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What a shame. I worked at 71 Broadway for a few years while going to college. I and a few others would, on occassion, it in the cemetary area having a sandwich at lunch. Of course most of the time we sat on the Federal Building steps just a block away at Broad and Wall. The first few rows have signs on them indicating the pew where Wasshington and rest sat. Where I worked at 71 Broadway was the original site of Columbia University. The Church is surrounded by Rector St, Broadway and Trinity Place. Picture is from their site.

George Washington and Jefferson must turn in their graves to see this. It was the Church they attended services at while the Government was in New York. Washington was sworn in at the same Federal Building

Nearby is J.P. Morgan's "private" Episcopal church. St. John the Divine, up close to Columbia, looks like some kind of radical feminist and liberation theology museum these days. It does have a fine chapel of St. Michael the Archangel in honor of the military, police, and firemen I used to like to visit (when I was still an Episcopalian). The best Episcopal church in NYC is St. Thomas on Fifth Avenue. There is an associated boy's church choir school, it has the finest liturgical music and processionals, and is veddy High Church.
Grace Cathedral in SF is now dominated by the homosexuals. Their maze (which I have walked as a pre-Catholic) is New Age.
St. Mark's in Seattle has male and female homosexual clergy now, and a great choir - mostly homosexuals.
I don't know why all the Olde blueblood WASPs of the East Coast remain loyal to the Episcopal Church, in its present degraded state. Somebody ought to bring this up with Bush Sr. and Barbara.