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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

NYC is one of a number of world cities known by acronyms or nicknames:

Rio For Rio de Janeiro
HK For Hong Kong
TJ For Tijuana
KL For Kuala Lumpur
TO For Toronto
Joburg For Johannesburg

There's even a whole country that goes by its initials: UK.

So, stop thinking this is some American thing, it's just a way that people shorten the names of common cities that have a few too many syllables to be convenient.