St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
Fieldstone Georgian church consecrated in 1799 and home to the Poetry Project and Danspace.
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This guide to St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in New York City opens on a summer day in 1978, when a routine repair job on the church turned into something much bigger. It reaches back to Peter Stuyvesant's farm, which gave the Bowery its name, and to why the fieldstone church sits askew to the street grid. Along the way you'll meet the poets who made this church a neighborhood stage in the 1960s. Best heard standing in the churchyard, with the steeple in view.
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