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I’m Canadian. I follow a bunch of people from NYC on Twitter (never, ever calling it X), and they often speak derogatorily about Long Island and the people who live there.

Brooklyn and Queens are geographically on Long Island, but I get the sense that when people from NYC say “Oooh, I see, he’s from Long Island”, they specifically mean the suburbs and small towns that lie east of NYC proper.

Is this correct? Or do Brooklyn and Queens constitute “Long Island” per the NYC definition?

EDIT: Thanks for the quick answers. 🙂