I think you must be talking about Manhattan, Kansas. However, there is no city in New York named Manhattan. Rather, Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island.
Manhattan is the main borough (where Times Square, Wall Street, Harlem, Broadway, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, etc. are), so many people say "New York City" when they really mean, "the borough of Manhattan." However, technically Manhattan is not a city; it's just part of one.
Manhattan
It is 1,255 miles according to Google Maps.
New York
Prior to Kansas joining the Union, the Kansas Territory was a hotbed of violence and chaos between anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers. Kansas was known as Bleeding Kansas as these forces collided over the issue of slavery in the United States. The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Republican Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune.
George T. Anthony (born June 9, 1824 in Mayfield, New York; died August 5, 1896 in Topeka, Kansas) succeeded Thomas A. Osborn as the seventh Governor of Kansas, serving betwen January 8, 1877 and January 13, 1879, including the whole of 1878.
roughly two hours and nineteen minutes
No, KU means Kansas University and therefor the only bookstore by that name can be found on the campus of the Kansas University and not in New York. They have no further locations.
Kansas City to New York City is 1098 miles (1767 km).
New York is one hour ahead of 95% of Kansas. New York is two hours ahead of the Kansas counties of Sherman, Wallace, Greeley and Hamilton.
Vermont shares its northern border with New York.
Queens.
New Jersey