It was 225 years ago today that those dastardly Red Coats marched out of Manhattan for the last time, firing shots from ships at jeering Americans on Staten Island while George Washington triumphantly rode through Downtown. Does anyone think that, all these years later, the foreign occupation of Williamsburg is really a covert military operation? Cannons fired from Northside Piers would totally reach City Hall. [City Room]
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