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  1. well then, by all means let’s thank them fro our current situation. An why don’t we test it out by allowing the outer boroughs to secede? the boroughs are part of an integrated whole- but everyone else gets shortchanged because Manhattan gets so much. Brooklyn is not a suburb.

  2. The truth of the matter is that Manhattan commercial real estate tax, and income tax paid by Manhattan-based finance workers, are the cash cows that fills the city’s coffers. Not to mention that Manhattan businesses employ the vast majority of the city’s private sector workers, and constitute pretty much all of NYC’s export industry. The only other significant locations for private sector jobs are the airports in Queens. There are a relative handful of ‘back-office’ jobs in Downtown Brooklyn and LIC, which only exist due to proximity to Manhattan, and are far smaller than the similar concentration in Jersey City. The density of Manhattan’s commercial districts is what allows the boroughs to have lower property taxes than other suburbs.

  3. NYc is 5 boroughs. Manhattan is the center but the boroughs are integral parts of the city, not suburbs. The problem with your kind of thinking is the same as Bloomberg’s -everything for Manhattan and a lot less for the boroughs. Manhattan sucks it all up at the expense of Brooklyn. It used to be that when we talked about Manhattan we used to just call it “downtown.” today when people talk about NYC they think it’s only Manhattan.

    I think it sucks, personally. I’ve watched Manhattan get more money, and more services over the years while Brooklyn Bronx, Queens and SI get less. Brooklyn started getting real attention when Bloomberg decided the downtown area was a great back office for Manhattan. I resent that kind of thinking- without the income from the outer boroughs, Manhattan buses could barely run.

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