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Posted by csifeline:
So how were the boundries for New York city worked out? Got a DK book on the city and on the map at the front Yonkers and New Rochelle look quite close, but you say they're not NYC, whereas Staten Island looks to be a fair distance away and yet it is part of NYC.
To understand it, you have to know that New York City as it exists today did NOT exists until 1898, when the current city was incorporated. Early in its history, NYC was was exclusively Manhattan island. In the late 1800's, the city started adding on neighboring communities who elected to become part of it. That's why the borough names I listed above don't match the county names. Brooklyn, at one time, was the CITY of Brooklyn. All the neighborhood names in the borough of Queens, were the names of individual towns. What is now Nassau County on long island, WAS a part of Queens County, but those communities elected to NOT be incorporated into the "Greater Metropolitan City of New York. To make things even more confusing, at one point, much earlier in its history, the Bronx was a part of Westchester County, which is the county just north of the Bronx. I'm less familiar with the history of Staten Island, since it doesn't figure into my genealogy research, which is how I learned all of this anyway. But it is a part of New York City.
Where do you think the crime lab would be located in the city? It looks to be an old building that has been converted so I wouldn't have put it amongst the more modern skyscaper part of the city which is about the only part you ever see on films and such.
Good questions. I'm not sure. I don't think they've ever really said or given any hints. What does amuse me is that this one CSI location in NYC seems to cover the entire City. They've been called out scenes in all 5 boroughs I believe (Have they had a case on Staten Island? I can't remember.) A city this size, they'd most likely cover a very small area and be located in a number of labs or precincts throughout the City.