On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:00:06AM EDT, Max Hyre wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > About 20 miles East of the city. > > Well, more like zero (Queens and Brooklyn are part of both the city > and the Island, unless you're talking like the locals, to whom The City > is Manhattan, and the rest is referred to by borough name) to 120 miles > east. There's a reason they call it _Long_ Island. :-)
I was more thinking of where I'm at.. Western Suffolk .. On the other hand Queens & Kings -- aka Brooklyn, belong to that five boroughs entity .. and from and administrative standpoint Long Island is limited to Nassay & Suffolk. So although the _Island_ itself is less than a mile east of Manhattan, what's usually regarded as long Island starts .. what .. maybe ten miles further east..? > > I guess you were referring to a New York City accent like in the old > > gangster movies? Like Jimmy Cagney, maybe? > > It ain't just the old movies--- I said old because those black and white movies spoke a very different brand of English than the ones they began making in the 70's with all those eye-talian types .. > that accent is alive and well and living in Queens. How Queens and > Brooklyn accents can be so different (they're adjacent on the Island) > is beyond me. I think one difference is that Brooklyn was an independent city for many years before becoming part of the five boroughs and so it had its own identity, town hall .. etc. quite separate from NYC .. whereas Queens was only just a collection of suburbs from the start. Don't know if this has anything to do with Brooklyn-ese being so different, though. > -- > Best wishes, > > Max Hyre (from New Haven, Connecticut, where The City > is indeed Manhattan) Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
