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Re: Localities groups for New York City
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 26 Mar 1999 03:03:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, edboxer@aol.com (Ed Jones) writes:
> > Todd, I think you may have broken NYC down too much. You could probably
> > condense Bronx (The Bronx), Kings (which is the borough of Brooklyn but you
> > use the county name), Manhattan Island, Queens and Staten Island (which is
> > Richmond County but you use the burrough name) into Metro NYC.
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> OK, it sounds like it's premature to use the really-specific groups. So
> just use lugnet.loc.us.ny then, and ignore its subgroups.
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> Someday, of course, since NYC is so freakin' huge and it takes so long to
> get from one side to the other by car (ha), they'll all make sense, right?
> :)
Eventually, as long as they don't drive :')
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> > In addition, Suffolk, Yonkers and Nassau are not part of NYC.
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> Hmm, then what are they a part of?
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> Are they at least a part of NYC as much as San Jose is a part of San
> Francisco, or as much as Long Beach is a part of Los Angeles?
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> > Suffolk and
> > Nassau could be combined into Long Island.
> > Yonkers is best left to itself :')
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> Is Long Island part of New York City or a part of New York state?
Long Island is part of NY State. Yonkers is a separate City at the base of NY
State (right up the Hudson).
> --Todd
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> >
> > Anyway, just some thoughts
Boxer
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 | | Re: Localities groups for New York City
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| (...) ^^^...^^^ Whoops, I meant lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny (...) Sure, OK. But isn't all of Long Island (and Yonkers) still part of NYC in the same sense that San Jose is part of San Francisco? They're just satellite cities 1/10 or less the size of the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Localities groups for New York City
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| (...) OK, it sounds like it's premature to use the really-specific groups. So just use lugnet.loc.us.ny then, and ignore its subgroups. Someday, of course, since NYC is so freakin' huge and it takes so long to get from one side to the other by car (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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