Stuyvesant St #12 · Apartment for Rent

This is a one bedroom one bathroom apartment with a microwave oven; dishwasher; full size appliances; video intercom; lots of light and French doors. The area is known as the Bowery Village, with transportation nearby at Astor place (#6 trains). The building is located on the intersection of Stuyvesant Street and 10th Street; a true landmark and beautiful location lined with trees across from Saint Marks Church. In 1651, Petrus Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, purchased land for a bowery or farm from the Dutch West India Company and by 1660 built a family chapel at the present day site of St. Marks Church. Stuyvesant died in 1672 and was interred in a vault under the chapel. Stuyvesant's great-grandson, Petrus, sold the chapel property to the Episcopal Church for $1 in 1793, stipulating that a new chapel be erected to serve Bowery Village, the community which had coalesced around the Stuyvesant family chapel. In 1795 the cornerstone of the present day St. Mark's Church was laid, and the fieldstone Georgian style church, built by the architect and mason John McComb Jr., was completed and consecrated on May 9, 1799. Alexander Hamilton provided legal aid in incorporating St. Mark's Church as the first Episcopal parish independent of Trinity Church in the United States. By 1807 the church has as many as 200 worshipers at its summer services, with 70 during the winter. Contact us for showings and building info, thank you and have a good day.