Stuyvesant's Street Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/22/2009
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Saint Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church was erected in 1660 on the farm of Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, where his family, his neighbors, and their slaves worshipped every Sunday. "Bouwerij" is old NYC Dutch for farm. It is the oldest site of continuous worship in New York City. The listed coordinates will bring you here, this is a puzzle cache, so the cache is somewhere else. Solving the puzzle will enable you to find the cache, which is hidden elsewhere in this Bowery.

The graveyard and vaults were in use between 1670 and 1851. By 1969, the burial ground was a garbage dump and a haven for drug addicts. That year, Reverend J. C. Michael Allen, pastor of Saint Mark's, spearheaded an effort to transform the graveyard into a playground. Allen told the New York Times, "A few people have complained to me about the cemetery project, but I don't think they understand. There are many ways to honor the dead, but for me and the anguished people who are my parishioners, I think the best way to honor them is not to die with them, but to live with them."
Approximately thirty teenagers were hired to help build the new playground. The yard was paved with cobblestones that were laid out in a circular design about the gravestones, crypt entrances, and trees. The West church yard, where these improvements were made, remains available for community events, but closed to the general public, in order to protect the landscaping. The East church yard is open to the general public during the day, and contains the well known graves of Peter Stuyvesant, and Daniel Tompkins. There are various plaques describing the many families buried here and the history of St. Marks Church. We placed the cache near the corner of Judith Street, using Stuyvesant's Grid. We took the "Gray" number from William Coleman's vault added it to the Edward Higgins Family vault number and came up with the last three digits of the Longitude. After studying where the grid starts, we realized that when the city started marking off 25' x 100' lots, the last three digits of the year was the same as the last three digits of the latitude of this cache.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgebat sbeprf ng jbex. Fuvryqrq sebz jrngure.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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