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