New York City and State

[Laurence Horn]

>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.
>
I agree; nobody ever thinks of Brooklyn or Staten Island as "Kings"
or "Richmond" respectively [their county names], except in the
context of courtrooms, lawyers, jurisdictions, etc.

larry