Hey Bruce,
You have a couple of options, one is to fly and ditch the return ticket, airline won't care and for immigration you'll have an exit swipe of your passport when you actually leave.
The other is to fly discount airlines one way. Your timing is good, high season ends after September long weekend and kids are back at school so the prices will be lower, New York and surrounding airports (New Jersey, etc.) have a ton of traffic in general so you should have a lot of options to look through to find the cheapest one. Not sure about flights out of Manchester to the US, but I do know that a Canadian discount airline has plenty of flights from Manchester to Canada (Air Transat) so options should exist to US as well. As for booking far in advance, risk is noted but some to them are more established than others so just pick wisely or wiat until you get closer to the date. Oh, as most standard travel sites don't show discount airlines so you have to dig around a bit to find out the name and go to their actual website.
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