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- ↑ Asbury, Herbert (April 3, 1956). "Sawing Off Of Manhattan". The Gazette . Montreal.
- ↑ Rose, Joel (May 4, 2001). New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 9781582340982.
- ↑ De Voe, Thomas F. De Voe (1862). The Market Book (full text online ed.). pp. 462–64.
- ↑ De Voe, Thomas Farrington. Feeding America . Retrieved October 14, 2010.
- ↑ Scoundrels and Scallawags: 51 Stories of the Most Fascinating Characters of Hoax and Fraud. The Reader's Digest Association. 1968. ASIN B000H35TCY.
- ↑ "I Saw New York". Snopes. February 10, 2006. Retrieved April 30, 2009. (reviewing literature and concluding that original claimed event likely did not occur, and the story of the hoax is a hoax itself)
- ↑ Rose, Joel (2001). New York Sawed in Half: An Urban Historical. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 1-58234-098-6.
