A Geocentric View From CCNY

• Our neighborhood: Manhattanville (our first famous resident was Alexander Hamilton). Ha(a)rlem is the flat land to the east of us.
• Our county: New York (Manhattan Island)
• Our City: New York City (includes The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn [Kings County] and Staten Island [Richmond County])
• Our State: New York State (Albany is the capitol of The Empire State)
• Our nearest neighbors: New Jersey (The Garden State) to the south and Connecticut (The Nutmeg State) to the north (New England)
• New York is one of the original thirteen colonies:

• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina

• Georgia

• The mid-west begins with Ohio.
• Eventually you come to the Mississippi River and that’s where the west begins.
• When you get to either California, Oregon or Washington stand on the beach and watch the sun set into the Pacific.
• Texas used to be part of Mexico. Then it became the largest state until somebody decided to add Alaska to the famous forty-eight. And since they added such a frigid state they had to counterbalance it with a new warm state, which was Hawaii.
• Oklahoma is a Broadway show by Rodgers and Hammerstein and also a state.
• There are 50 states and most of them seem to either have English, Spanish, or Native American names (what are the others?).
• New York City may be considered the capitol of the world since so many people want to come here and attend CCNY. It was originally a Dutch colony (Amsterdam Avenue), then the English stole it, and now it belongs to the world.
• There was a convent on Convent Avenue.