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Washington, Hamilton, Adams and other Founding Fathers partied at this bar, still open in NYC
7/5/2026, 12:56 AM - 671 words
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Washington, Hamilton, Adams and other Founding Fathers partied at this bar, still open in NYC
Rob Marciano is now joining us from a bar that's older than America itself.
Okay, it is founded before the Declaration of Independence was even signed at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.
So Rob, is it true that George Washington was a regular there and did you know what he liked to drink?
>> He seems like he used to like to drink just about everything.
Yeah, George was a regular here.
>> regular here. All the son so many of the sons of Liberty were Samuel Adams was here, Aaron Burr and Hamilton actually were at a dinner together about a week before they had their famous duel and this bar, this very bar, this is the oldest bar in all of New York City.
So you can just take a look around it it looks so awesome,
doesn't it?
And people have gathered here obviously for Independence Day.
I met these two gentlemen who were who didn't know each other.
This is Andrew and Matthew and you guys have been having an animated conversation about just about everything.
Why was it important for you to come here tonight?
>> Uh well, my my son is a tugboat uh a cadet from SUNY Maritime. He's firing off the fireworks under the Brooklyn Bridge tonight.
Uh Uh
>> That's great. So under the Brooklyn Bridge you're going to just down the street you're going to see the fire and your son's going to be doing it.
It's fantastic and
Matthew from Bos- Boston now living in New York.
What what does tonight mean for you here in the in the city?
>> I I mean it's honestly like it's 250 years American history.
It was pretty cool seeing like again the fact that I know that this has been a very historical place and the the amount of stuff that came through with like Washington's farewell address, whatever.
I know that there's fireworks coming around as well but it's pretty cool
seeing like a building that's been around for this long and again just getting a good drink.
>> It just sits differently. Like I you know I've been to Rome, I've been to these ancient places but what as an American when you're standing in the same places that our founding fathers were and to and deliberated and and argued and rallied for for the revolution it just sets differently.
All right, so that's the one bar, but this thing has expanded, all right? Upstairs
is where George Washington had a big celebration on evacuation day in 1783.
This is where the party's happening here.
We got people from Boston, Kelly.
We got people from all over the country that have come to celebrate Independence Day 250 here in Fraunces Tavern.
We all We got to come down here at some point, Kelly.
This This is the spot for sure.
>> I was going to say, like, let's let's book it.
I've never been there.
And and you know, I mean, we're we're both in New York City all the time. I love
Matthew from Boston, though, of course, my hometown. Like a fellow Bostonian,
he's like, I just like getting a good drink. I'm like, amen. All right. After
this show is over, definitely.
>> so many great There's so
so many historic spots that you can be Boston, of course, being one of them.
Bunker Hill, the Tea Party, Paul Revere,
right? But it's cool to see somebody
from I think I feel like not the the the British are coming or the redcoats are coming. I feel like the Bostonians are coming a little bit. Well, we love you,
Kelly. And it's a great night to be an American, no doubt about it. We'll talk more from here a little bit later on the broadcast.
>> All right, love you, too, Rob. Really appreciate it. We'll come back to you later.