New York City and State

[Peter A. McGraw]

The transit employee may have been TECHNICALLY correct, but it would take a
lot to convince me that anyone saying simply "New York" in NYC could
possibly mean "New York County."

PMc

--On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:25 PM +0000 "James A. Landau"
<JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 4/10/01 7:32:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU writes:
>
> << The train  emerged from underground and became an elevated before she
> finally   had a  chance to get off (no doubt either in Brooklyn or Queens,
> I'm not sure  which).  She did get off, and asked the first transit
> employee she could  find how to get to X Street (I forget exactly where
> in Manhattan she was  trying to go).  The startled reply: "In NEW YORK?!"
> >>
>
> The transit employee was being obscure but correct.  X Street is in
> _New York County_, whereas Brooklyn is Kings County and Queens is Queens
> County.  At one time New York City and Brooklyn were separate cities but
> eventually merged.  This distinction is cast not in concrete but in
> bronze, on the Statue of Liberty.  The poem "New Colossus" on the Statue
> of Liberty reads (line 8)
> "the air-bridged harbor which twin cities frame."
>



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu