Lol!  There PA goes again.  You can't get enough and want that NYC attention very badly.  If the Tri-state area revolved around NJ, then PA would be in, but since it revolves around NYC AND Long Island is there as well, CT is here.  On top of that, CT is a lot closer to NYC than any part PA.  Eastern PA also has it's own major city in Philly, PLUS PA is not really the east coast anyway... 

 PA needs to get off of NYC jockstrap.  I never saw a state that is not even in NYC's metro region try so hard to be a part of it.  You try it with your Poconos, the gambling thing and your governor even asked to relocted (I think) monies and/or businesses to PA in case of another 9-11!  Forgetting that fact that the much closer NJ and CT already cover that... 

 It is also weird since you brought up New England (which is a northern CT thing by the way), Boston does the oppsite of what PA does.  Boston wants to keep pulling CT out of the NYC area because they want a larger market share and presence amongst cities.  Both MA and PA really want the same thing - a piece of the NY pie and both of you are in the same position - outside of the states of the Tri-state area.  The both of you need to worry about you own regions and mind your business.  You are like Iran always interferring with Arabic business when they are not arabs.  Get your own jockstrap PA and Boston - leave ours alone, we are not trying to see either of you.