Structuring New York City

Hi there,

I’ve been building my directory for a week or two and the first major problem I’ve run into is how to structure locations in New York with the available fields. Hoping someone with some experience of dealing with this has found a good way. Not having local knowledge doesn’t help, but there are so many areas within other areas I need to decide what the best approach is.

I’ve been working with:

Country> United States
Region > New York
City > New York
Neighbourhood > Borough of New York (eg Brooklyn)

This seems to be the best compromise and the best URL structure for SEO I’ve been able to find, even though somewhere like Brooklyn is too big to be a neighbourhood.

However – what about places in Long Island? I understand that locals use the term to mean Nassau and Suffolk Counties which I don’t think are part of New York City, but Long Island technically includes Queens and Brooklyn.

All I can think of is that I need different structures to deal with New York City and everywhere else properly

So for New York city:

Country> United States
Region > New York
Sub-region > Long Island
City > New York
Borough > Brooklyn
Neighbourhood > Williamsburg

Long Island/Everywhere else:

Country> United States
Region > New York
Sub-region > Long Island
County > Nassau County
City > Hempstead
Neighbourhood > [not required]

Is there a way to create this structure or a good compromise to use?

I hope that makes some sense, I’d really appreciate anyone’s thoughts on this!