Adjacent to the church is a monastery building erected as a palace for the Kotowski family at the end of the 17th century. wg proj. Tylman of Gameren, then purchased by Maria Kazimiera Sobieska for the purpose of a monastery, expanded and rebuilt in the 18th century. wg proj. Antonia solariego. Eliza Pawłowska studied at the convent school (in years 1852-57)
– later writer known under the name of Orzeszkowa, and Maria Wasiłowska (in years 1855-57) – later poet known under the name of Konopnicka. This fact is commemorated by a plaque erected in 1975 r. During the Warsaw Uprising there was an insurgent hospital and an air-raid shelter in the basement of the monastery complex. During one of the bombings, more than 1000 people (this is commemorated by a plaque inside the church). Church and monastery in the years 1947-52 it was largely reconstructed after the devastation of the war. In the New Town Square there is an Empire well with 2 Then. XIX w., set here in 1958 r.

From the New Town Square we turn left into ul. Freta. It is the former Zakroczym route, leading north-west from old Warsaw., along the Vistula River.

In the building at ul. Freta 16 (the Łyszkiewicz tenement house) she was born 7 November 1867 r. Maria Sklodowska-Curie – two-time winner of the Nobel Prize (w 1903 i 1911 r.), exploration of the two elements radium and polonium. There is a small house in this tenement house, created in 1967 r. biographical museum.

A little further on the left side is the Dominican monastery complex. Church of. st. Jack and the monastery was built between 1603-39 at the own expense of the Warsaw burghers. The church is a baroque building, three-nave, in the basilica layout, with a narrower one, lower, earlier than the whole church built, late gothic chancel. To the left aisle in the years 1691-94 The Kotowski chapel, designed by Tylman van Gameren, was added. Inside, baroque paintings and sculptures from Dominican churches in Żółkiew and Lviv. There are numerous commemorative plaques in the church dedicated to, among others: soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces who fought during World War II, ZWZ and AK, silent and dark, scouts, nurses, leaders of the Underground State, and also to Jan Kiliński – leaders of the Warsaw people during the Kościuszko Uprising. Opposite the church at no. 5 there is a tenement house "Pod Sam-sonem", so called thanks to the reliefs above the portal depicting "Samson fighting a lion" and "Delilah cutting Samson's hair". He lived in this building in the years 1804-07, acting as a Prussian official, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) – german writer, composer and draftsman, one of the leading representatives of European Romanticism (m.in.: composer of the opera "Undine" and author of the short story "The Story of the Nutcracker", musically illustrated by Piotr Tchaikovsky).