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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."

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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.

New York City is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 6, 2007.

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December 17, 2004	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
December 20, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
February 17, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
April 4, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
July 17, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 18, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
November 28, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 31, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 10, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 18, 2010	Featured article review	Demoted
October 30, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
June 26, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
April 25, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
July 5, 2013	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Former featured article

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The Boroughs :Bronx County and City Parks Pelham Bay Park land mass

I believe Pelham Bay Park's final land area was assessed at 2,772 acres (1,122 ha) in 2013. Source: New York City Dept.of Parks website and Wikipedia page. Thank you for your time.2601:581:8500:949C:304C:CD3D:3958:6A95 (talk) 22:46, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Updated in the article. Castncoot (talk) 21:23, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Update on Pelham Bay Park acreage

Good morning. Go to City parks,first paragraph where it states Pelham Bay Park size.Please change to 2,772 acres(1,122 ha)so it matches up where in The Boroughs section, The Bronx,the park's acreage was just adjusted.Thank you and have a good day.2601:581:8500:949C:304C:CD3D:3958:6A95 (talk) 14:07, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the area for the sake of consistency, but then reverted. I note that the article Pelham Bay Park says that the area is disputed. Attic Salt (talk) 14:22, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated again based on a new source. epicgenius (talk) 20:42, 29 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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