Revisit to the Statue of Liberty

Cooper and I left for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from Liberty Park in New Jersey, which is still pretty badly beaten up from Hurricane Sandy and still undergoing renovations...

Revisit to Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City August 30, 2013

This site, obviously on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is a Museum/Monument to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were crowded into tenement buildings during the late 1850's to the 1930's in this part of town.  There were various influxes of Italians, Jews, Chinese, and later Dominicans and Puerto Ricans into this general area, all of them stuffed into small cramped apartments that were later targeted by reformers to improve living conditions. 

Over 7000 families lived in this building during its time as an apartment building! 

While here, I did get the missing bonus stamp I needed for this location- 

Park # 272/401 St Paul's Church NHS Mt Vernon NY August 30, 2013

This was the last stop of our tour today, and by this time we were all dragging a bit! 

We had taken a cab from the Hamilton Grange Site over to the subway at 145th and St Nicholas Ave, and rode up to Yankee Stadium, then took a downtown 4 train one stop to get to an uptown 5 train, then rode it to the last stop on the line-   We then found a gypsy cab to take us the mile or so on up to the site.  7.00. 

This is the site of one of the older churches in the area, dating back to the early 1700's. 

The interior very much reminds me of the Old North Church in Boston, with the high pews and
"plainness" of the interior.  You were here for church, and that was it- although this one did have a nice organ dating back to 1830, that had been installed later. 

This is a view of the church as how it looks today-  It sat on a 5 acre plot, which originally included a "village green", sort of a town hall meeting place without the structures. 

 Here is a postcard from 1907-  not much has changed!

 

We watched a movie about the site, and then did a quick tour, led by a very sharp young docent, who was a rising senior in high school-  She really knew her stuff!  During the tour, NP Trekker made a joke about playing a concert for us on the organ, and the church organist did come and play us a brief few bars of Beethoven's Ode to Joy!  Quite a treat since the organ dated since the 1830's. 

 

Got one of the two stamps that were listed for this location- 

 

 

This was a significant stop for me, I have now completed all the National Park sites for the North Atlantic Region!

Park # 269 Womens Rights NHP Seneca Falls, NY

 

 

This turned out to be a stamp and run pretty much, the tour had already left, and the M'Clintock House portion was closed due to a sewage problem-  also missed getting an Underground RR stamp that wasn't out. 

Park # 268 Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS Buffalo NY

Got here today as my last stop on the Buffalo tour-  I wasn't able to get the house tour in, due to timing-  this park doesn't seem to have a full affiliation with Eastern National they didn't have any of the usual EN things in the gift shop, no "official" pin, no medallion, and they had a lot of crafty stuff for sale. 

This is what the pin looked like- no ID at all.