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Central New York is the central region of New York state, including: Auburn in Cayuga County. Cortland in Cortland County. Oneida in Madison County. Syracuse, the largest city of Central New York, in Onondaga County. Fulton and Oswego in Oswego County. With a population of about 784,283 as of 2020 and an area of 3,715 square miles (9,620 km 2 ...
The Central New York Region [1] (formerly the Central-Leatherstocking Region, also known as Leatherstocking Country) is a term used by the New York State Department of Economic Development to broadly describe the central region of New York for tourism purposes. [2] The region roughly corresponds to the Mohawk and upper Susquehanna valleys.
New York, sometimes called New York State, [b] is a state in the Northeastern United States. One of the Mid-Atlantic states, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, New England, Canada and the Great Lakes. [c] With almost 19.6 million residents, it is the fourth-most populous state in the United States and eighth-most densely populated as of 2023. [5]
Syracuse is a city in Central New York sited on the former lands of the Onondaga Nation. Officially incorporated as a village in 1825, it has been at a major crossroads over the last two centuries, first of the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then on the railway network. The city grew on the back of its salt and chemical industries, and later ...
History of New York (state) A 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. The history of New York begins around 10,000 B.C. when the first people arrived.
Kathleen Hochul ( / ˈhoʊkəl / HOH-kəl; née Courtney; born August 27, 1958) is an American politician and lawyer. Since August 24, 2021, she has served as the 57th governor of New York. [2] A member of the Democratic Party, she is New York's first female governor [3] and the first governor from Upstate New York since Nathan L. Miller in 1920.
Map showing the counties of New York considered part of the "Burned-over District" The term "burned-over district" refers to the western and parts of the central regions of New York State in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place, to such a great extent that spiritual fervor seemed to set the area ...
The towns and cities of Central New York were created by the U.S. state of New York as municipalities in order to give residents more direct say over local government. Central New York (consisting of the Syracuse Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Utica-Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area) is a six county area–Cayuga, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, and Oswego.