I have to crack up at some of these articles in a few NY publications. It just shows how isolated some liberal New Yorkers are. I mean give me a break, if they bothered to head 35 miles out of the city into New Jersey or lower New York State, they would see plenty of farms and hear people who don't speak with a New York City dialect.
That's the most annoying thing about limousine liberal NYers.
Most of them speak the "unaccented" English of TV news talking heads. To them, a Noo Yawk accent is only one step above a Texas twang or a Mississippi drawl.
All accents except Peter Jennings' duckspeak, drawing-room British and Continental European are considered by them to be evidence of limited mental capacity.
I now speak this "unaccented" English because at the age of 13 I began attending an exclusive Jesuit school on the Upper East Side and my Noo Yawk accent was unacceptable in the debating society.
When I go back to Queens I usually "revert" to the accent of my youth, but I find that speaking in TV English is best for business.
Still, I love occasionally debating liberals as a Noo Yawkuh because they make embarrassing assumptions about my education that expose them as the twits they are.