New York boink Oct 24/25?

[nq:1]I shall be in New York at the end of the month, with free time from the afternoon of Friday ... agenda or constraints on my time, so I'm open to suggestions. I haven't been into the city for 24 years![/nq]
Some curious usages there: "moving into the city for the weekend" and "haven't been into the city". BrE I presume.

[nq:2]I shall be in New York at the end of ... suggestions. I haven't been into the city for 24 years![/nq]
[nq:1]Some curious usages there: "moving into the city for the weekend" and "haven't been into the city". BrE I presume.[/nq]
I'm working on Long Island during the week. "The city" means the central part of the city, at least in this instance.

I've changed planes at JFK over

[nq:1]I've changed planes at JFK over the last 20 years, but I've not left the airport. Would US persons say that I have visited New York?[/nq]
I wouldn't. I say that as someone who's changed planes in the Dallas-Fort Worth and the St. Louis airports a few times. I don't consider myself to have visited those cities.

[nq:2]I've changed planes at JFK over the last 20 years, ... Would US persons say that I have visited New York?[/nq]
[nq:1]I wouldn't. I say that as someone who's changed planes in the Dallas-Fort Worth and the St. Louis airports a few times. I don't consider myself to have visited those cities.[/nq]
Right. That is what my use of "haven't been into the city for 24 years" was intended to co

[nq:2]I wouldn't. I say that as someone who's changed planes ... times. I don't consider myself to have visited those cities.[/nq]
[nq:1]Right. That is what my use of "haven't been into the city for 24 years" was intended to convey. I might have been in the vicinity, even within the boundaries, but I haven't been into the "city".[/nq]
Just don't make the mistake of thinking that you have t

[nq:2]Right. That is what my use of "haven't been into ... within the boundaries, but I haven't been into the "city".[/nq]
[nq:1]Just don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to be in Manhattan to be in the city. That's a rank Sandism.[/nq]
I think it's rather a pondian difference, done to death over Manchester a few months ago. So I shall desist.

David
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[nq:2]Right. That is what my use of "haven't been into ... within the boundaries, but I haven't been into the "city".[/nq]
[nq:1]Just don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to be in Manhattan to be in the city. That's a rank Sandism.[/nq]
More universal than that, I'd say.

Charles Riggs
Email address: chriggs¦at¦eircom¦dot¦net

[nq:2]Just don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to be in Manhattan to be in the city. That's a rank Sandism.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think it's rather a pondian difference, done to death over Manchester a few months ago. So I shall desist.[/nq]
Whoa, now I'm dead confused. I'd've thought that the BrE could say they were "in New York (city)" as long as they're anywhere in the Tri-State Are

david56 wrote, in part:
[nq:1]I shall be in New York at the end of the month, with free time from the afternoon of Friday 24th October until midday on Sunday 26th.[/nq]
Wherever two or three are gathered in AUE's name, it's a boink... I'm free, as far as I know (my baby thinks its funny when I make plans). Who else is in town?

SML
ess el five six zero at columbia dot edu

I wrote, too hastily:
[nq:1]david56 wrote, in part:[/nq]
[nq:2]I shall be in New York at the end of ... afternoon of Friday 24th October until midday on Sunday 26th.[/nq]
[nq:1]Wherever two or three are gathered in AUE's name, it's a boink... I'm free, as far as I know (my baby thinks its funny when I make plans). Who else is in town?[/nq]
Shoot. I just remembered there's a good ch