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New York Sawed In Half An Urban Historical Joel Rose

SKU: BELL-44163382

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

File Extension: PDF

File size: 4.41 MB

Pages: 152

Author: Joel Rose

ISBN: 9781582340982, 1582340986

Language: English

Year: 2001

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New York Sawed In Half An Urban Historical Joel Rose by Joel Rose 9781582340982, 1582340986 instant download after payment.

Chronicles the story of the scheme carried out by John De Voe and a man named Lozier in 1824 to "save" to city of New York from sinking into the harbor, recreating the atmosphere of the time and speculating about the reasons for this hoax.
In 1824, the
inhabitants of New York City were just returning from the wilds of
Greenwich Village after having fled a yellow fever epidemic that
threatened to devastate the population of 150,000. The recent economic
depression forced many of the city's laborers out of work. It was a time
of extreme gullibility, a time when newspapers began to realize that
sensation sold, truth or lies, giving way to a rash of hoaxes.
So
when two men of supposed high reputation began a rumor that Manhattan
was sinking into the harbor because of overdevelopment on its southern
tip, everyone listened closely. The men had been sent, they claimed, to
save Manhattan from inevitable doom. Their idea: to saw New York in
half, drag it out to sea, turn it around and reattach it to the mainland
at Kingsbridge. Far fetched? Not at the time when a river was being
forged through the mountains to create the Erie Canal. The wonders of
engineering made anything possible. And so begins the story of the
greatest hoax ever played on the people of New York City.