Mapping Religious Life in New York, Block by Block – NYTimes.com.
Tony Carnes and I met for breakfast at Penelope, a homey little cafe across Lexington Avenue from First Moravian Church. Penelope sits one block north and three avenues east of Marble Collegiate Church, where Norman Vincent Peale preached for 52 years, and it is a 2.8-mile drive from Sons of Moses, the tiny Lower East Side synagogue where you can still hear Lithuanian Yiddish.
This is how Tony Carnes sees New York City. A Texas native, who came to New York as a young man to study at the New School, and who is now “over 50 years old,” Mr. Carnes is in the middle of a two-year effort to find every house of worship in the five boroughs.