Talk:Empire State

Suggestions from copy edit
After copyediting this at UpstateNYer's request, I have a couple of issues that, I suppose, any editor could resolve:


 * What year did Flick's first book come out? It would be helpful to say in the text.


 * There are other uses of "Empire State" that could be mentioned: Empire State Development Corporation, the Pataki-era renaming of the former Urban Development Corporation and the Jay-Z-Alicia Keys collaboration "Empire State of Mind" come to mind. I also remember it being used in an unflattering, sarcastic way in political commentary, i.e., the "Run-like-an-Empire State". Perhaps we could find something on that? Daniel Case (talk) 05:00, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll find out about Flick's book. I think Empire State of Mind is a misnomer because they're talking about the city, which really isn't related (i.e., it's not called the Empire City or anything of the sort).  upstate NYer  19:31, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Bad taste nickname
I just thought of this for the first time... but isn't it kinda bad taste to be a empire in 2012? Wasn't that American Revolution exactly against that whole thing? I think the state of New York needs a new nickname — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.20.242.81 (talk) 02:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC)


 * While the US Empire has many heads, New York is surely one of the main ones. Hence it's a fitting name indeed. I agree being an empire is "bad taste" (in 2012, in 2022 and in 2001), but I'm not sure being tasteful is even on the list of objectives sadly, other than for appearances of course. When it comes the American Revolution, it has good ideals, but I'm not sure those are really on the objectives list either. Iskube (talk) 11:16, 22 August 2022 (UTC)