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I know the boroughs and I've never lived in NYC... but I think it goes both ways. People from NYC know shockingly little about geography outside of NYC.
Nonsense we know all the geography that matters in the world today.
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As a new yorker,as a born and raised, new yorker..... I believe that its certain things you SHOULD KNOW. I dont see how a new yorker would think that yonkers was in the bronx. Now come on now u gotta draw a line somwhere.
Another fascinating book about the city is the WPA Guide to New York City, originally published in 1939 for the first World's Fair, but more recently available in a reprint edition. It's like walking into a time capsule!
Not it is not too much information -- I appreciate the history lesson.
However, do the current "counties" have any governmental functions in the five boroughs?
As far as I can tell there is no actual county government apparatus in the boroughs, like there is elsewhere in NYS, or am I wrong?
each county in NYC (new york, bronx, kings, queens, richmond) has its own separate criminal, civil and supreme court.
they also have their own borough hall
new york county = borough of manhattan
bronx county = borough of bronx
queens county = borough of queens
kings county = borough brooklyn
richmond county = borough of staten island
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I know the boroughs and I've never lived in NYC... but I think it goes both ways. People from NYC know shockingly little about geography outside of NYC.
Right. Honestly, why would it be shocking that anyone who does not live in or has ever visited NYC does not know much about the boroughs? This is not a big deal. I didn't know anything about the boroughs prior to moving here... and now I'm living in one of them. I don't know much about the neighborhoods or geography of Los Angeles either, and don't expect to unless I move there - yikes
Philadelphia is the same as Philadelphia County, New Orleans is the same as Orleans Parish, San Francisco is the same as San Francisco County, and most of Duval County is Jacksonville. Those are the only other examples I can think of where the entire county encompasses only one city or borough.
Denver also.
Boston shares Suffolk County, Mass. with three other towns (Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop) but Boston is over 80% of the county's population and land area.
hahaha yup thats correct. When i read the post above yours i thought the same thing that u just wrote. There is a part of manhattan near riverdale in the bronx, that is almost part of the bronx but is manhattan and is on the mainland. I bet that guy who put down the first bet doesnt know this.
But it used to be connected to Manhattan island and not to the mainland before they rerouted the river.
Not true. There are those of us who take pride in our country. People do travel around and pay attention to surroundings instead of being oblivious. As a result, some of us know shockingly more than you would think about geography of the entire USA.
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I know the boroughs and I've never lived in NYC... but I think it goes both ways. People from NYC know shockingly little about geography outside of NYC.
Hey Fred314X, great info....keep it coming, you've kept me occupied for the last hour or so reading through this thread!
The war between Brooklyn/Queens not wanting to be called Long Island, and residents of all four counties not realizing that they are, in fact, eternally connected via land mass is a fairly new one. In the early part of the 20th century and prior, it was more common to refer to the whole entire thing by it's correct name first, instead of by political boundaries. I believe the divide was caused not only by the consolidation of NYC, but perhaps moreso by the usage of the phrase "out on Long Island" as residential areas sprung up much further east than they had previously existed. IE: "Where do you live?" .... "Oh, out on Long Island" as opposed to the more familiar "In Queens" or "In Brooklyn".
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