Hear, hear. When you become a metonymy for the city, I feel like you get to have an avatar. Also, to flip it a little bit so it is about the Jews, NYC has the largest single Jewish population in the world. Bigger than Jerusalem, almost as big as the entire Jewish population of Europe. When it's a demographic pole of global Jewry, it seems slightly important to acknowledge, even if it's only about 13% of the city as a whole (same percentage as people of Asian descent, with some overlap, obviously).

I think one can say, as listed above, "Well, then where do you stop?" Maybe the answer is not to stop, have more avatars or make them different than they are.