A Brooklyn man faces a federal arson charge in a blaze that tore through a historic Bushwick church in June, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York. The U.S. attorney’s office said John Jones, 24, intentionally set fire to the 173-year-old South Bushwick Reformed Church on June 19 and caused significant damage. “This defendant placed countless Brooklyn residents at risk when he recklessly set fire to the South Bushwick Reformed Church in broad daylight,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a press release. The Bushwick church was built in 1853 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Historic photo of the Bushwick Reformed Church.