St. Marys on Grand Street dates back to 1833.-bu. the parish it served for 140 years Is all but gone now. The tenements around the church were finally torn down to make way for new buildings. The first tenements were the most efficient way known of crowding immigrants into small spaces for high profit. Even the new tenement law of 1901 which eliminated many bad building practices did not help much. But we know better ways of squashing people now. And so in the Seward Park urban renewal area. near St. Marys. already the site of large coops. the last rows of tenements finally are coming down.
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