Old St. Peter's Church, Lower Manhattan, New York City

Landmarks of New York

Old St. Peter's Church

Here worships New York State's oldest Roman Catholic Parish, organized in 1785. The first church on this site, built a year later, remained until 1836. The present building, whose Greek Revival design is attributed to Isaiah Rogers, was blessed by Bishop John Hughes in 1838.

Plaque Erected 1962 by the New York Community Trust

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Shirley Clarke, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, and Virgil Thomson at the Hotel Chelsea

Hotel Chelsea

Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Thomas Wolfe at the Hotel Chelsea

Plaques commemorating the playwright Arthur Miller, the poet Dylan Thomas, and the writer Thomas Wolfe, at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City.

Plaques at the Hotel Chelsea

Plaques commemorating the American poet James Schuyler, the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen (who wrote the song "Chelsea Hotel"), and Irish writer Brendan Behan. They're a bit hard to make out, due to scaffolding surrounding the Hotel Chelsea.

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