Talk:New York City

FAQ #3

Any thoughts on whether the question on why this article isn't titled New York (city) should be included on the FAQ?? Georgia guy (talk) 20:07, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

The city is commonly known as New York City, not (ever) as New York (city). Castncoot (talk) 23:36, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

The city is officially named New York. It is not like Kansas City or Missouri City or Texas City. The word "city" is not part of the name. However, people from outside of New York often refer to it as "New York City." When this was debated in the past, you would have people who actually live in and around the city of New York on the side of calling the page "New York (city)" or "New York, New York" but the outsiders think they know better than the people who live here. Personally, I think that's B.S. People call Los Angeles "L.A." more than they call it "Los Angeles," but no one seriously considers changing the title of that page to "L.A." Let us people from the city of New York decide what our city should be called! 67.82.27.217 (talk) 23:16, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Really, you never hear people from NYC call it "New York City"? I find that hard to believe, as a lifelong area resident myself. If anything, it's more common here, because we actually know (and care) about the state. Of course, most people in the area just refer to it as "the City" more often than not, but to assert that "New York City" is unused by people in and near NYC is frankly ridiculous. oknazevad (talk) 14:01, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Cohesion of first sentence

Castncoot, I noticed you [1] reverted my edit to the first sentence (summary: fix cohesion of first sentence), with the summary "already cohesive". I thought my edit was fine, and I was wondering how you thought my edit messed with the apparent cohesiveness of the sentence. Thanks! APerson (talk!) 00:56, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi! I actually thought that your edit was a reasonable one! A group of us had taken some time to work on this critical first sentence quite a long time ago, and one of the goals was to get this highly significant point across right off the bat, rather than making it a "lower down" issue. Also, it's actually the metro area that is cited, not the city itself, even if the majority of new legal immigrants likely dock in the city first. So we'd be trading off both accuracy and emphasis for no significant change in cohesion. But thank you. Castncoot (talk) 01:11, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

New York City linguistics

I thought that there was no source to back the fact that NYC is the most linguistically diverse city in the world until I carefully revised the sources. Not to mention the ones you added. I think it is obvious I made a mistake in the page. (N0n3up (talk) 03:17, 3 May 2015 (UTC))

No problem! (Will also copy this small thread from this (my) talk page to the article's Talk page.) Castncoot (talk) 16:49, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Timeline of New York City

What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 08:51, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Is there really an "official" name for New York City?

What document have you seen that officially assigned the name "New York City" to the collective 5 counties/boroughs? Must have been an official of the State, unless all 5 counties actually signed off on a joint document. Also, keep in mind that the official county name for the Manhattan Borough alone is "New York". Therefore, citing "New York" alone invites confusion! 2602:304:CDA6:51B0:9522:B36D:1596:6D78 (talk) 06:11, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

The city charter calls it "the City of New York". But official names are not as important common names around here. oknazevad (talk) 13:32, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 June 2015

Metro surface is marked as:

• Metro	13,318 sq mi (34,490 km2)

It should be:

• Metro	13.318 sq mi (34.490 km2)

17.72.127.43 (talk) 18:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)