Marymount Manhattan College Alumni

Professor Mary Brown Leads Greenwich Village Walking Tour

Professor Mary Brown, who is also the archivist at MMC's Thomas J. Shanahan Library, led alumni on an in-depth tour of Greenwich Village. Stops on the tour included Cooper Union and Peter Cooper's statue, McSorley's Ale House, the site of the Papp Theatre, Judson Memorial Church and many more.

In the 1830s, the area around Greenwich Village was developed as attached single-family houses for wealthy people creating what is really a row of homes behind a unified façade of columns.

Mary Brown explains the importance of Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesellschaft to Janice Fodero and Jennie Greene '05.

Teresa Curmi '03, Pat Suppa '58, Phyllis Gwatkin '67, Connie Stanionis Miller '65, Philip Ross and Janice Fodero

This 1885 building is a reminder that St. Mark's Place was once a heavily German neighborhood.

Louise Ross '83 is blessed by a sister from Saint George's Ukrainian Catholic Church.

John McSorley opened McSorley's Ale House in 1853 and passed it to heirs and relatives; it has been the inspiration for many Greenwich Village works of art.

Saint George's Ukrainian Catholic Church

On Easter Saturday at Saint George's, parishioners bring Easter baskets to be blessed by the priest.

NYU students celebrate their Korean heritage in Washington Square Park.

Mary Brown describes the Greenwich House as a "settlement" to Phyllis Gwatkin '67, Janice Fodero, Peter Connolley, Louise Ross '83, Eileen Connolley '65 and Teresa Curmi '03.

The Barrow Street Ale House was once a stable that housed horses for rent.

(Right) Peggy Fung '03

Alumni Relations Coordinator Shelli Luchs '06 and Teresa Curmi '03

Eileen Connolley '65 and her husband, Peter

Archivist Mary Brown and Natalie Manzella '02

Louise Ross '83 and her husband, Philip

Cooper Union is the oldest surviving steel-frame building in the United States.

The building that once housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens cast this statue of Peter Cooper, architect Stanford White designed the base, and the whole was installed in 1897.

Music publisher Carl Fischer erected this building in 1926 as his company's headquarters, from which it served a lively entertainment industry in Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side.

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