Manhattan: Stuyvesant Place - 2nd Avenue

1924; 1940

Manhattan: Stuyvesant Place - 2nd Avenue

(1) Stuyvesant Street, at the N.W. corner of Second Avenue, showing St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, also known as St. Mark's in the Bowery. It was erected in 1795 and is the second oldest church edifice in Manhattan, standing on the site, where once stood the chapel built by Peter Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch Governors whose bones rest beneath its floor. The present edifice was built in 1802. Summer of 1924. (2) The same at a later date. September 21st, 1940 Photographs by, P.L. Sperr,

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection