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New York, also called New York state, is a state located in the Northeastern United States. Bordering New England to its east, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, and Canada to its north, New York extends into both the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. It is the fourth-most populous state in the United States, with over 20 million residents, and the 27th-largest state by area, with a total area of 54,556 square miles (141,300 km²).

New York has a varied geography. The southeastern part of the state, known as Downstate, encompasses New York City, the most populous city in the United States; Long Island, with approximately 40% of the state's population, the nation's most populous island; and the cities, suburbs, and wealthy enclaves of the lower Hudson Valley. These areas are the center of the expansive New York metropolitan area and account for approximately two-thirds of the state's population. The larger Upstate area spreads from the Great Lakes to Lake Champlain and includes the Adirondack Mountains and the Catskill Mountains (part of the wider Appalachian Mountains). The east–west Mohawk River Valley bisects the more mountainous regions of Upstate and flows into the north–south Hudson River valley near the state capital of Albany. Western New York, which is sometimes considered to be a separate region from the Upstate, is home to the cities of Buffalo and Rochester, and is part of the Great Lakes region, bordering Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Central New York is anchored by the city of Syracuse; between the central and western parts of the state, the Finger Lakes are a prominent landmark and tourist destination. To the south, along the state border with Pennsylvania, the Southern Tier sits atop the Allegheny Plateau, representing some of the northernmost reaches of Appalachia.

New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that went on to form the United States. The area of present-day New York had been inhabited by tribes of the Algonquians and the Iroquois Confederacy Native Americans for several thousand years by the time the earliest Europeans arrived. Stemming from Henry Hudson's expedition in 1609, the Dutch established the multiethnic colony of New Netherland in 1621. England seized the colony from the Dutch in 1664, renaming it the Province of New York. Upstate New York was fought over between the British and the French during the French and Indian War from 1754 to 1763. During the American Revolutionary War, a group of colonists eventually succeeded in establishing independence, and the state ratified the then new United States Constitution in 1788. From the early 19th century, New York's development of its interior, beginning with the construction of the Erie Canal, gave it incomparable advantages over other regions of the United States. The state built its political, cultural, and economic ascendancy over the next century, earning it the nickname of the "Empire State". Although deindustrialization eroded a portion of the state's economy in the second half of the 20th century, New York in the 21st century continues to be considered as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability. (Full article...)

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Cushing's west wing, with its central hall visible to the right

Cushing House (formerly called Cushing Hall) is a four-story dormitory on Vassar College's campus in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York. A response to freshmen overcrowding, the college's Board of Trustees hurried the Allen & Collens-designed building, named for college librarian and alumna trustee Florence M. Cushing, to construction and completion in 1927. Cushing was originally designed as eight smaller houses with euthenic principles in mind, but ended up as a single U-shaped dormitory in the Old English manor house style with Jacobean interior furnishings.

Students of all grades may live in the house, which houses up to 202 in single, double, and triple rooms. Throughout Cushing's history, various proposals and plans have incited controversy among the building's residents, including designating one of its wings as all-black housing and converting one of its common areas into eight single rooms. Contemporary reviewers have looked favorably upon Cushing's aesthetic qualities, declaring it to be one of Vassar's most beautiful buildings. (Full article...)

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Niagara Falls seen from the Canadian side of the river, including three individual falls (from left to right): American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and Horseshoe Falls

Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. The largest of the three is Horseshoe Falls, which straddles the international border of the two countries. It is also known as the Canadian Falls. The smaller American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls lie within the United States.

Formed by the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America and the seventh largest in the world. During peak daytime tourist hours, more than 168,000 m³ (5.9 million ft³) of water goes over the crest of the falls every minute. (Full article...)

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Image 1A crowd in Times Square awaits the countdown to the start of 2006. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 2Flooding on Avenue C in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy. (from History of New York (state))
Image 3The West Indian Labor Day Parade is an annual carnival along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 4A frameworker tightens bolts on the Empire State Building in 1930; the recently completed Chrysler Building is seen in the background. (from History of New York (state))
Image 5The Stadt Huys in Albany became the state's seat of government when Albany became the permanent capitol in 1797. (from History of New York (state))
Image 6New York was dominated by Iroquoian (green) and Algonquian (red) Indian tribes.
Image 7A historical juxtaposition: a replica of Henry Hudson's 17th-century Halve Maen passes modern-day lower Manhattan where the original ship would have sailed while investigating New York Harbor. (from History of New York (state))
Image 8The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center (from Culture of New York City)
Image 9Map of the Province of New York. (from History of New York (state))
Image 10John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne stylizes the American win at Saratoga. (from History of New York (state))
Image 11Theodore Roosevelt (from History of New York (state))
Image 12SUR by Xefirotarch at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens (from Culture of New York City)
Image 13New York State Theater (from Culture of New York City)
Image 14The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 15Langston Hughes was part of the Harlem Renaissance that flourished in the 1920s. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 16Martin Scorsese at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 (from Culture of New York City)
Image 17The Yoshio Taniguchi building at the Museum of Modern Art (from Culture of New York City)
Image 18United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. (from History of New York (state))
Image 19Street vendors at the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy, Lower Manhattan (from Culture of New York City)
Image 20Companies such as Eastman Kodak (Rochester headquarters pictured ca. 1900) epitomized New York's manufacturing economy in the late 19th century. (from History of New York (state))
Image 21A Phoenix rises to new life at the Village Halloween Parade fifty days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (from Culture of New York City)

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I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

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The trail by the Commercial Avenue parking lot

The Hudson Valley Rail Trail is a paved 4-mile (6.4 km) east–west rail trail in the town of Lloyd in Ulster County, New York, stretching from the Hudson River through the hamlet of Highland. The trail was originally part of the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route, a rail corridor that crossed the Hudson via the Poughkeepsie Bridge. Controlled by a variety of railroads throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the bridge was damaged and became unusable after a May 8, 1974 fire. By the 1980s, the corridor's then-owner, Conrail, had routed all rail traffic in the region north through Selkirk Yard and was eager to relieve itself of the bridge and adjoining rights-of-way. In 1984, it sold the entire property for one dollar to a felon who did not maintain it or pay taxes on it. The section of the corridor west of the Hudson was seized by Ulster County in 1991 and transferred to the town of Lloyd.

During the 1990s, a broadband utility seeking to lay fiber optic cable paid the town to pass through the former corridor. The town used part of its payment to pave the route and open it as a public rail trail in 1997. The creation of the trail was supported by a local Rotary club, which built a pavilion along the trail. The pavilion includes a donated antique caboose. While the trail originally ended at Route 44–55, it was extended eastward between 2009 and 2010, intersecting Route 9W and continuing to the Poughkeepsie Bridge. The extension was paid for by stimulus funding. (Full article...)

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The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center is a multi-venue arts center on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy. EMPAC opened in October 2008 at a cost of $220 million. The main concert hall seats 1,200, and has been lauded as one of the most acoustically perfect concert halls in the world. The acoustical firm Kirkegaard Associates was contracted to work on the system. Extensive computer modeling was done of the ceiling canopy before construction to optimize the transmission of sound waves. EMPAC is the newest building on RPI's campus since the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.

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August 9, 2026 –: The boat operator involved in a capsizing that killed two people, including a 5-month-old toddler, and injured 12 others near the Statue of Liberty, New York City, United States on August 8 has been arrested on 13 counts of reckless endangerment. (ABC)
August 3, 2026 –: In horse racing, Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New York Racing Association announce a new championship series for 3-year old Thoroughbreds beginning in 2027, involving the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, but notably omitting the traditional middle leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. (Courier Journal) (The Daily Gazette)
July 25, 2026 –: One person is killed and at least 22 others are injured in a five-alarm fire in Flushing, New York City, United States. (WNBC)
July 22, 2026 – Stabbing of Salman Rushdie: The federal trial against Hadi Matar, the man who attempted to kill author Salman Rushdie in August 2022 in New York, United States, opens. If he is convicted, Matar faces a sentence of life in prison. He is already serving a 25-year state prison sentence in New York. (AP) (The Guardian)
July 21, 2026 – Middle Eastern crisis: The U.S. military confirms that a third service member, identified as 28-year-old Sgt. Angel S Rampersad of New York, was killed during a recent attack on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, bringing the total American casualties to 18. (Military Times)

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Rob Carpenter (born August 1, 1968) is a retired American football wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots, New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.
George Herbert "Pete" Bostwick (August 14, 1909 in Bisby Lake, New York - January 13, 1982) was an American court tennis player, a steeplechase jockey and horse trainer, and an eight-goal polo player.
Thomas Christian Murphy (born August 27, 1979, in Suffern, New York) is a Major League Baseball outfielder with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Murphy is a 1997 graduate of Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda, Florida.
George Dupont Pratt (16 August 1869 in Brooklyn – 20 January 1935) was a conservationist, philanthropist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of ancient antiquities.

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Manhattan is an island borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195 and land area of 22.96 square miles (59.47 km²), thus making it is the most densely populated county in the United States at 66,940 residents per square mile (25,846/km²).

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Nicknames: The Empire State, The Excelsior State
Capital: Albany
Governor: Kathy Hochul (D)
Lieutenant Governor: Antonio Delgado (D)
Secretary of State: Robert J. Rodriguez (D)
Attorney General: Letitia James (D)

Total area: 54,555 mi²
- Land: 47,190 mi²
- Water: 7,365 mi²
Highest elevation: 5,344 ft (Mount Marcy)

Population 19,745,289 (2016 est)
Admission to the Union: July 26, 1788 (11^th)

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Animal: Beaver
Bird: Eastern Bluebird
Colors: Blue & Gold
Freshwater Fish: Brook trout
Saltwater Fish: Striped bass
Flower: Rose
Fossil: Eurypterus remipes
Insect: Nine-spotted Ladybug
Songs: "I Love New York"
Tree: Sugar Maple
Gem: Garnet

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