Seaman's Church Institute Floating Chapel, New York 1844
After 176 years the Seaman’s Church Institute is leaving New York. The organization announced that they will be putting its building at 241 Water Street, near South Street Seaport, up for sale next week. The ministry will shift all operations to its newly renovated center at Port Newark later this month. Last year we posted about the Floating Chapels of the Seamen’s Church Institute.
The once busy piers on the Hudson River are either gone or converted to parks where children and families play. The East River docks are a mix of museum and shopping mall. No ships have called on Manhattan in decades and the Brooklyn piers are largely quiet as well. There are no sailors left in Manhattan so the Church is shifting its operations to focus on where the sailors are.
Seamen’s Institute to Sell Its Building and Leave Manhattan
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