Manhattan is now bridged to the western end of Long Island by the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg bridge and the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Gradually it filled in with farms and, much later, low-income apartment buildings. Once upon a time there were deer, owls, hawks and trees covering the entire island. Bird's eye view: you've got Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island, which hosts both Brooklyn and Queens.The south end of Manhattan is where New York City started. An island just off the coast of Europe, if you want to comment on how different NYC is from the rest of the United States. File this away in the "karmic repurcussions" folder.)The point is, New York City sits on a bunch of islands.
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(They decided that, since "the Indians" had not subdued the land, it was free for the taking. Early pilgrims cited the Bible as their mandate for taking over what lands they found in "the new world".
How do you like that? Legend has it that white settlers bought the island of Manhattan for $26 obviously the contracting party on the other end had no idea what real estate connections were all about. The white people came and the Indians left. And of course Mohawk, which comes into play later around 1977.So, let's keep it sanitized for posterity.
Go out to the small towns in the greater New York or Tri-State area and you'll find even more names like Massapequa, Hammonasset, Ronkonkoma, Montauk, Quinnipiac, etc. White people learned those names and kept them, for example Massachusetts, Connecticut, Manhattan, Chesapeake. Manhattan, you will notice, is not only an island situated between two rivers perfect for easy transportation to the Atlantic Ocean - it's also an Indian word!Like lots of New England states and towns, its lineage comes from the "Indians" who lived there first. Let's take a quick look at what it is before we look at what it looks like in panoramas.New York City sits on the island of Manhattan. Overview and HistoryNew York was invented by time-traveling punks from across the galaxy so they could show up there in 1977, smash some guitars and then overdose on heroin to die in the East Village, according to prophecy.The historic origins of the city go back to long before the American Revolution.
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