# Straight Dope wiki shout out

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**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-wiki-shout-out/954533 "2021-11-17T22:52:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-wiki-shout-out/954533/1 "2021-11-17T22:52:54Z")

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I was reading the history of Manhattan Island on Wikipedia and came across this:

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> [Reagarding the oft quote $24 price] “The Straight Dope newspaper column calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992.”

> **[Manhattan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan)**
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> Manhattan (/mænˈhætən, mən-/ ⓘ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive with New York County of the U.S. state of New York, the smallest county by land area in the contiguous United States. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the State of New York, Manhattan constitutes the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metr...