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Almost everyone I know that lives in NYC, or one of its 5 boroughs (including BK & QNS), refers to "Long Island" almost like it's a different state..and vice versa. I actually thought about that for a second when I watched this video of the Brighton Beach, Brooklyn massacre (where a crips member unloaded his gun on a crowd of beach-goers this past week). Supposedly one of the victims in the shooting looked at the Crip the wrong way. WTF man.
Anyway, in the video at 1:40, you can hear one of the people in the crowd say "if this sh*t happened in Long Island, you'd have the SWAT team out here". What's confusing about that remark though, they are different police forces NYPD and NCPD/SCPD.
Everyone supported my point entirely. I have gotten in debates over this and eventually just gave up. I even showed someone a map and said " Look, same land mass. Same island"...
Everyone supported my point entirely. I have gotten in debates over this and eventually just gave up. I even showed someone a map and said " Look, same land mass. Same island"...
When I was a kid growing up in Queens, I could not understand where the bridge to Long Island was when we went out to my relative's house in Lindenhurst.
And why is there no bridge to get to Long Island places like Jones Beach, Green Acres, Roosevelt Field, Belmont Racetrack, Hempstead Lake etc. And why did the LIRR and the Long Island Expressway run through Queens?
So I looked at a map and figured it out myself. And if anyone still questions you after all this, simply ask them what county is LONG ISLAND CITY in!
This thread made me think about something disturbing...
Considering how most people choose to refer to each respective pair of counties on Long Island - Brooklyn & Queens strictly as boroughs of NYC, and Nassau & Suffolk as "Long Island" - wouldn't it be more "grammatically" accurate to say that we live in Long Island rather than on Long Island?
I've always said on, but if "Long Island" in the commonly accepted colloquial sense only refers to it's two easternmost counties, aren't we referring to a region rather than a landmass? I think all the city people and out-of-towners who say in may have been right all along!
This thread made me think about something disturbing...
Considering how most people choose to refer to each respective pair of counties on Long Island - Brooklyn & Queens strictly as boroughs of NYC, and Nassau & Suffolk as "Long Island" - wouldn't it be more "grammatically" accurate to say that we live in Long Island rather than on Long Island?
I've always said on, but if "Long Island" in the commonly accepted colloquial sense only refers to it's two easternmost counties, aren't we referring to a region rather than a landmass? I think all the city people and out-of-towners who say in may have been right all along!
Thats pretty deep brother...
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