(03-05-2018 06:40 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 06:24 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(03-04-2018 08:25 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Saying Staten Island is part of NYC is like saying San Fernando Valley is LA. I know enough about NYC to know that, local or not.

I've lived in both and they are both certainly thought of as parts of those cities.

I never said it wasn't. But Staten Island is closer to a suburb or smaller satellite city than part of the true core of NYC. And don't dismiss me as a non-local because everyone knows Manhattan is the heart of NYC and everything else is the outer boroughs, especially Staten Island, which might as well be New Jersey.

You are missing the point, and yet you don't understand that you are supporting the point.

NYC is the heart of the area.. the entire area.. Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, AND NJ all feed into that heart.. that's why it works. it's an island with bridges, and tunnels into it, and 2 tunnels from NJ go right into Manhattan.. it's all the same to us. That's why it works, and you see the Jets, and Giants play in NJ.. go figure, but here we are all one, when you win... NJ local TV news..is NYC TV news. There is only one ABC, NBC, or CBS for the area, and that's why it's a metro area and what others will never understand. Long Island is just as far away as NJ, and feel like New Yorkers one and the same as White Plains and West Chester.. Any team within that area is claimed as their own, IF they win or compete against "outsiders"...