New York City and State

[Peter A. McGraw]

Certainly a personal attestation counts.  My mother's experience, which I
recounted in my original message, was just such an attestation.  All I mean
is that I doubt people in Queens or Brooklyn are thinking "New York County"
but just happen to leave off the "County" when they refer to Manhattan as
"New York."

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:28 PM -0500 Mark Odegard
<markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: "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."
>
> Does a personal attestation count? I have *indeed* heard those of the
> older generation (70s on up), when sitting in Brooklyn, refer to
> something as being 'in New York'.
>
> The Borough of Manhattan and the County of New York are almost co-terminus
> with the island of Manhattan (Marblehead, as previously mentioned, is on
> the mainland of North America, but is part of NY County).
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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu