Them there are fightin' words..............and I do not say that as a Virginian, even though I live here, but as a native New Yorker.
The truth is a difficult thing for some. Nonetheless it is the truth :)
Besides being a New Yorker is not exactly something I would be proud about. Outside of spending more money for sports championships per capita than any other city in the industrialized world - stockmarket fraud, and mob murders there ain't a heckuvalot NY is known for.
Oh yeah Broadway plays. OK, I'll give you that one.
Then again NY has got the UN so that kind of balances it out.