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Originally Posted by Crawford
If NYC "deannexed" to a village of 12, it wouldn't change a thing. It would have the exact same MSA, CSA, and UA populations.
And LIC and Flushing haven't been separate "villages and towns" for 150 years. What does that even mean? Everything outside the original Dutch settlement was at one time a separate "village".
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What it means is that NYC took over a city in its own right (Brooklyn) and a county (Queens) as well as for some odd reason an island that might as well be in New Jersey. Take that away and NYC and LA are similar sizes (take the San Fernando Valley away if you wanna argue that next). There's not the gap between the two as there is with Rio and SP.
And yes, I know NYC's MSA is bigger.