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1. Was Manhattan Island really bought for a very small amount of currency (be it $24, one string of wampum, etc.)?
No. Charles Gehring, Director of the New Netherland Project, explains this myth in a video (skip ahead to 3:03) by the New York State Museum. In it, he says, "This is one of the biggest myths...pure fabrication. It says in the records that it was 60 guilders worth of goods. 60 guilders worth of goods would have been a lot of hard goods that the Indians couldn't produce themselves. You couldn't place a price on the...things that they were unable to make, the things they didn't have the technology for. The $24 figure was attached to the document when it was translated in the 1880s. The translators looked up the rate of exchange at the time and 60 guilders was $24. Nobody has ever even adjusted that for inflation over the years, so you not only have an incorrect rate of exchange, but the whole idea of what 60 guilders would have been worth to the Indians at the time is totally wrong."
Keepin' it real: The greatest deal in history never actually was. 2. Why is New York City classified as having a humid subtropical climate?
According to NOAA's 1981–2010 normals, Central Park in Manhattan has a January daily average temperature of 32.6 °F (0.3 °C) and in July, this figure is 76.5 °F (24.7 °C). This, in combination with its generous annual precipitation of 49.9 inches (1,270 mm) means the city itself falls under the humid subtropical regime of the Köppen climate classification (see this map). Locations in this regime in general do not have winter snow cover that is reliable enough to augment cold air masses; the "subtropical" designator is only part of the climate type's name and does not mean that the city (or the surrounding region) is in the subtropics, nor that winters here are mild. |
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Add the following to "Further reading":
Wallace, Mike (2017), Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, Oxford university Press ISBN 9780195116359. Lgarrisonf (talk) 19:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
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Typo in 9/11 section - change 'hojacked' to 'hijacked' 2A02:C7C:5CD6:F500:7548:466E:F075:A074 (talk) 12:17, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
"New York (city)" or "New York City"?
[edit]@Seasider53 and Castncoot: There were some recent edits at the Queens article regarding the name of "New York City", and it got me wondering if this article should actually be called New York (city), to distinguish it from New York (state). GNIS calls the city "New York", while the city officially calls itself the City of New York. (Sinatra calls it "New York, New York"). Just wondering. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:17, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
- Great question, Magnolia677. This has been revisited multiple times over the years and the consensus always returns to keeping the name "New York City" for the city article. Best, Castncoot (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
Mention under Government: NYC Marriage Index
[edit]Is the first free, public, open, searchable database of the 4,757,588 marriage licenses filed in New York City between 1950-2017.
https://www.nycmarriageindex.com/
69.181.17.113 (talk) 19:53, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
- It is a great resource indeed for genealogical research, but out of scope for this article; Wikipedia is not a directory for tangentially-related links. Complex/Rational 21:37, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
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