| Organization name | New York Friends meeting |
| Other names | Rose Street Friends meeting;Hester Street Friends meeting;Esther Street Friends meeting |
| Date founded | 1671 |
| Org type | Local meeting |
| Bio notes | Friends in New York City built a meeting house at Queen Street (Pearl) between 1774-76. Rose Street Meeting house was constructed in 1823 and 1824. The original Preparative Meeting for New York, called Eastern District after 1806 and Southern District from 1824 until 1881, met at Pearl Street until 1824, Rose Street until 1856, then at Hester Street until 1861. A monthly meeting was established for "New Yorke and Gravesend" in 1671 and met quarterly until 1684. The meeting for business was held at Flushing from 1695 until 1742, then at Flushing and Newton (New Town) until 1768, and then alternately at Flushing, Newtown, and New York (City) until 1780. The name was finally changed to New York Monthly meeting in 1795. |
| See also | New York Yearly meeting of Friends, meetrsp, estpm |
| Citations | quakermeetings.com;Quaker Crosscurrents (Barbour) |
Journal of Joshua Evans 1795-1796 (E)
Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff