The idea here comes from the “eyed but not seen until it’s noticed” department. I noticed the Brooklyn church on the hill behind Linda Moran only recently. I’ve no doubt I’d seen it many times before, but my glance never lingered there. Now, I am unable to NOT see it. It is the basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, OLPH, for short. Between Linda and OLPH is the Brooklyn Army Terminal, designed by the legendary Cass Gilbert.
This got my wondering about other churches visibly prominently from the sixth boro. Like St. Michael’s in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I know some might find this heretical, but as a newbie in the sixth boro, I considered the possibility that the 200′ egg-tipped spire might be a minaret.
Just forward of Megan McAllister is St. Mary Star of the Sea in Bayonne, as seen from Richmond Terrace, Staten Island.
Just above Ellen McAllister‘s stacks, Our Lady of Mount Carmel is mostly obscured here by the IMTT tanks.
St Peter’s in New Brighton, Staten Island can’t be missed.
Just astern of Kristy Ann Reinauer, St Patrick’s in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has two spires. The single white spire to the right of the courthouse tops First Presbyterian on Broad Street in Elizabeth, a congregation going back to 1664.
From this 2007 foto, it’s Riverside
Church in Manhattan. In the foto above, left to right: Dorothy Elizabeth, Patapsco, Lucy Reinauer, and unknown. Can anyone identify this Moran boat below? Answer below.
And since I’m asking, here’s a church along the Brooklyn side of East River aka Easy River, taken in 2007, I cannot identify. Anyone help?
If you wish to add other church landmarks, let me know.
All fotos here, Will Van Dorp.
Moran boat below Riverside Church is Paul T. Moran, answer thanks to Allen Baker.
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April 19, 2010 at 11:52 am
Allen Baker
That’s the “Paul T. Moran” in the bottom photo.
Greetings from Lake Superior.
April 19, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Mage B
Cass Gilbert changed his style markedly to create these huge buildings. Thanks for the links. I kept on following them.
April 19, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Daniel Meeter
Will, from the East River, I think that’s Greenpoint, right, and so the taller one would be St. Anthony of Padua, of the famous feast, and the smaller dark one to its left is St John’s Lutheran, on Milton.
I thought I knew the tall white spire in Elizabeth (St. Catherine’s) but it looks on the wrong side of the Union County Courthouse for that. I spent several nights in the convent at St. Patrick’s.