St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

This guide to St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery follows the ground from Peter Stuyvesant's farm chapel of 1660 through its 1799 consecration as an Episcopal parish chartered with Alexander Hamilton's help. It then turns to the 1960s, when the church opened its doors to the avant-garde and hosted the Poetry Project's readings by Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith, and to the 1978 fire that tore through the sanctuary. Stuyvesant's own vault still sits in the churchyard just outside.