St. Paul’s Chapel, the tour guide explained to the guests in its sun-dappled churchyard on Monday, was built in 1766, making it the oldest building in continuous use in Manhattan. George Washington prayed there. When the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed across the street in 2001, the chapel suffered not even a broken window.
And then the guide, Zev Baranov, relayed the most remarkable thing about St. Paul’s, at least from the point of view of 20 tourists who had just completed a two-hour walking tour of Lower Manhattan on a hot summer’s day.
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