Western NY - let's say Erie, Niagara, Catarraugus, Chatauqua...If you are only 50 miles from Albany, I know there is an active chapter (headquarters) there.
Yes, I have been in contact a number of times with the Albany group.
Good luck with western NY, and please tell your pro-life friends to contact their assemblypersons to stop this cloning/ESC madness in NYS.