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We've got two small cities stuck to gether here on the coast of Oregon. It's sometimes called the Bay area. There was slogan which said" You're going to love it here." Now I've seen where they are calling it the adventure coast.
I guess it just keeps changing.
Where do you guys get this stuff from? This is simply not true and this is like the 3rd time I've seen somebody from Minnesota make this claim. Wisconsin has more water area than Minnesota and less than Florida, so how can Minnesota have more water area than Florida, California, and Hawaii combined?
Land and Water Area of States, 2000 — Infoplease.com Top 10 by Water Area
1. Alaska (91,316.00)
2. Michigan (39,912.28)
3. Florida (11,827.77)
4. Wisconsin (11,187.72)
5. Louisiana (8,277.85)
6. California (7,736.23)
7. New York (7,342.22)
8. Minnesota (7,328.79)
9. Texas (6,783.70)
10. North Carolina (5,107.63)
New York City: (As a whole)
New York, NY The City So Nice They Named It Twice
Gotham (my favorite one)
The Big Apple
The City That Never Sleeps
The Capital Of The World
Empire City
Brooklyn:
The Borough Of Churches
The Borough Of Trees
BK
Staten Island:
The Forgotten Borough (nickname doesn't really hold as much weight anymore)
The Borough of Parks
The Bronx:
The X
The BX
Boogie Down (or The Boogie Down)
Manhattan:
The City
Queens:
The Crescent Borough (It extends North, East, and South of Brooklyn in a crescent shape)
Q-Borough
Queens is heavily "neighborhood" focused unlike the rest of the boroughs so it has few nicknames for just Queens.
Newark: (Only like 5 miles west of Manhattan and 2 miles northwest of Staten Island)
Brick City
Newarkilly
Long Island:
The Island
Strong Island
Jersey City:
The Sixth Borough
Chilltown
Jungle City
Wall Street West
Paterson:
Silk City
Hackensack:
A City In Motion
Hoboken:
The Mile Square City
Birthplace of Frank Sinatra
Birthplace of Baseball
Fort Lee:
The Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry
Atlantic City:
A.C.
America's Playground
Yonkers:
The Terrace City
Junkers
Yonk-a-tonk
Also here's a thread dedicated to more NYC neighborhood and street nicknames:
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