Civil War-era convent closes doors after helping generations ‘overcome’

By Verena Dobnik / The Bulletin
February 7, 2009

NEW YORK — Ringed by massive red brick walls, the Convent of Mercy rose during the Civil War. Two decades later, the Brooklyn Bridge opened. And more than four decades passed before the Empire State Building appeared on the Manhattan skyline seen from the windows of the Brooklyn....

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