City Hall Park In background corner of Broadway and Chambers Street with Cass Gilbert's Broadway Chambers Building (on extreme left) and A T Stewart's Marble Palace. Old family photo circa early 1920s of Elizabeth Stasa and Frances Stasa, my mother, who came to Downtown Manhattan as children from Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic ). They worked as seamstresses in sweat shops around Union Square. Photo probably taken on a Sunday either before or after going to St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street as at that time they were living in the South Street Seaport area either Dover St. or Peck Slip. Formerly they lived at 109 Washington Street and 66 Greenwich Street when they first came from Europe. By 1927 the family had moved to Brooklyn.

Old family photo circa early 1920s.
Elizabeth Stasa and Frances Stasa, my mother, probably on a Sunday before or after going to St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street as at that time the family was living in the South Street Seaport area either Dover St. or Peck Slip. Formerly they lived at 109 Washington Street and 66 Greenwich Street when they first came as chidren with their family from Moravia in Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic ) in 1912. By 1927 they were living in Brooklyn. My aunt and mother were seamstresses working in sweat shops near Union Square.