Wearing buttons with a heart and the text “save this landmark,” a crowd on Thursday packed an Upper West Side community board committee meeting seeking to prevent the sale and demolition of the West Park Presbyterian Church.

The church sought to win support from Community Board 7’s Preservation Committee to demolish the landmarked West Park Presbyterian Church, at 165 West 86th Street and Amsterdam Ave.

The more-than-a-century-old building was built in 1890, designated a landmark in 2010, and has housed numerous arts groups from dance to theater to music – as well as being used by another church for services.

The Center at West Park, a theater and arts organization evicted from the church on July 7, is doing a temporary residency at the St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church, a

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