NYC
I'm curious about what response you get from your inquiry. I'm also VERY curious about from where the DEC fellow got his information.
Before retiring and moving out to PA, I lived in NYC (Brooklyn) for more than 20 years. I still spend a number of days a week there regularly.
I suppose that duck hunting is possible down on the wetlands around the old Floyd Bennett airfield and Jamaica Bay but I cannot think of anywhere in four of the NYC counties that one could hunt small game. There may well be places in the fifth county (Richmond/Staten Island) that hunting is possible.
Side issue - I moved to rural PA after I retired and thoroughly enjoy what that offers, especially during the upland game season, but I also enjoyed living in NYC - and still enjoy it when I'm there. I read a lot of criticism about life in cities - and it sure is different - but mostly it's just different and not bad.
When I'm at my home in PA, if I want to get something - a quart of milk, a newspaper, ice cream...anything - I have to drive at least six miles to do that. When I am in Brooklyn, that errand is a two minute or less walk in any direction. In PA, if I want to catch a movie on a Friday night, I have to drive twenty-five miles one way. In NYC, there are two multiplex theaters within a three minute walk. (and at least forty restaurants if I want a bite to eat).
Yes, firearms laws are way more restrictive than in PA but I still bought my first five handguns and ten rifles - legally - in NYC. I had/have a pistol range (OK, it's indoors but it's still a nice place to shoot) five blocks from my home in Brooklyn, literally a walk down the street.
Safety/violence? NYC is down the list of the worst cities. Any where you find lots of people close together the problems are denser too; yet, per capita, I've met just as many scary folk in rural PA as I've met in NYC. (Honestly, I felt way less safe walking through the woods while fishing in Alaska than I have ever felt walking about in the city) Yes, it's noisier...and there's litter around, but not proportionately more so than the beer cans and other trash that I find on the side of the road in PA when I'm out with the dog; there are slobs in the country too, but their damage is more spread out. Generally, though, things are pretty tidy given that there are 8 million people producing waste. While some of us have lived for years in big cities and have opted for the quieter and slower life of the hills, a lot of criticism of city life comes from people who have never lived in a city.
Pete
