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Frequently asked questions

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.

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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This link now does lead somewhere useful. Dhtwiki (talk) 09:50, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Only imperial units in the lists

Shouldn't wikipedia stay to using metric unit, or at least metric AND imperial? Basically rest of the world apart from the US uses the metric system, so having all units in this article in imperial only makes this article inaccessible to people from other countries. 37.2.33.140 (talk) 10:00, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

the readers around the world are smart enough to handle miles. Rjensen (talk) 10:25, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

the readers around the world are also smart enough to read backwards, or translate Shakespearean English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kai robert (talk • contribs) 16:06, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Link leads to error page ("Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt."). Dhtwiki (talk) 18:39, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Question about requested move

I know that sometimes, administrators pose "sanctions" and don't allow a RM for a certain period of time, but I was wondering, would I be allowed to launch a new RM for New York City, after several years of the old RMs? What would you suggest? Thank you!

You want to move to downstate New York cities or where? Rjensen (talk) 00:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Rjensen: I want to launch a request move for New York City → New York. CookieMonster755 ^📞 ^✉ ^✓ 03:26, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

that's trouble and no help to any one. I recommend against. Rjensen (talk) 03:36, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you fully believe that it is trouble, than I will not request a new move, @Rjensen: Thank you, CookieMonster755 ^📞 ^✉ ^✓ 15:27, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'd also give the same advice. The reasons the article is at the current title are sound and correct. oknazevad (talk) 01:05, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Oknazevad: thank you for your advice! Cheers, CookieMonster755 ^📞 ^✉ ^✓ 01:28, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This link seems very useful, as it's information I couldn't find on present NYC site. Dhtwiki (talk) 09:17, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]