The History of Broadway Presbyterian Church
 In
the December of 1822, a young pastor proposed to the Presbytery
of New York City that he begin a "Sabbath School" on
the "edge of the wilderness" known today as Greenwich
Village.
Under his leadership, his 10-member church directed their energies
towards reforming the "saloon-sodden neighborhood where
the recalcitrant residents were found reduced by intemperance
to beggary, wretchedness, and death."
In an effort to restrain
the "lustful avarice" of the city's rapidly developing
economy, they launched a "reformation stage coach line" which
hampered the delivery of mail on the Sabbath, and the delivery
of people to bars.
Trace its course through the temperance movement of the 19th
Century, the infusion of women's leadership in the 1960s and
'70s, and the events that led to Broadway's stance on gay and
lesbian ordination.
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