 The work has been imitated in postcard format by numerous municipalities, states and nations.Steinberg had stated that he could have retired on royalties from the many parodies made of the painting, had they been paid, a motivation for his eventual copyright lawsuit for the "Moscow on the Hudson" use.Fulford, writing in The "National Post", noted that the metaphor of the world as a suburb of Manhattan was "understood and borrowed" by the whole world.