On this day 250 years ago, New York City had its own tea party when the ship London arrived at the port. The ship’s captain claimed that he had no tea aboard, but the local Sons of Liberty had learned that the captain was smuggling tea for his own profit. The captain was seized, the ship was searched, and eighteen chests of tea were discovered, opened, and dumped into the Hudson River. The Sons of Liberty then brought the empty tea chests to the city, where they were used to ignite bonfires in the streets.

Source: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/other-tea-parties