American Schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry

[Joy M]

No: HPFGUIDX 27175

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Demelza" <muggle-reader at a...> wrote:
> I agree with other group members that NYC would be a good location 
> for one of the American schools. However, I think Manhattan is too 
> crowded already. Maybe the school is located in one of the 5 
> boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Staten Island.

The 5 boroughs of New York are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten 
Island and Manhattan.  Manhattan is ONE of the 5 boroughs.  NYC 
consists of 5 boroughs, of which Manhattan is one.  Long Island is 
not part of NYC.  It is an island upon which Brooklyn, Queens (2 of 
the boroughs of NYC) are located, as are Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Sorry to sound so pissy but misidentifying your boroughs is 
considered a capital offense in NYC, and I am just trying to save you 
from a hanging.

> Out of 
> the boroughs, I would opt for the Bronx. The Bronx in the 18th to 
> 19th centuries was countryside (a good place to hide a wizarding 
> school). Edgar Allen Poe lived there for a while in what was to 
> become the Grand Concourse. By the early 20th century, it became 
more 
> industrialized and more populated. The Grand Concourse was the 
place 
> to go to be seen and to shop.. A school could have existed in this 
> area at that time in the disguise of an iron foundry or some sort 
of 
> factory or warehouse. 

ALL of New York City was largely farmland in the 18th century and 
much of Manhattan was still farmland even in the 19th century.

>Likewise, a school can still exist today in the 
> disguise of a warehouse or crumbling factory. 
> 
Yep, like in an abandoned warehouse on the West Side of Manhattan.

Sorry for a largely OT post, but I just could not stand to have my 
beloved home town be misidentified.  We Newyawkers are EXTREMELY 
sensitive that way.

--Joywitch