The founding fathers of the city included Queens and Brooklyn strictly for a source of tax revenue. Native Americans still inhabited Long Island. It all started with Hicksville', little by little, towns developed to the east and became incorporated, as the natives disappeared ... Reminds me also of the Bronx. In the early years of development, people, referred to the Bronx as going up state. Any area outside Manhattan, was considered "Hicksville" Hicks, and hayseeds'.............
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