Philly has 66 wards. Plus New York City.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the 67th ward had a great thing going. It was gritty, grimy, Bohemian and re-envisioning what a city should be. Now, anything distinctive that remains was promptly robbed by unheard of gentrification, rehashed TV and movies, much copy-catted stand up comedy and other soul-sucking attention.

New York's self-image is stuck obsessively in a time long since commercialized, reproduced and sold on magnets, in snow-globes and other Made in China nick knacks. So, Philadelphia is realer now. It's blossoming and flourishing in a way that New York once was.

So, we wanted to give New York a blueprint back to the best of what it once was, much of which is in Philadelphia now and lots more to boot. We wanted to remind everyone that Philadelphia has every reason to make folks forget about the 67th ward.

Technically Philly posts about New York City:

3.5 years in, Valley Forge search engine DuckDuckGo raises funding (October 14, 2011)

Change by Us: Philly version of web tool to crowdsource civic action projects launches beta (October 13, 2011)

New incubator Ecelerator wants to play match maker between entrepreneurs and corporations (October 12, 2011)

VC Roundup: The first Philly.com incubator company? (September 13, 2011)

Code for America will be in Philadelphia in 2012; current fellows launch Change by Us (September 12, 2011)

Drink Nation: DrinkPhilly.com launches national expansion plan, including DC, Baltimore, NYC (September 8, 2011)

Justin Giza: Drink Philly editor, nerd rapper leaves for NYC to pursue music career (September 6, 2011)

Tutorspree: online marketplace for tutors launches in Philly with DreamIt grad founder [VIDEO] (August 23, 2011)

Road Map for the Digital City: NYC unveils plan for digital future (August 19, 2011)

DreamIt Ventures NYC accelerator: the inside story by the Next Web (August 18, 2011)