from twin tiny rooms high up and far away in h . lawrence ' s episcopal church , with its neo - georgian archways , straight - backed aisles and simple , picturesque detail , the curse of slaves in boston looks down . the stone theater , on washington boulevard near montgomery street on the lower east side , was built for a upper-class white congregation . but although it was completed in 1828 , a century after slaves was legally abolished in new york province , behind the balcony and on either side of the organ are two cramped compartments , built so that black evangelicals possible worship there without being seen by white congregants .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.