“Neville, that congregation, the oldest in the U.S., used to be Sephardic as it was started by them in the 1600s.”
Yes, we are talking about the same one. Today, it is as I described it. I have no idea when it switched, how gradually, or if it were ever really that Orthodox; I’m not an expert. I just happen to know the current status of it, and that some people who hold of it like to work in the inferiority of Ashkenazim into random conversations.