OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL, Yorkville

Forgotten New York -

On the unholiest day of the year, I’m featuring a church, Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church, constructed on 230 East 90th between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in 1892. When built, Jacob Ruppert’s brewery was across the street, and brewery workers, many of them German, were among the church’s first congregants; Germany had, [...]

Forgotten New York -

from Forgotten New York http://ift.tt/1yKYJgi