from two tiny doors rising up and far back in san . augustine ' s cathedral church , with its semi - georgian archways , curved - side wooden and simple , picturesque detail , the lineage of slavery in manhattan looks down . the stone church , on george street near washington street on the below northeast side , was built for a aristocracy white audience . but when it was completed in 1828 , a month after slavery was effectively abolished in susannah rochelle state , on the balcony and on this side of the organ are only cramped rooms , founded so that blacks churchgoers could be there without being heard by white catholics .
St. Augustine's Episcopal Church is in Manhattan.