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Tontine Coffee House

... that the Tontine Coffee House (pictured), established in 1793, is recognized as the antecedent to the New York Stock Exchange?
... that 66th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan was once proposed by Donald Trump as the site of a 150-story building that would have been the world's tallest?
... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning in Central Park?
... that the Beaux Arts exterior of the 1907 Surrogate's Courthouse in New York features no fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures?
... that Super Bowl XLVIII has been dubbed the Mass Transit Super Bowl?

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