Category: Retros-Peoples, Places, Religions

Lost and found department: synagogues of Manhattan

by Tony Carnes | Oct 17, 2024 | Books, East Harlem, Evangelical Protestants, Jews, Jews, Puerto Ricans | 0 |

If you want to give a quirky, intriguing present to people who love urban sleuthing, this is it.

1933 and 2023 – The Recurring Nightmare of Rising Antisemitism

by Alan Shore | Jun 17, 2024 | Democratic good, Jews, Politics, law & faith, Religious discrimination, Retros-Religions | 0 |

The Norwegian Emmaus Road to New York City

by Tony Carnes | May 13, 2024 | Bay Ridge, Biographies, Dyker Heights, Easter, Easter Retro, Evangelical Protestants, Norwegians, Red Hook, Retros - Peoples, Retros-Personalities, Statistics Peoples, Sunset Park, Theology & religious studies | 0 |

Coming to New York City in America was no easy passage in the 19th Century. But sometimes God stamps your passport.

J.C. Penney — A CHRISTMAS BURIAL, THEN HOPELESSNESS

by Tony Carnes | Dec 19, 2023 | Biographies, Bowery retrospecive, Christmas, Evangelical Protestants, Faith-based business, Faith-based social services, Personalities N - Z, Upper East Side | 0 |

He was one of our city’s most storied businessmen. At the time of his death in 1971, the JC Penney stores were pulling in over $18 billion of business. But in 1910, he almost committed suicide.

Searching for the Messiah in New York City

by Journey | Dec 18, 2023 | Evangelical Protestants, Jesus the New Yorker, Jews, Jews, Postsecular City | 0 |

A chrononological sidebar to “Jesus the New York Jew” in series “Jesus the New Yorker”

Xmas Horror! DEC 20, 1903 Bridge to Land of Devils Opens in NYC

by Journey | Dec 20, 2022 | Christmas Retros, Evangelical Protestants, Retro Flashes, Williamsburg retrospective, Williamsburg-Greenpoint | 0 |

Evangelicals in Williamsburg and Greenpoint 1900-1916. Part of series on A Journey through Williamsburg-Greenpoint religions.

The evangelicals in 19th Century Williamsburg and Greenpoint. A Journey Retro

by Tony Carnes | Nov 26, 2022 | African American, Evangelical Protestants, Evangelicals in Williamsburg & Greenpoint, Williamsburg retrospective, Williamsburg-Greenpoint | 0 |

The faith-flavored identity of New York City was decided on the frontiers of social controversy in religious places like the evangelical Protestant churches of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

150th Anniversary of The Bowery Mission

by Tony Carnes | Nov 7, 2022 | Bowery retrospecive, Faith-based social services, Food, Lower East Side East Village | 0 |

The Bowery Mission and its “Cathedral for the Homeless” traces its roots back 150 years.

Timeline of Asian American Religion 499-1699 AD

by Journey | May 23, 2022 | Asian Americans, Retros - Peoples, Timeline Asian American Religion | 0 |

The earliest historical record of Asian Americans probably includes some lascars (sailors) on...

The Chapel. The Great Heart of The Bowery Mission

by Tony Carnes | Nov 24, 2021 | Bowery retrospecive, Faith-based social services, Food, Lower East Side East Village | 8 |

108 years ago, The Bowery Mission opened its “Cathedral for the Homeless”

New Harlem Village & Church

by Tony Carnes | Jan 24, 2021 | African American, Harlem, Harlem Retrospectives, Race & faith | 7 |

The beginnings of church life in Harlem

Harlem and the Dutch debate over slavery in New Amsterdam

by Tony Carnes | Jan 17, 2021 | African American, Africans, Harlem, Harlem Retrospectives, Race & faith | 17 |

The anti-slavery theologians often referred to slavery as “theft of humans” and a violation of the eighth of the Ten Commandments. But the slavocrats gained more elite supporters than did the theologians of freedom.

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