#138: St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery is one of Manhattan's most interesting and mysterious links to early New York history. This East Village church was built in 1799 atop the location of the original chapel of Peter Stuyvesant, New Amsterdam's peg-legged director-general. His descendants -- with the help of Alexander Hamilton and the architect of City Hall -- built this new chapel with the intention of serving the local farming community of Bowery Village. But in many ways, the more thrilling tales occur among the honeycomb of burial vaults underneath the church, the final resting place of vice presidents, mayors, and even Peter himself. St. Mark's reflected the changes that swept through Greenwich Village during the 20th century, with experimental and sometimes scandalous church activities, from hypnotism, modern dance and even a trippy foray into psychedelic Christian rock. ALSO: Find out why you can never EVER go down into the vault of the Peter Stuyvesant. And why is the church IN the Bowery, not ON the Bowery? www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 138, St. Marks, in the Bowry.
0:04.4	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys!
0:06.1	Hey!
0:08.2	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by urochipo.com.
0:11.9	Urochipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
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0:21.5	Hello there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:24.4	And this is Tom Myers.
0:25.6	We have a unusual episode for you today.
0:28.7	And I'm not even sure how to frame it.
0:30.8	Why is it unusual, Greg?
0:32.6	Well, we have a standard topic here that branches through all of New York history from the beginnings of New Amsterdam till today.
0:40.3	That would be St. Marks Church in the Bowry.
0:43.1	But it's more than just this church, which is an amazing building, which you're going to hear all about.
0:49.0	However, we have a little bit of a call to action with this particular show.
0:53.3	If you're listening to this show in May of 2012,
0:57.2	we are working with the Partners in Preservation Initiative,
1:00.5	which is basically a program where American Express in partnership with the National Trust of Historic Preservation
1:07.0	will be awarding grant money to historic places throughout New York.
1:11.3	There are 40 nominees for this.
1:13.5	You can go to our website, Bowry Boys Podcast, for more information on how to vote.
1:18.1	But one of the nominees is today's topic, St. Marks Church on the Bowry.
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