Metro NYC depends on providing media/financial service to the rest of the USA. What the Leftist don’t seem to realize is they are parasites living off the productive parts of the USA. They don’t actually produce anything anymore, they only provide services
Might have been a crushing argument at one point, but now so many things Americans use are made in China or Mexico or some other country, I don't think it will fly.
And even back when American industry dominated the world, New York was a major manufacturing center. It's where a lot of your clothes came from back in those days.
Anyway, I'm not going to throw deindustrialization in New York's face when it's a much bigger phenomenon in today's global economy and affects the heartland as much as the biggest cities.