Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1919 — Picturesque Old Church [ARTICLE]

Picturesque Old Church

The church of St.-Marks-in-the-Bow-ery now finds itself in the midst of one of the most picturesque and colorful parts of New York. Second avenue, to which it presents its garden and an angle view of the church, especially agreeable to see as one walks up the avenue, having quickly shed the luster of a once famous residence street, has taken on all the bustle and activity of a foreign boulevard, with / terrace cases and Restaurants, liberally patronized by foreign residents, and where English Is scarcely understood. In summer, when Fifth avenue is deserted, Second avenue alone vies with Broadway in the gayety indicative of a seething metropolis.—Helen W. Henderson, in “A Loiterer in New York.”