History on Duffield Street
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What would be the reaction if the City Economic Development Corporation suggested tearing down Fraunces Tavern and Federal Hall and replacing them with a hotel and an underground parking garage to attract tourism and then stated it would add a heritage trail to commemorate where they had been?
In point of fact, the buildings on those sites are not the actual places where, respectively, George Washington said farewell to his troops and was inaugurated as our first president. The tavern is a 1909 reconstruction, and Federal Hall, our first Capitol, which had been New York’s City Hall, was torn down in 1831 and replaced by the current Sub-Treasury Building.
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