Actually, you confuse me with somebody that really gives a crap about the geographical context up there. IIRC, they stole all that from the Indians, and now the immigrants, posers, users and losers are stealing it from them.
So true.
If the Hudson freezes over it’ll be ‘interesting’. East River is smaller.
Now we know how Washington retreated over NY Harbor to Brooklyn with heavy cannon at the beginning of the Rev War.