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What if the founders had made the island of Manhattan a federal district separate from New York to be capital of the US rather than the current capital carved out of Virginia and Maryland? New York City was briefly the capital of the US, what if it had remained so?
Challenge - with the POD of your choice find a plausible way to have this occur.
(Bonus points for a modern-day city map of the city of Washington, D.M. )