The Incredible Shrinking New York City

A geographer has determined that the Big Apple is 17 square miles smaller than previously calculated.

Brooklyn shrank the most. Brooklyn borough President Marty Markowitz's reaction? “Now is clearly the time to annex Governors Island,” he said. “In the meantime, maybe I should get one of these sophisticated measuring devices to use as my scale at home — I might find out I’ve lost more weight than I thought.”

More calculations here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/nyregion/22shrink.html?_r=1&oref=slogin