At the moment, I am in Calif.  Not sure why that matters here on the interwebs.

Some New Yorkers have heard of it.  David Ganz, Richard Timberlake, Nathan Lewis, Steve Forbes are New Yorkers who have all written about LD and are aware of NLD.  Though admittedly we keep a much lower profile than the original.

If you never heard of Liberty Dollar, it was one of Satoshi's inspirations.  "New" Liberty Dollar is the successor due to the fact that the Liberty Dollar founder is currently fighting off the US Government's false accusations in their attempt to maintain a monopoly on money.  He may spend the rest of his life in court as a professional defendant, but I hope he outlives their onslaught.  NLD kept as much of the original as legally possible, dropped all the politics, and set up shop.  Consequently "New Liberty Dollars" are OK to sell on eBay, and original "Liberty Dollars" aren't (yet).