ABSTRACT
In March 1971, a series of mysterious announcements began to appear in newspapers throughout the Northeastern United States. The first pictured the Statue of Liberty with a tear running down her cheek under the headline “Announcing the Beginning of the End of New York City.” The next week, the same image appeared, now with the headline “On May 24, 1971, New York City Will Disappear.” And, as an article in the Daily News revealed, come May 24 the third and final installment was to be published with the headline “Today, New York City Disappears” above an image of Miss Liberty sinking into the ocean, with “the water up to her eyeballs like something out of ‘Planet of the Apes.’”1
