How are we defining "Outskirts" in National LCS, anyway? One hour's drive away? Two? Anywhere you can drive to and from in the same day?
I would assume that "Outskirts" are anywhere outside city limits but relatively nearby geographically, in, say, a 50-mile radius from the city limits.
Eh, I wouldn't consider the Hamptons "NYC Metro". The distance between NYC and those areas is too far to be considered adjacent. You can access those areas by driving or the LIRR, but it certainly isn't a short amount of time, so it is impractical for Long Island became the outskirts. It's almost like considering all of NJ outskirts to Newark.
You could probably consider Yonkers or Staten Island as outskirts... I mean, Staten Island is a borough, but it isn't exactly a center of activity.
Also, on another note, Times Square as a site should be possible. Possibly as a park? Dunno.
OK, so you have a point about Long Island, I just looked at a map to get an idea of the size of it, and I agree with you that the eastern end of Long Island, especially the Hamptons all the way on the east, isn't really NYC outskirts. So let's just say Nassau County is NYC outskirts but Suffolk County isn't. That island really is long, quite an apt name. I'm an upstate New Yorker from the Binghamton area so all that downstate stuff near NYC, I kinda consider it all the NYC area, guess it's just my upstate bias showing. I did often go to Long Island when I was a kid, had an aunt and uncle down there plus 2 cousins and a dog, they lived in Freeport, in Nassau County. Not that far from city limits. So my impression of it was, Long Island is NYC outskirts, especially since the only way in or out is by going through the city itself. Never actually been to the eastern end of Long Island myself, that's why I checked a map to see how big it is, and it's a bit bigger than I thought. I guess my impression is a little biased since whenever I went to Long Island I went to the town of Freeport which is really close to city limits. So yes, you're right, the eastern part of Long Island, Suffolk County, should not be considered NYC outskirts, just Nassau County. Or maybe we could be a little more Liberal and consider the western part of Suffolk County to be NYC outskirts but not the eastern part of Suffolk County (Suffolk County does take up the vast majority of Long Island's land area after all, with Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau County all combined taking up a fraction of the size, on the western end of Long Island).
Staten Island, or Shaolin Land as the Wu-Tang Clan calls it, it's PART of the city, it's not outskirts, I have a friend from college who lives on Staten Island, visited him there, short ride on the Staten Island Ferry to and from Manhattan, it's one of the 5 boroughs, it's insulting to call it outskirts when it's part of the city, outskirts are areas outside the city that are relatively close. Why does Staten Island, whoops I mean Shaolin Land, always get the short end of the stick? I remember after that hurricane and flood last fall, Shaolin Land kept getting ignored, and instead everyone kept focusing on the damage in places like the Jersey Shore (where President Obama and Chris Christie went on a buddy tour) and the Rocakways in Queens. But Shaolin Land got devastated and got a lot less relief than other places in the region. The Ol' Dirty Bastard is rolling over in his Ol' Dirty Grave over this.
Got an aunt and uncle down near the southern tip of New Jersey, near Cape May (coincidentally, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, one of my favorite TV shows, takes place in that same area, near the southern tip of New Jersey, in the fictional city of Seattle, New Jersey). The southern part of New Jersey is not very close to New York City or Newark, it's closer to Philadelphia (in Pennsylvania), along with the state of Delaware. Anyway, Newark doesn't HAVE outskirts because it IS an outskirt of NYC, it's up there in northeast New Jersey right near the big city. Places like Newark and Hoboken are most definitely NYC outskirts.
Also Yonkers, White Plains, New Rochelle, and the rest of Westchester County are all NYC outskirts. Very close from there to The Bronx, which is part of NYC. Used to go to New Rochelle all the time when I was a kid. My grandfather lived there and commuted to a job in the World Trade Center, back in the day. Definitely NYC outskirts, right there. World Trade Center, it was on the southern end of Manhattan, now they're building a new one, that whole "Freedom Tower" thing. If you can commute to the WTC from a place to the north of NYC in not much time, like my grandfather, well then obviously you're living in the NYC outskirts.
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