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Originally Posted by Crawford
The City doesn't refer to NYC proper. It refers to Manhattan only.
People in Brooklyn will say "I'm headed to the City" and everyone knows what they're talking about.
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right, in NYC the term gets distilled even further because NYC is so cleanly cleaved into discreet geographical packets by all of the various waterways.
most US city propers are not chopped up within themselves by water like that.