NWR - True New Yorkers

originally posted by Marc Hanes:
212 or Bust
originally posted by JSchwartze:

"By their area codes ye shall know them".
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If it has to be explained then it can't be explained.
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That sums it up nicely.
Here's the question:
The Empire State Building: Are you looking up at it or across a body of water at it? There you are, or aren't.
 
Born in Manhattan and it was impressed on me at an early age that the other boroughs were not part of the "City". Have lived in CA for many years and really don't care as long as I can visit and don't have to live there.
 
originally posted by JSchwartze:
True Brooklynites...
originally posted by scottreiner:
originally posted by JSchwartze:
Speaking of Outsiders...
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by JSchwartze: Nobody from New York is from New York.
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That's what the outsiders say!
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True New Yorkers' phone numbers don't start off with 718, 914, 516 or, especially, 917 or 646. The first three mean that you go over a bridge or through a tunnel to get to "The City" and the last two mean that you're a new kid in town.

"By their area codes ye shall know them".
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917 simply means that you have a cell phone. and, i'm sure the 5th generation denizens of brooklyn or queens will be very interested to find out that they are not 'true new yorkers'...
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...will proudly tell you that Brooklyn would likely still be an independent city were it not for some probable electoral chicanery in 1894. It is still its own county (aka Kings County), murky though that fact may be. And that county is, wait for it, part of Long Island. The Battle of Long Island was fought in Brooklyn, after all. And if Brooklyn were able to secede from New York City today it would be the 4th largest city in America. Wear that 718 with pride!
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Not 3rd? As meaningless a statistic as city populations are in comparison to metro areas, it seems like Brooklyn follows only LA and Chicago in total population.
 
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
originally posted by JSchwartze:
Not 3rd? As meaningless a statistic as city populations are in comparison to metro areas, it seems like Brooklyn follows only LA and Chicago in total population.
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In the fantasy-statisticland, assuming the other 4 borrows stayed together, they would be still be the most populous city in the US.
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originally posted by JSchwartze:
True New Yorkers' phone numbers don't start off with 718, 914, 516 or, especially, 917 or 646. The first three mean that you go over a bridge or through a tunnel to get to "The City" and the last two mean that you're a new kid in town.
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Snob. The issue is manners, admittedly rare in B&T but not unknown and not to be sniffed at when it occurs.

"Three Boroughs" Jeff
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by JSchwartze:
True New Yorkers' phone numbers don't start off with 718, 914, 516 or, especially, 917 or 646. The first three mean that you go over a bridge or through a tunnel to get to "The City" and the last two mean that you're a new kid in town.
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Snob. The issue is manners, admittedly rare in B&T but not unknown and not to be sniffed at when it occurs.

"Three Boroughs" Jeff
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... is how anybody who's a 732er or an 848er is able to smell any nuance in their wine through the fog of Axe?
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
What galls me is people purporting Kings County and Queens County to belong to Long Island. As if!
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I grew up in Nassau County. I would never, ever, confuse Flushing with Mineola.
 
This bores me to tears. If Queens, Brooklyn, or the Bronx were to fall off into the sea, Manhattan would be a terribly boring place. Where do you think people live? Any talk of "real New Yorkers", is usually perpetrated by zealots that have lived in a single borough their entire lives, or transplants who identify more with NYC than their hometowns.
 
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