CURRENTLY: The site of the 1863 Fulton Street ferry slip is now part of a ferry complex, East River Park and is overshadowed by the elevated FDR Drive. The site of Johnson’s death is not precisely known.
COMMEMORATED? No.

Samuel Johnson (colored).  On Tuesday night Johnson was attacked near Fulton Ferry by a gang who mercilessly beat and left him for dead.

A proposition was made to throw him in the river, but for some reason the murderers took fright and fled. He was taken by some citizens to his home and died the next day.