Sawing off of Manhattan Island

Akụkọ mgbe ochie nke Manhattan Island bụ akụkọ New York City chepụtara echepụta.  Ọ na-akọwa na ya bụ ọkwá nkà ụgbọ mmiri ezumike nká a mụrụ na Lozier na 1824. Dị ka akụkọ ahụ si kwuo, na 1820, asịrị malitere ịgbasa n'etiti ndị ahịa nke obodo ahụ na obodo ahụ dị n'ebe ndịda Manhattan Island, nke dị nso na Batrî.  A kwenyere na ebe a na-egbutu àgwàetiti ahụ, na-adọkpụrụ ya, na-atụgharị ya 180 degrees, na-eweghachi ya na ọnọdụ Manhattan ka ọ kwụsie ike, na akụkụ nke agwaetiti ahụ nwere ike ịgbaji.  Nchegbu abụghị na echiche ahụ yiri nke Long Island.  Lozier mechara chịkọta nnukwu ndị ọrụ nkwado nhazi.  Mgbe nchọpụta ahụ gasịrị, Lozier apụtaghị, na akuku Brooklyn alaghachighị ruo ọtụtụ ọnwa.

Akụkọ ahụ apụtaghị n'akwụkwọ akụkọ ọ bụla (ọ bụ ezie na onye nta akụkọ ahụ ekwughị ihe ọ bụla gbasara ihe mere n'oge ahụ) ma ọ dịghị ndekọ ọ bụla a chọtara na-akwado ịdị adị nke ndị metụtara ya.  A na-ekwu na ihe mere na akụkọ mbụ nke wayo bụ aghụghọ, nke bụ okwu sitere na Joel Rose n'akwụkwọ ya, New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical (2001).  [1] Akwụkwọ mbụ nke Thomas F. De Voe's (1811-1892) [2] [3] mpịakọta The Market Book (1862), dị ka nwanne m nwoke na Lozier ibe, bụ akụkụ ọzọ nke Herbert Asbury ọrụ All Around The Town: Murder, Scandal, Riot na Mayhem na Old New York (1934, nke e bipụtara ọzọ dị ka Sequel nke New York).  Akụkọ ọzọ dị mkpirikpi sitere na 1960s Reader's Digest akwụkwọ, Scoundrels na Scallywags: 51 Akụkọ nke Kasị Mma Character of Hoax na Fraud (1968).   (reviewing literature and concluding that original claimed event likely did not occur, and the story of the hoax is a hoax  itself)

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 Mgbasawanye nke Lower Manhattan

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