On the northeast corner of Broadway, then Court Street, and Hudson, then Spanish Street, stood Albany’s second City Hall, erected in 1705, where the famous Congress of 1754 met and prepared a union of the several colonies for mutual defense and security. The city’s southeast gate stood in front, to the south of the City Hall. On this ground also stood the house where Pieter Schuyler, the first mayor of Albany, lived for eight successive years while serving as mayor.