“According to you Rav Moshe’s 12 by 12 is a standalone idea of his Manhattan Teshuva. [I think you are very mistaken on that. That teshuva is very interconnected. Again, I don’t know if you realize what I think you are missing here, or just ignoring it again and again. But it doesn’t really matter. See the next point.] ”
No I am not missing anything, you simply do not understand. 12 mil by 12 mil is the chiddush of the Manhattan teshuvah, because Rav Moshe originally thought that shishim ribo was conditional of the street. Of course it was important to Brooklyn as well. This was the area that Rav Moshe classified as a city. Rav Moshe reckoned the 12 mil by 12 mil area of Brooklyn, as the area from which the shishim ribo should be tallied. This is what he himself said that he needed to change his chiddush, since in Europe they did make eruvin in towns that contained shishiom ribo. Hence, Rav Moshe formulated his chiddush of three million.
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