“And then you finish off your response by saying that Rav Moshe “only referred to his Manhattan teshuvah in regards to his chiddush that shishim ribo is conditional on 12 mil by 12 mil.” What are you doing here? Even if you are correct about everything else, Rav Moshe is still changing that very Chiddush from being about 600,000 people around town within a specific perimeter to the population of it’s residents. This would require a completely different basis that what brought about his chiddush in chelek aleph. So how could reference a teshuvah that does not back up this new novelty that you claim is his his new formula regarding Brooklyn?”
You really have a comprehension issue. As I explained, Rav Moshe did not need to conclude what was the population required to fulfil the criterion of shishim ribo in Manhattan. Manhattan was encompassed by mechitzos and was a reshus hayachid notwithstanding the population included therein. Brooklyn was a different story was not encompassed by mechitzos [according to the way it was relayed to him (he was misled)]. Hence, the criterion of shishim ribo played the part of classifying the borough as a reshus harabbim or not. So no Rav Moshe was not changing anything in Manhattan only how to apply his chiddush in Brooklyn.
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