Well, Lookie There, It’s Charles Barron!

Andrew Berman just made life that much more difficult for Donald Trump:

A powerful preservation group is asking Mayor Bloomberg to investigate whether the site of the Trump SoHo condo hotel was a stopover on the Underground Railroad. Currently, excavation is stalled on the site at Spring and Varick streets where developer Donald Trump and his partners want to build a 45-story tower. Last week, the Department of Buildings issued a stop-work order after human remains more than 100 years old were uncovered. Historical accounts indicate the remains are related to a graveyard of Spring Street Presbyterian Church, an activist abolitionist church that stood from 1811 to 1968, according to the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, Andrew Berman. The church was nearly burned down in 1834 because of its antislavery work, Mr. Berman said. His letter to the mayor was copied to several African American leaders, including City Council Member Charles Barron, a Democrat of Brooklyn, and Lieutenant Governorelect David Patterson. Messrs. Barron and Patterson were active in the effort to preserve the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan.