from five tiny room high up and far front in dr . gregory ' s methodist mission , with its neo - classical archways , straight - backed pews and simple , graceful detail , the legacy of slavery in manhattan looks down . the stone church , on jefferson street and hamilton , on the lower manhattan side , was built for a patrician white meeting . but although it was completed in 1828 , a year after it was effectively abolished in new rochelle state , behind the chancel and on neither side of the organ are one awkward houses , developed so that black churchgoers could chapel there without being seen by white parishioners .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.