Travel between boroughs among those who live, and not just work, in New York City is as unusual as travel between states is. And each borough does have a population larger than a dozen or more states (except “suburban” Staten Island, which by all rights should have ended up as part of New Jersey).
Yeah, I gathered that much while there. Told my fellow travelers in the car. "These people never leave their burrough", they simply do not know, which then makes it forgivable and yet SAD.
Even the Policemen could not tell me how to get on the Interstate. They would say something like, "I think you go, etc.".
I finally had to find a "Truck Route" sign and follow that. lol
Oh how I love the wide open spaces of the midwest and my car. I know where places are and how to tell you to get there, even if it is 100 miles away from me, you'll get there with my directions, and I will use a smile in giving it.