ABOVE: An article from the New York Post newspaper recounts the hurricane that lashed the city in 1821.
"The Great September Gale" of 1821, also known as the Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane for its track from Virginia to New York, roared up the Garden State and through the Pinelands where it sheared away an entire forest of cedar trees, some of them 300 years old, and destroyed many freshwater lakes. The 200-mph gusts were felt as far away as Philadelphia, said historians who have chronicled the era, and by the time the hurricane’s eye passed over New York, a 13-foot tidal surge pushed the waters of the East and Hudson rivers together, submerging the southern tip of Manhattan as far north as Canal Street.
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