello,
the pastor of Our Lady
of Mount Carmel, located just
down the road from the Annunciation
of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, will now serve as
the chief faith leader of both
parishes — according to
Bishop DiMarzio, who appointed
the monsignor to
his new post.
The highlights of the renovation
include a new marble
altar, a reconstructed ceiling
and the return of a 100-yearold
pipe organ that was originally
brought to the Church
in 1930.
The mass, which celebrated
the merger of the two houses
of worship — which went into
effect nearly six months ago
— consisted of Bishop Di-
Marzio sprinkling the congregation
with holy water, a
reminder of the church’s baptism,
followed by an anointing
of the new altar.
ON THE RADIO
Honoring a trailblazing doctor
By Moses Jefferson
Brooklyn Paper
Let’s hear it for the girls!
Brooklyn Paper Radio this
week took a page from its sister
podcast Power Women,
dedicating its latest episode
to those females whose contributions
to Kings County
truly made it the city’s better
borough.
Co-hosts Anthony Rotunno
and Johnny Kunen
recognized the culmination
of another Women’s History
Month by inviting Brooklyn
Historical Society curator
Erin Wuebker on the show
to fill them in on an upcoming
exhibition she is putting
together for the cultural center,
which will showcase the life
and legacy of a little-known
local doctor who blazed the
trail for future female physicians
when she started practicing
in the County of Kings
in the 19th century.
Susan Smith McKinney
Steward — who lived in a
neighborhood locals then
called Weeksville, and now
call Crown Heights — upended
Women on Wall Street
Brooklyn Paper
The weekly Power
Women podcast has featured
Judge Judy, Pat Di-
Mango of “Hot Bench,”
Julie Menin, and other
women who have achieved
success.
This week, host Victoria
Schneps-Yunis interviews
Seema Hingorani — the
founder and chief investment
officer of SevenStep
Capital, and the founder and
chairwoman of Girls Who
Invest, a do-good organization
dedicated to increasing
the number of women
in portfolio management
and leadership positions
within the asset-management
convention by becoming
New York State’s first
black female doctor, and the
country’s third, according to
Wubker, who said history has
often failed to give the pioneering
industry — on an allnew
episode.
During the podcast,
Hingorani — an honoree
at Schneps Media’s upcoming
“WOW: Women of Wall
Street” event — discusses
her parents’ unique immigrant
story, growing up in a
high-achieving family, and
how she helps women get
involved in investing.
Hingorani also talks
about starting Girls Who
Invest, which she formed
after noticing a dearth of
women within investment
companies.
Full episodes are available
at SchnepsBroadcasting.
com.
physician the recognition
she deserves.
The 1847-born Steward
treated borough women and
children, a focus Wuebker
said was largely due to societal
conventions of her time.
Her career will be featured as
part of the curator’s forthcoming
“Taking Care of Brooklyn”
exhibition at the Historical
Society in May.
But the show didn’t exclusively
spotlight ladies — the
hosts also welcomed a gent
poised to make his own mark
on Kings County as the incoming
editor-in-chief of Brooklyn
Paper, and Schneps Media’s
other local newspapers.
Zach Gewelb, who previously
ran our sister
TimesLedger newspapers in
Queens, this week took the
reins atop our company’s
Brooklyn editorial operation,
succeeding Rotunno.
To learn more about the Paper’s
future, and the borough’s
medical past, you’ll have to
tune in to the show — which
will, of course, go on under
Gewelb, but may take a week
or two to return to the airwaves
as he settles in.
Brooklyn Paper Radio
can be found on BrooklynPaper.
com, iTunes , and
Stitcher .
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