10. St. James Triangle .04 Acres

St. James Triangle celebrates the Catholic portion of New York City’s religious history, named after the St. James Roman Catholic Church formed on the Lower East Side in 1836. The parish was known for its care of the poor and ill, tending to quarantined cholera patients, a disease which took the lives of several priests. St. James Triangle is located next to the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Cemetery, and replaced a parking garage and tenement house. Bernard Baruch, who advised President Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, donated the money for this park.