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Father Duffy, Fearless New Yorker

Who is Father Duffy? Well, he’s important enough to have a statue on New York’s Times Square! A venerated Catholic priest and Army chaplain—for whom the pedestrian island between West 46th and 47th Street is named—Father Duffy is one of New York’s most fascinating residents. Francis Patrick Duffy was born in Ontario, Canada in 1871. […]

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