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Washingon Irving lived in Birmingham in England, which was not too far away from Gotham in Nottinghamshore also in the English Midlands, whilst in Birmingham in England, Irving wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The video offers an insight in to the history of Gotham, which comes from the Old English for "goat home" and how NYC ended up taking it's name from a small English village known for strange goings on and acts of madness.
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