It's time for New York to drop the "New"

I thank brian_eggleston for instigating this ‘debate’, I hope to enjoy this and wish us luck. ◕‿◕ Case/Rebuttal: First, I’d like to point out that an antique Chinese vase is worth more than 10 bucks {1}, if you didn’t get a refund, just be thankful and auction it in eBay. Now, since we’re only in the usual 2-round debate, I can’t just type an acceptance, so I’ll just start with my case and rebuttals. My opponent’s states that the ‘New’ in NYC should be dropped because anything over three centuries old can’t be ‘new’. In 1642, the New Zealand isles were discovered by a Dutch named Abel Tasman, which he named Staten Landt, but he thought it was part of Argentina, but since it wasn’t, it was renamed to Nieuw Zeeland coming from Zeeland province of Holland, then eventually, it was now known as New Zealand. It’s over 350 years old, yet it’s still considered ‘New’. {3} Also, in the 1500s, when Spain conquered the country of Mexico, Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez explored the territories of North America and discovered new places and called them a "New Mexico", which is now considered a state in the USA using that name, it’s around 500 years old, yet we still call them ‘New’. {4} Next, my opponent then argues that we rename ‘New York’ to ‘York’ and replace the original ‘York’ of New Yorkshire to ‘Old York’. There’s a problem, if we would do that, shouldn’t we also rename a certain jurisdictions such as New Zealand to Zealand (of Denmark) or Zeeland (of Holland), and rename the original ones to ‘Old’, or rename New Jersey to Jersey and replace the (original) Bailiwick of Jersey to Old Jersey, or rename the state of New Mexico to Mexico? What would we rename the State of New York with? It would definitely cause a huge dispute, which may end badly. Also, there’s a big problem if we rename NYC to YC, because you see, in the state of New York, there is already a city named ‘York’ {5}, there are also dozens of cities/counties in the US named ‘York’, a few in Australia and Canada, and 3 including the original in England. {6} We wouldn’t want to confuse Americans do we? ‘New York’ is named after the Duke of York, an honouring of his name, but since York already existed then, they just out a ‘New’ so they can tell the difference. New shouldn’t be defined as recently like 10 years ago, it’s more broad than that. Next, consider this situation: An Englishman says: “I’m going to New York!” His friend replies: “Bloody brilliant!” --- An Englishman says: “I’m going to York!” His friend replies: “Big deal, which York anyway?” Not only does that not sound good, but NYC’s legacy would vanish, its culture and influence forgotten, especially 9/11, the sign ‘Never forget – 9/11’ would be absolutely forgotten in vain. New York is the greatest city in the world (at least for men) {2}, people are used to that name, and many people will claim they live in the greatest city on Earth, we don’t want that do we? Do we really want to confuse or screw up population statistics? If we rename NYC and York, we would be stressing Wikipedia contributors on editing massive Wikipedia articles just to make things right, we would be wasting more of their time, Google will need a massive update on its search and maps, we would change documents, historical and cultural items that inscribes ‘New York’ in them. It just burns my eyes! ^ And finally, with dozens of Yorks out there, lots of people may be confused in airports on what gate they should be in to go to the right ‘York’, this may cause possible job loss, missing job interviews, and, God forbid, it may break up a marriage. Ergo, it's not time to rename the greatest city in the world, nor it would be, maybe in the near future when all 'Yorks' in the world would be destroyed by an earthquake, tsunami, etc. Not only that, bt renaming it would be a very, very, very bad idea. Thank you and good luck! References: {1} http://www.dailymail.co.uk... {2} http://www.politicsdaily.com... {3} http://en.wikipedia.org... {4} http://wiki.answers.com... {5} http://en.wikipedia.org... {6} http://goo.gl... {7} http://en.wikipedia.org...