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In what state is Gotham City?
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#105477. Asked by star_gazer. (May 11 09 12:32 AM)
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cloe16
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The no such thing as Gotham City. It is only a fictional city.
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madkeen4
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The majority of appearances, however, place Gotham on the eastern coast of the United States.
Historically, "Gotham" is a nickname for New York, first used by Washington Irving in the early 19th century.[15] For most of the publication history of Batman in comics, Gotham has been assumed to be a New York City analogue, Frank Miller has said that "Metropolis is New York in the daytime; Gotham City is New York at night." DC Comics president and publisher Paul Levitz says that Gotham is "New York from 14th Street down, the older buildings, more brick-and-mortar as opposed to steel-and-glass. Or, you know, Boston." New York Times journalist William Safire describes Gotham City as "New York below 14th Street, from SoHo to Greenwich Village, the Bowery, Little Italy, Chinatown, and the sinister areas around the base of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.
So New York State.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City
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