I'm interested to know how you became in charge of the NYC ping list. Did you used to live here?
I don't have an "official" NYC ping list... I just pinged a group of FRiends who live in the Tri-State area whom I thought might be interested in this thread. Thanks for posting it, btw... very interesting.
neverdem has the official NYC ping list to the best of my knowledge.
I live in CT, although right now we're in northern CT, near the Mass. border. I was born and partly raised in the Ft. Lee, NJ area across the Hudson, but admittedly that was a long time ago. In 2000 - due to highly unusual circumstances - I spent a fair amount of time in NYC volunteering for the ill-fated Rick Lazio campaign. It was during that time when I discovered FR and met a great bunch of NYC-area FReepers. :o)