Let me conceded the point about whether it was New York city or some other city in New York, but the larger point I am making still remains. Why is it located in New York instead of Kansas? Why is it any business of New York what transpires in lands over a thousand miles away?
Also, if you've been looking at it, did you see the racist motivation behind it? These were no friends of slaves, they simply wanted black people kept out of the territories.
When you look, you find out over and over again that the primary objection to slavery was an objection to having blacks in their racist white society at all!
This is something they never taught me in history class, and I very much doubt they taught anyone else this either.
You paint with a very broad brush. People who really hated African-Americans were often fine with slavery in the territories and elsewhere. People who opposed slavery in the territories often did so because they had moral objection to slavery.
The Free Soilers did best in Vermont and Massachusetts. If their voters really didn’t like Black people, and that was their primary motivation, all they had to do was to support slavery in the South and turn back runaways, but they didn’t do that.
You damn them for any reason and for no reason. If they were far from the frontier, that’s bad. If they were close to the frontier, that’s bad. My teachers told me that racism was a big factor behind the Free Soil movement, but I’ve come to see that they were exaggerating. It’s part of the “racist America” narrative that you’ve bought into.