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St Paddy’s Day 2021 March and “Trump 2024” Flag Drop

 March 17, 2021 – NYC City Hall- 2 pm-Chambers and Bdway
Pro-Trump supporters gathered for a MAGA “St Patrick’s Day Parade” – aka St Paddy’s Day

Fun for all, until an unexplained “fist-fight” broke out.

Things calmed down quickly

And the massive flag was unfurled in the middle of Broadway.

The “Trump 2024” patriots  marched down Broadway to Bowling Green where they stopped in front of the American Indian Museum.

During the marchers were followed by a few harmless hecklers.

This green condom-adorned creature was annoyingly hard to shake.

And one pushy heckler managed to block the flag – briefly. Once again, all was handled, quickly and peacefully.

There were so many police, nothing became unmanageable.

Part 1 video

Part 2 video

Part 3 video

Part 4 video – The pushy heckler blocked the flag march – briefly.

.Part 5 video – Final Destination- Bowling Green and the American Indian Museum.

Flickr Slide Show

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Flashback 2020: The only St Paddy’s Day Parade in NYC this year 2021- to honor the 45th and 47th President went much smoother this time. October 2020 was intense.

.[https://youtu.be/haxAGejoGTA]Freedom News TV

Lastly, as we came to the end of the island, some fun lower Manhattan history.

Exchange Alley (Caught my eye because it’s an unusual covered street/alley)

 

 

.At a width of just 25 feet total, Exchange Alley is the thinnest street in Manhattan that is open to vehicular traffic. It runs one block between Broadway and Trinity Place (above), and appears as a thin crack between #61 Broadway, the former Adams Exchange Building (constructed from 1912-1914, left) and One Exchange Plaza, a brick and glass tower built from 1982-1984. Trinity Place was one of the first streets laid out in Lower Manhattan beyond the city wall and was originally called Lumber Street until it was renamed in 1846.Both Exchange Alley and its eastern continuation, the rather wider Exchange Place, go back all the way to the Dutch era. Most of it was called Tuyn Street and its later English translation, Garden Street, but Exchange Alley, during the era of British occupation, had a somewhat more colorful name: Oyster Pasty Alley.

The American Indian Museum, sits at the south end of Bowling Green/Evacuation Day Park.

Evacuation Day Park 1783 (Bowling Green) sits just south of the Wall Street Bull (aka Charging Bull, Bowling Green Bull)

Throughout the course of New York’s nearly 400-year history, Bowling Green has seen its fair share of historic events. As the city’s oldest public park, it’s been repurposed several times over the years, serving not only as council grounds for Native American tribes, but also as a parade field, a cattle market and an actual bowling green for lawn bowling.

[Pictures and Videos, where indicated, property of VSB-Pamela Hall]

NYC Flag Ceremony Bowling Green/Wall S,70th Anniv. Israel Statehood

On this day, May 14, 2018 at 5 pm Wall Street/Bowling Green, the raising of two flags, the original American 13 star flag and the Israel flag, was done to commemorate 70 years of Statehood.

The Flag Ceremony was hosted by Bnai Zion Foundation and sponsors:New York Board of Rabbis, World Zionist Organization, America-Israel Friendship League, American Zionist Movement, Israel in New York.)

Speakers included, Ibrahim Kurtuluş, a Turkish-American community activist, Arthur Piccolo of the Bowling Green Association and Rabbi Joseph Potasnik of the New York Board of Rabbis.

Herbert Block of the American Zionist Movement, Dr. Esther Serok of the World Zionist Organization, and Ibrahim Kurtulus helped to raise the Israeli flag.

The New JDL – NY was there, too.

And families (amongst the crowd)

Flickr slide show

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Bowling Green Square sign post in the background commemorates “Evacuation Day (1783), November 25,1783, when the last British troops left New York


Evacuation Day
on November 25 marks the day in 1783 when British troops departed from New York City on Manhattan Island, after the end of the American Revolutionary War. After this British Army evacuation, General George Washington triumphantly led the Continental Army from his former headquarters, north of the city, across the Harlem River south down Manhattan through the town to The Battery at the foot of Broadway.[1]

( The fence is the ORIGINAL 1700’s fence.)

The last shot of the war was reportedly fired on this day, as a British gunner fired a cannon at jeering crowds gathered on the shore of Staten Island, as his ship passed through the Narrows at the mouth of New York Harbor. The shot fell well short of the shore.[2]

Bowling Green Park is where Gen. George Washington and his troops waved off the departing British Troops AND dismantled the statue of  King George III.

“On July 9, 1776, after the Declaration of Independence was read to Washington‘s troops at the current site of City Hall, local Sons of Liberty rushed down Broadway to Bowling Green, where they ordered their African slaves to topple the statue of King George III. The fence post finials of cast-iron crowns on the protective fence were sawn off, with the saw marks still visible today.[5] The event is one of the most enduring images in the city’s history. According to folklore, the statue was chopped up and shipped to a Connecticut foundry under the direction of Oliver Wolcott to be made into 42,088 patriot bullets at 20 bullets per pound (2,104.4 pounds). The statue’s head was to have been paraded about town on pike-staffs, but was recovered by Loyalists and sent to England. Eight pieces of the lead statue are preserved in the New-York Historical Society;[7] one in the Museum of the City of New York as well as one in Connecticut [8] (estimated total of 260/270 pounds);[9] “[wiki]

An historical day in Manhattan but not too sure the tourists saw anything to write home about – except- the modern day statues of the Bull and the Fearless little girl.

What a shame.

[Pictures and videos property of pamela Hall]