We are seeing this pattern all across the northeast. It only makes sense that so many Catholics have moved down south; hence the boom down there. As ‘Soldiers of Christ’, we will just have to keep on championing the Catholic Church and devoting more time and resources to the remaining parishes. (Would appreciate it if you would keep an eye out for an older baptismal font. Our parish needs one and the local diocese is giving us the runaround. Thanks!)
Don't know if it's a workable solution, but the Boston archdiocese has been cannibalizing some of the closed churches (our lower church got a few small stained glass windows from churches on the North Shore). I don't know who you'd ask either -- and shipping charges might be prohibitive. But it might be worth looking into.
Don’t let those church furnishings just be thrown out, as happened to many lovely and sacred things of some NYC churches that were closed.