odd since most Sh!tty dwellers think UPSTATE starts around Yonkers or White Plains
Posted on 04/09/2018 8:38:59 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Cynthia Nixon's answer to a question that has perplexed New Yorkers for generations is turning heads on social media.
Nixon, the Sex and the City actor challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was asked by The New York Times Magazine where she believes upstate New York begins, a query that regularly sparks fierce debate — and a wide-ranging array of responses — on Twitter and Facebook.
Her answer? Somewhere near Ithaca.
"I don't think the Hudson Valley is upstate," Nixon said, according to the Times. "Once you get to Ithaca, by around there, you're starting to get upstate."
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Yeah man. Glad I was able to enjoy them. Sure wish Garcia had taken better care of himself.
Yes, I do know about this and that’s an OLD picture of Nixon.
The recent ones, in the N.Y. Post shows her sand the fancy dress, makeup, and hairdo done.
She doesn’t have a clue.
Anything outside NYC area.
CNY goes from just east of Rochester to Utica by us Syracuse area inhabitants.
Albany is the Capital District. It's way to far east to be Central NY.
Upstate New York began at 125th street on the
West side and east 96th
When I lived there..
Which one is Nixon?
The one on the left.
My comment is based on a colloquial division of the state into three regions - up, down and central. I think yours is based on more regions or districts including western, capital and north country and hudson valley. But note in that schema there is no region that gets labelled as “upstate” or even “downstate” for that matter.
Or to put it another way, if there are only three choices, then is Albany central new york, or upstate?
That’s a tough one. Geographically, it’s Upstate, but it’s both too far east to be really central and politically it’s certainly downstate.
In CNY lingo, it’s either Upstate or downstate. I think in general, we in WNY and CNY think of anything from Albany and southeast as *downstate* based mostly on political climate and some on geography.
The other designations are then divining Upstate.
Then it’s:
Western NY (out to about Rochester)
Central (Syracuse area AKA Finger Lakes region. Rochester to Syracuse)
Mohawk Valley (Rome-Utica area)
North Country (north of the Thruway from Syracuse east to the state line)
Capitol District (Schenectady to Albany and towards NYC)
Hudson Valley (Albany down to the city)
The Southern Tier which is anything along the PA border from Jamestown through Corning, Binghamton, on to Schenectady.)
FWIW, many of those designations are established by the state and you’ll see signs to that effect along the Thruway.
Anything north of 110th Street.
I was born and raised in the Hudson Valley.
It used to be considered upstate. It was a beautiful and peaceful part of the state many years ago. Republican run.
Cityiots moved in and ruined it by turning it into the hell hole they left behind. When I return to visit relatives, I don’t recognize it.
Binghamton- smokin’,drinkin’ and inbreedin’
More than twenty years ago I took a ride up 9W along the Hudson; couldn’t believe how many Hispanics were in those rust-belt towns back then.
If one discounts the northern foothills (as I do) then you can decide if the finger lakes which are mainly in the zone I picked are fully in the zone then Ithaca is right on the edge at the bottom tip of one of the fingers.
Nixon. Cuomo. SSDD.
I asked mr. mm who is more familiar with state history and politics than I am.
He said that traditionally, *upstate* was anything west of the Hudson River. And NYCer’s considered Albany sort of a detached suburb of NYC.
Upstate is less a place anymore than a state of mind. If you want government the hell off your back and you’re not demanding your neighbors pay for your lifestyle, you’re Upstate. No matter where I go, I’m Upstate.
Albany is NYC’s cesspool.
odd since most Sh!tty dwellers think UPSTATE starts around Yonkers or White Plains
Baldwinsville.
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