Gotham City

Valeu pela pesquisa Cristiano! :)

Mesmo assim achei a explicação do cara meia boca:

Yes, Gotham was, in fact -- still is -- a real little town in England near Sherwood Forest. But in the Middle Ages, it was the proverbial village of fools. And Washington Irving, who was writing this kind of brat pack series of essays in the early 1800's, picked up the name and applied it to New York, probably with sarcastic reference. But I think New Yorkers seized on it because one of the stories that was told about medieval Gotham was that it was a place of wise fools who knew enough to con people by pretending to be foolish. And I think that, like the $24 thing [diz a falsa lenda que a Ilha de Manhattan foi comprada por US$24] , appealed to New Yorkers' sense of themselves as, you know, fast talkers, con artists, deal makers. We love selling the Brooklyn Bridge to any rube who comes to town. It's somewhere near the core of our genetic cultural material.

A NYC do final do século XIX devia ser algo fantástico! Todos aqueles navios ancorados nos portos em torno da ilha, a cidade sendo redesenhada, charretes e máquinas a vapor. Bem Steampunk :) Aproveitando a leva, para os fans de quadrinhos a série do tio de preto Alan Moore, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1898

posted by Hiro at 23:28
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