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The proposed walk will revisit the key role played by the King’s Bridge in the Continental Army’s evacuation of Manhattan Island in October 1776. Washington and the Army came close to extinction on several occasions in Brooklyn and Manhattan in 1776, the last of which involved the King’s Bridge as the only robust crossing to the mainland in the current Bronx.

The walk will begin at Henry Hudson Park in the Spuyten Duyvil section of the Bronx to discuss American fortifications built in and around the park to protect the King’s Bridge. It will proceed to the site of the King’s Bridge on West 230th Street, stopping to note the course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek that once separated Manhattan from the mainland. It will conclude at West 230th Street and Broadway. The events of 1776 in Manhattan and the Bronx will be discussed throughout.