Clintons Folly
The birth of modern NYC
If you’d stood on a muddy New York street in 1783 and confidently predicted that this scruffy, post‑war port would become the greatest city in the world, people would have laughed in your face.
They would have been right to.
New York, at that point, was a mess. Loyalist baggage. A small population. Overshadowed by places like Philadelphia and Boston. If y…
