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Pan from American flag to the Cathedral of St. Patrick2. Tight pull focus of cross a top St. Patrick's3. Mid of Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's UPSOUND: \" The...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eNew York City - 17 November, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan from American flag to the Cathedral of St. Patrick\u003cbr/\u003e2. Tight pull focus of cross a top St. Patrick's\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND: \" The Archbishop's desire (was) to root the new cathedral in its identity as a New York institution, and as an American institution, showing that the Irish, who built it, were looking once again no longer towards Ireland anymore but to New York and the United States\".    \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Building a huge Cathedral as he (Hughes) did was a statement not only to the Catholics, but to everyone else that the Catholics had finally arrived and this house of God was to be a symbol of the fact that they were here in the New World, here in America and were not going to leave.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan of interior of St. Patrick's\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of alter in high alter in St. Patrick's\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And from 1879 to 2011 it has never closed, except at night. But we've been open every single day from 1879 until today.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of high alter \u003cbr/\u003e9. Pan of crypt\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of crypt of entrance\u003cbr/\u003e11. Pan of crypt\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Part of his plan to save money and to make the cathedral affordable, this ceiling is not stone it is made out of wood and plaster. It's a surprise most people don't know that. And above this ceiling there is a roof, which is a typical V shaped roof on top of the cathedral.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of wood roof above Cathedral ceiling\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of dusty wood roof\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of St. Patrick's organ\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan of organ\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Part of the restoration of the Cathedral includes a cleaning of all of the pipes, there are over 9,000 pipes to the organ and part of the restoration to take down each and every pipe, to clean it and to eventually to put it back.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of organ\u003cbr/\u003e19. Tight of organ\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you look at the far right, you see how dark everything is - well that is basically just dirt, it's been here since the last renovation of the cathedral in the early 70s.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid of dust and dirt on cathedral column\u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid of dust and dirt on cathedral column\u003cbr/\u003e23. Pan from stained glass to Ritchie\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you notice this stained glass window it is one of the original ones that was put in in 1878, but this window was dedicated by the architect James Renwick and it is probably the only stained glass window in a Catholic church that was given by someone who wasn't Catholic. \u003cbr/\u003e25. Zoom out of the Lady Chapel\u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of people praying at the Lady Chapel\u003cbr/\u003e27. Tight of candles\u003cbr/\u003e28. Pan of Stained glass windows\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid of windows\u003cbr/\u003e30. mid of windows\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Certainly the stained-glass windows are an item that will be difficult to deal with, there aren't too many people who are expert when dealing with stained glass, especially for glass that is this old.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Zoom of exterior\u003cbr/\u003e33. Mid of pigeon on exterior scaffolding\u003cbr/\u003e34. Pan from scaffolding to St. Patrick's\u003cbr/\u003e35. Tight of chipped exterior stone\u003cbr/\u003e36. Tight of chipped exterior stone\u003cbr/\u003e37. Tight of broken glass\u003cbr/\u003e38. Pan from scaffolding to Cathedral\u003cbr/\u003e39. Tight of Cathedral \u003cbr/\u003e40. SOUNDBITE (English) Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of St. Patrick's:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Some people would be happy to say 'alright close the whole building until everything's done and then we'll open it up again', but that's not even an option for us. It's a place that belongs to people from all over the world and we will keep the Cathedral open. It will have certain parts that may be closed during the restoration, but a huge majority of the Cathedral will be open for everyone.\"\u003cbr/\u003e41. Mid of car on 5th Ave in front of St. Patrick's\u003cbr/\u003e42. Pan from street to exterior of St. Patrick's\u003cbr/\u003eNew York's iconic cathedral is set for major renovation.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Cathedral of Saint Patrick is a mainstay along the New York City tourist trail and a living tribute to the city's Irish Catholic heritage.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Cathedral of Saint Patrick, or St Pats as the locals call it, sits among sky scrapers on New York's famed 5th Avenue.\u003cbr/\u003eWith spires rising 330 feet (100 m) from street level the cathedral is part of the New York city fabric. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 1853, Bishop John Hughes of the Archdiocese of New York set out to create an awe-inspiring structure to show the residents of New York, then mostly Protestants, that the city's Irish immigrants and their Catholic faith were there to stay.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile the Cathedral is now dwarfed by the buildings around it, St. Patrick's used to be the largest structure for blocks. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Building a huge Cathedral as he (Hughes) did was a statement not only to the Catholics, but to everyone else that the Catholics had finally arrived,\" says the Cathedral's rector Father Robert T. Ritchie.\u003cbr/\u003eFather Ritchie was born in New York and has been coming to St. Patrick's since he was a boy. \u003cbr/\u003eHe's been a priest in New York for over 30 years and in 2006 he became the cathedral's rector in charge of its day-to-day operations.\u003cbr/\u003eOver 5 million visitors a year come to St Patrick's, some to pray, others just to admire the Cathedral's gothic architecture.\u003cbr/\u003eOn the surface, St. Patrick's has much to admire, but some of the Cathedral's beauty lies beneath its floor, away from the eyes of visitors.\u003cbr/\u003eBelow the High Alter lies the crypt of St. Patrick's, a marble covered room where all the Archbishops of New York find their final resting place. \u003cbr/\u003eAs visitors wander through St. Patrick's cavernous nave, many admire what looks to be a beautiful stone ceiling, but looks can be deceiving. \u003cbr/\u003eOver decades of construction the cathedral ran up a variety of financial troubles. One of the ways they saved money was to scrap the original plans for a vaulted-stone ceiling and instead to build the ceiling of wood and plaster that would give the appearance of stone but for much less money. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's a surprise most people don't know that. And above this ceiling there is a roof, which is a typical V shaped roof on top of the cathedral,\" says Father Ritchie. \u003cbr/\u003eLike many old buildings, almost everything in St. Patrick's is in constant need of repair.\u003cbr/\u003eThe last major restoration project took place in the 1970s, and early next year the Archdiocese of New York plans to start another major renovation.\u003cbr/\u003eYears of wear and tear have weathered St. Patrick's windows, its stone work, and even its organ. \u003cbr/\u003eSt. Patrick's organ contains over nine-thousand pipes, and there are plans underway to disassemble the organ and clean each pipe individually.\u003cbr/\u003eSeemingly every nook and cranny of St Patrick's interior needs to be cleaned. \u003cbr/\u003eWhat on the surface can look like mere dirt can over time cause corrosion. \u003cbr/\u003eAt the back of St. Patrick's is the quiet and often uncrowded Lady Chapel.\u003cbr/\u003eFlanked by candles, the chapel seems worlds away from the enormity of the main nave.\u003cbr/\u003eA white marble statue of Mary stands at the front of the chapel, but the true beauty of the chapel is its stained-glass windows. \u003cbr/\u003eTen windows, designed by Englishman, Paul Vincent Woodroffe, surround the Chapel's visitors, shining a blue light upon them. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Lady Chapel's stained glass-windows along with the other stained glass at St. Patrick's presents a difficult problem for the upcoming restoration project.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The stained glass windows are an item that will be difficult to deal with, there aren't too many people that are expert in dealing with stained glass, especially for glass that is this old,\" says Father Ritchie.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile St. Patrick's stained glass presents a restoration problem on the Cathedral's inside, it is New York City's acidic rain and pollution that present problems on the outside for the century-old-stone fa�ade.\u003cbr/\u003eThe acidic rain and pollution eat away at the stone over time.\u003cbr/\u003eThe restoration process aims to clean St. Patrick's fa�ade in hopes of preserving it for centuries to come. \u003cbr/\u003eSmall problems have been patched and fixed over the last 30 years, but Father Ritchie says the time has come for a full scale restoration.\u003cbr/\u003eFather Ritchie would not estimate the cost of the restorations and despite the suggestion of some, he says St. Patrick's will remain open during the project. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Some people would be happy to say 'alright close the whole building until everything's done and then we'll open it up again', but that's not even an option for us. 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