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The Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel is a parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 230 East 90th Street, Manhattan, New York City. The parish was established in 1886. [2] The church was completed in 1892 to the designs by Thomas H. Poole. [1] The address listed in 1892 was 236 East 90th Street. [3]
St. Brigid's School. The Rev. Thomas Mooney, pastor of St. Brigid's, founded the school in 1856 in the mostly Irish immigrant section of what was then called the Lower East Side. At first, classes were held in the basement of the church. The school building was built and dedicated in 1858 and was located on 8th Street between Avenues B and C.
The hard work of the Sisters and the pastor shows itself in the fact that Sacred Heart of Jesus School became the largest elementary school on the West Side of Manhattan. While a figure of 3000 students is sometimes found in the literature describing this period of the school's history, no definite proof of this enrollment can be found.
Redeemer Presbyterian Church is a church located in New York City, founded in 1989 by Timothy J. Keller, who retired as pastor in July 2017. The family of Redeemer churches includes Redeemer Downtown, Redeemer West Side, Redeemer East Side, Redeemer Lincoln Square, and Redeemer East Harlem.
The church was instrumental in founding such organizations as the New York Bible Society, the American Bible Society, Princeton Theological Seminary, and various interdenominational mission boards. In 1815, members of the congregation established the first free schools, which later were expanded into the New York Public School System.
The Incarnation School is located at 570 West 175th Street. In 1914, the school which had been built with the church and completed in 1910 was in the charge of two Sisters of Charity of New York and two lay teachers, who oversaw 125 pupils. [2] It was formerly staffed by the De La Salle Christian Brothers. [4]
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This is a list of schools in the American Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.The archdiocese covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond Counties in New York City (coterminous with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, respectively), as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state.