Talk:Babs Seed/@comment-25337000-20140822220700/@comment-1439415-20140904140217

Hooflyn is probably supposed to be Equestria's counterpart to Brooklyn, one of New York City's boroughs. So, I could guess this is a main area where New York City and Manehattan may differ, since the name Manehattan covered all of its boroughs, instead of just the one it is in. [It would be like New York City as a whole calling itself Manhattan.]  Or maybe, since Hooflyn and Manehattan are in close enough vacinity, Applejack made an error and Babs just went with it as a common error. (Like people saying Adventureland is in Des Moines when it's actually in Altoona, one of its suburbs.)  Perhaps it will later be revealed that Manehatten and Hooflyn are both boroughs of a larger city, the name of which has not been given yet. But the duke of what region was the namesake of the city? Time for the writers to brainstorm...