New York State is appalachia with New York City attached.
New York City is kept afloat due to the earnings and taxes of a few crony-capitalist Wall Street banks, dealing in debt and Federal Reserve printed money.
I live just south of Olean NY., a friend of mine just developed a drilling site with 15 pads, the property is on the PA/NY State line. His monthly checks were over 400,000.00 until the prices dropped, haven’t heard him piss or moan about the price drop yet.
Shut off the water coming from the hudson valley and NYC dies in 1 day.