爱尔兰马铃薯大饥荒和纽约有什么关系？

    马铃薯大饥荒导致爱尔兰百姓饿死，导致100万爱尔兰人移民海外，其中一部分来到美国。

下面是维基百科的介绍   

爱尔兰大饥荒是一场发生于1845年至1852年间的饥荒。在这7年的时间内，英國統治下的爱尔兰人口锐减了将近四分之一；这个数目除了饿死，病死者，也包括了約一百万因灾荒而移居海外的爱尔兰人。

造成饥荒的主要因素是一种称为晚疫病（Phytophthora infestans）的卵菌造成马铃薯腐 烂。马铃薯是当时的爱尔兰人的主要粮食来源，這次災害加上许多社会与经济因素，使得广泛的欠收严重地打击了贫苦农民的生计。灾荒对爱尔兰的社会，文化，人 口有深远的影响，许多历史学家把爱尔兰历史分为饥荒前，后两部分。這次愛爾蘭馬鈴薯飢荒時期其實英國仍從美洲進口大量糧產,其中一部分甚至經過愛爾蘭的港 口轉運,但飢餓的愛爾蘭人卻買不起這些糧食,英國政府提供的協助也十分稀少，最終造成高比例的愛爾蘭人餓死。

The Irish Hunger Memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect, is located on a one-half acre site[1] at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, and is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine that killed up to a million in Ireland between the years 1845 and 1852. The memorial was dedicated on July 16, 2002. It is a uniquely landscaped plot, which utilizes stones, soil, and native vegetation brought in from the western coast of Ireland. The memorial contains stones from all of the different counties of Ireland. The memorial also incorporates an authentic rebuilt Irish cottage of the 19th century.[2]

    The cottage at the memorial is from Carradoogan in the parish of Attymass in County Mayo. The cottage belonged to the Slack family but was deserted in the 1960s. The Slack family donated the cottage to the memorial in "memory of all the Slack family members of previous generations who emigrated to America and fared well there."[2][3]