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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
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.
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I don't understand the point. City size (or population) have nothing to do with relative metro size.
Are you aware of any major city in existence that is the exact same size as at its founding? NYC is actually odd in that there have been no territorial expansions since the 19th century. Only a few big U.S. cities have had such longstanding fixed limits.
LA had massive 20th century expansions, up until WW2. That's really a more typical U.S. scenario.