The Landmarks Preservation Commission is expected to soon decide the fate of a dilapidated Upper West Side church, whose owners plan to file — possibly this week — an appeal to revoke the crumbling building’s 15-year-old landmark designation.

The tiny congregation of West Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street wants to demolish the 135-year-old structure so they can sell it to a developer for a new apartment tower that will include modern space for performing arts use.

An earlier drama involving a once-beloved church that needed a miracle holds a lesson for the current one. My first Manhattan job in the 1970s happened to be at a performing arts center inside another decayed, former Presbyterian house of worship — Christ Church at 344 W. 36th St., which, like We

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