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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
A comment to the effect that some place would have to annex like crazy to catch New York was stated. It made it sound like New York is some tight compact area, which it isn't anymore. All I'm saying is New York did just that to get where it is today and help retain its status. What does Staten Island add to the city? It's just a far flung suburb there to help inflate the numbers. It's so bad that few places even routinely use the mailing address of New York outside Manhattan.
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It is not the same. The New York region is the largest concentration of population in the U.S. This was true when NYC consolidated. New York did not consolidate in order to artificially trying to boost its stature.
A stunt would be if Detroit were to merge with it's three surrounding counties in order to create the nation's second largest city.
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