Do You Really Know New York State?

There is more to New York State than NYC

My mother used to tell me that most New Yorkers believed that anything above 125th Street in Manhattan was ‘upstate’ New York. She wasn’t wrong. Many native New Yorkers wrongly identify locations in New York as upstate New York.

So… I will go over and give some clarification so you will be informed about the Empire State.

There are basically 11 different areas of New York State. Let’s get into it.

1. Capital District: Saratoga, Albany, Schenectady and Rensselaer Counties

2. Adirondack Region: Franklin, Clinton, Lewis, Herkimer, Hamilton, Essex, Warren, Fulton, and Washington Counties.

3. Catskills: Delaware, Greene, Ulster, and Sullivan Counties

4. Hudson Valley: Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, Orange, Westchester, and Rockland Counties

5. Central New York: Oneida, Montgomery, Madison, Schoharie, Otsego, Chenango, and Broome Counties

6. Thousand Island Region: Jefferson, Oswego, and St. Lawrence Counties

7. Finger Lakes Region: Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, Livingston, Yates, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Cortland, Tompkins, Schuyler, Steuben, Chemung and Tioga Counties.

8. Niagara Region: Niagara, Orleans, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming Counties

9. Chautauqua-Alleghany Region: Chatauqua, Alleghany and Cattaraugus Counties

10. Long Island: Suffolk and Nassau Counties

11. and last but certainly not least NYC, Manhattan and Brooklyn, (Kings County) Queens (Queens County) Bronx (Bronx County) Staten Island (Richmond County)

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