Why does Craigslist have 2 sections for Long Island? (New York, Portland: home, subdivisions)
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This is the equivilance of having manhattan.craigslist.org as well as newyorkcity.craigslist.org/mnh. Both are the exact same geographical area ...
While the NYC Borough of Manhattan is coterminous with the New York State County of New York, it is not coterminous with New York City, representing only one of the 5 boroughs of New York City (as well as only one of the 5 counties, each separately coterminous with each of the 5 boroughs).
In any event- I've planned on taking this a step further as part of an Op-Ed article for Newsday about Long Island's confusing political geography being Information Age-Unfriendly.
There are 2 cities and 13 towns (as well as 2 Indian reservations) in the bi-counties and the 13 towns (3 in Nassau and 10 in Suffolk) are further sub-divided into 96 villages (municipal corporations) and 195 hamlets (unincorporated areas), yielding 293 communities (2 + 96 + 195 = 293).
While the NYC Borough of Manhattan is coterminous with the New York State County of New York, it is not coterminous with New York City, representing only one of the 5 boroughs of New York City (as well as only one of the 5 counties, each separately coterminous with each of the 5 boroughs).
To quote me, once again- both the exact same geographic area.
This legal information is highly useful to policital entities- however for a classifieds listings site...
Manhattan the Island.
Manhattan the Borough.
New York County.
Are all physically the same exact location. There should be ONE craigslist covering this physical geographical space- as there should be ONE covering Long Island, not TWO.
I'm sure Walter, if you were running craiglist you would have taken care of a problem like this long ago. Whoever is asleep at the wheel though has allowed for over 4 years this overlap- justifying a difference in geographical location of Long Island, the NYC Suburb, and Long Island- an undefined region within New York State.
To quote me, once again- both the exact same geographic area.
This legal information is highly useful to policital entities- however for a classifieds listings site...
Manhattan the Island.
Manhattan the Borough.
New York County.
Are all physically the same exact location.
While Manhattan the Borough and New York County are coterminous, Manhattan the Island is not coterminous with either, as it does not include several small islands in the East River and the Marble Hill neighborhood that appears to be in the Bronx, but is part of the Borough of Manhattan/the County of New York.
Too many people and institutions naively confuse places that have a "New York, NY" mailing address with New York City, blithely unaware that the majority of places in New York City have other than a "New York, NY" mailing address:
The U.S. Postal Service has divided the City of New York into 7+ postal cities: New York (covers Manhattan and the Bronx), Staten Island, Brooklyn (covers most of Brooklyn and parts of northwest and southwest Queens), Long Island City (most of the original Town of Newtown in Queens), Flushing (includes all of the original Town of Flushing and parts of the Town of Newtown in Queens and also part of what was Town of Bushwick in Brooklyn), Jamaica (most of the original Town of Jamaica in Queens and a small area in what was the East New York section of the Town of New Lots in Brooklyn) and Far Rockaway (in Queens). (Additionally, a few small areas in the Bronx are serviced by post offices located in Westchester County and hence have "Westchester" mailing addresses, such as "Yonkers, NY", "Pelham Manor, NY", etc.)
I only found this out recently, when I placed a for sale ad myself...and then I couldn't find my own ad. Somehow I figured out there were two...and there it was. Weird.
Does newyork.craiglist.org>lgi cover Suffolk and Nassau the same as longisland.craigslist.org? Asking because of CL limitations in placing an ad.
Yes, both cover the exact same area, that is what is so annoying about it...
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