St. Nicholas Kirche (New York City)
St. Nicholas Kirche is a former Roman Catholic church located at 127 East Second Street between Avenue A and First Avenue in the Alphabet City/East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The church, known in German as Deutsche Römisch-Katholische St. Nicholas Kirche, was the national parish for the local German-speaking population.
Engraving of exterior of the second St. Nicholas Kirche from 1848
The church was founded in 1833 by the Austrian Rev. Johann Stephen Raffeiner
Second Street with the plot where the church used to stand, with the former rectory on the left remaining (2010)
Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names. It is bounded by Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north, and extends roughly from Avenue A to the East River. Some famous landmarks include Tompkins Square Park, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Charlie Parker Residence.
Avenue C was designated Loisaida Avenue in recognition of the neighborhood's Puerto Rican heritage
Preserved salt marsh on Long Island comparable to ecosystem of Alphabet City area before urbanization in the 1820s
Depiction of shipyards in 1848 from across East River
Tompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library on E 10th St.
