from two tiny apartments highs up and high away in st . augustine ' s episcopal church , with its neo - georgian archways , straight - backed pews and simple , simple detail , the history of slavery in manhattan looks down . the stone church , on henry st near montgomery river on the upper east side , was built for a patrician catholic congregation . but although it was completed in 1828 , a year after slavery was legally outlawed in new guinea state , below the balcony and on either side of the organ are only awkward rooms , built so that all pentecostals could worship there without being noticed by white parishioners .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.