or go to yahoo.com click on "maps" put in the address. when the map comes up, go to "nearby businesses" then click on "community; religion" Type in "catholic church" You'll get a list in order of proximity to your address. Then go to http://www.geocities.com/~agiroux/nychurch.htm#manhattan to see the dates of establishment. At 11:56 AM 04/27/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Probably about 20 or 30 Catholic churches were pretty >close. They were often 4-6 blocks apart in those days when >1000-1500 people were often living on one square block in >NYC and one square block formed an entire Census ED! > >Go to the Archdiocese of NY web site and go through the >addresses. You will see when each parish was formed. Some >of those old churches have now closed, and you can learn >there on that site which existing church is storing the old >records from the closed church. Contact those that >interest you and ask them what their boundaries were in the >old days. > >Another notion is to contact the Archdiocesan Archivist >.... perhaps there are old maps from the 19th century and >early 20th century of parish boundaries that we could >acquire and put up on the Irish-NYC web site for all to >share!!! > >Perhaps the Archivist has TONS of stuff we'd love to have >on the web site!!! > > >--- Snaturequest@aol.com wrote: > > What Catholic church's were located close to E 17th > > street in NYC in 1880 ? > > Thank You > > John Scanlon > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness >http://health.yahoo.com > > >==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== >Please don't flame anyone on the list. If you do, you will be >unsubscribed. If you are flamed, please contact the list admin privately. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237