How crazy living in New York City really is?

How do you fill out a form when it's states city and state while living in New York ?

• I've been living in new York for 8 years and every form I fill out I put Bronx for he city and new York for the state. Is that not correct? I was told differently? I really want to know if Ive been doing this wrong !!! Anyone fill me in ....lol

• Answer:

  As usual, Native New Yorker knows what he's talking about, as long as he sticks to the Bronx and Manhattan. But when he comments on any other borough, he often gets it wrong. He's right about you writing Bronx for the city and New York for the state. He's right about people in Astoria, Queens writing Astoria for the city and New York for the state. He is wrong about why! It has nothing to do with the size of the borough! It has to do with the way Queens became part of NYC. When Queens joined NYC, it was a collection of small towns, unlike Brooklyn, which was a city, and unlike the Bronx and Staten Island, which were mostly farmland. Queens already had an identity as a group of small towns, all of which already had postal addresses with the U.S. Post Office. The post office doesn't like change, so they kept the addresses the same. (This is not uncommon, the town I grew up in in New Jersey had a similar issue.)