DID AN AIRPLANE FLY OVER NEW YORK CITY IN 1876?

According to an article published in a respected New York newspaper in 1876, a local inventor successfully built and flew an aircraft over the city. But - did it really happen?
 
HISTORICAL REFERENCE:
 
Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 30,1876.
 
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Source: Chesterton, G.K., The Everlasting Man, Chapter 1, Part 5A: Man & Mythologies (1925).
 
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