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New York
New York (pronounced /nuː ˈjɔrk/ ( listen)) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has...
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AMEX
NYSE Amex Equities, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) is an American stock exchange situated in New York. AMEX was a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953 it was known as the New York Curb Exchange. On January 17,...
The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the Five Boroughs of New York City. It is also the newest of the 62 counties of New York State. Located northeast of Manhattan and south of Westchester County, New York, the Bronx is the only borough situated...
Area:
- 148.74302 km² (57.43 mi² )
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Buffalo
Buffalo (pronounced /ˈbʌfəloʊ/) is the second most populous city in the state of New York, second only to New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal...
Area:
- 135.97438 km² (52.5 mi² )
Time zone(s):
Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Lake (pronounced /keɪˈjuːɡə/ or /kaɪˈjuːɡə/) is the longest of western New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the largest in surface area (marginally larger than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume . It is just under 40 miles (64 km)...
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Standing at 319 metres (1,047 ft), it was the world's tallest...
Area:
- 0.00769 km² (0.0029689 mi² )
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest...
Area:
- 0.00809 km² (0.0031251 mi² )
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is an artificial waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. First proposed in 1808, it was...
Area:
- 0.6799 km² (0.2625 mi² )
Ithaca
The city of Ithaca, (named for the Greek island of Ithaca), sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York, USA. It is best known for being home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school with almost 20,000 students (most of them...
Area:
- 15.79893 km² (6.1 mi² )
Time zone(s):
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs (Queens and Brooklyn) of New York City, and...
NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar value of its listed companies' securities. As of...
Seneca Lake
Seneca Lake is the largest of the glacial Finger Lakes of the U.S. state of New York. It is promoted as being the lake trout capital of the world, and is host of the National Lake Trout Derby. Because of its depth, Seneca Lake has been a testing...
Syracuse
Syracuse (locally pronounced /ˈsɛrəkjuːs or ˈsɪrəkjuːs/, generally /ˈsɪrəkjuːs/ by non-natives) is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2000 census, the city...
Area:
- 66.3037 km² (25.6 mi² )
Time zone(s):
Shea Stadium
William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea (pronounced /ˈʃeɪ/), was a stadium located in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. It was the home baseball park of Major League...
United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy at West Point (also known as USMA, West Point, or Army) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. Established in 1802, USMA is the oldest of the United States's five...
Area:
- 10.1175 km² (3.90639 mi² )
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known colloquially as The Met, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, USA. It has a permanent collection containing more than two million...
Area:
- 0.17402 km² (0.06719 mi² )
Central Park
Central Park is a large public, urban park that occupies over a square mile (341 hectares) in the heart of Manhattan in New York City. It is host to approximately twenty-five million visitors each year. Central Park was opened in 1859, completed in...
Area:
- 3.39948 km² (1.31255 mi² )
Hotel Chelsea
The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists, musicians and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City. It is located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
Built in 1883, the hotel originally...
Manhattan
Manhattan is the smallest in area and most urbanized of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original...
Area:
- 87.4639 km² (33.77 mi² )
Queens
Queens is the largest in area, the second largest in population, and the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States.
Located on...
Area:
- 461.74308 km² (178.28 mi² )
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century fort built at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States. It was constructed by the French between 1754 and 1757 during the Seven Years'...
Area:
- 88.8285 km² (34.2969 mi² )
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretching 5,989 feet (1825 m) over the East River, connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Upon completion in 1883, it was the longest...
Area:
- 0.08094 km² (0.031251 mi² )
Westchester County
Westchester County is a primarily suburban county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of 450 square miles and has a diverse population of approximately 950,000, residing in 45 municipalities. It was named after Chester,...
Area:
- 1,294.99406 km² (500 mi² )
Nassau County
Nassau County is a suburban county in the New York Metropolitan Area east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,334,544. The name of the county comes from an old name for Long Island, which was...
Area:
- 1,173.26461 km² (453 mi² )
Groton
Groton is a town in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The population was 5,794 at the 2000 census. The name is from a location in New England.The Town of Groton contains a village, also called Groton. The town is in the northeast corner of...
Dutchess County
Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2000 census lists the population as 280,150, but the United States Census Bureau gives an estimate of 292,706 residents for...
Area:
- 2,136.74019 km² (825 mi² )
Albany County
Albany County is a county located in the state of New York, and is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is from the title of the Duke of York and Albany, who became James II of England. As of the 2000 census,...
Area:
- 1,380.46366 km² (533 mi² )
Montgomery County
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec. The county seat is Fonda.
For the history of Montgomery...
Area:
- 1,061.89513 km² (410 mi² )
Washington County
Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population was 61,042. It was named for the Revolutionary War general (and later...
Area:
- 2,191.12994 km² (846 mi² )
Albany
Albany is a city in the United States of America; it is the capital of the state of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany is roughly 136 miles (219 km) north of the city of New York, and slightly south of the confluence of the Mohawk...
Area:
- 56.46174 km² (21.8 mi² )
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Allegany County
Allegany County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 49,927. Its name derives from a Delaware Indian word, applied by settlers of Western New York State to a trail that followed the Allegany ...
Area:
- 2,678.04771 km² (1034 mi² )
Broome County
Broome County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 200,536. It was named in honor of John Broome, who was lieutenant governor in 1806 when Broome County was established. Its county seat is...
Area:
- 1,851.8415 km² (715 mi² )
Cattaraugus County
Cattaraugus County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 83,955. The county seat is Little Valley.
When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Cattaraugus County was...
Area:
- 3,392.88442 km² (1310 mi² )
Cayuga County
Cayuga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was named for one of the tribes of Indians in the Iroquois Confederation. Its county seat is Auburn.
When counties were established in the Province of New York in 1683, the present...
Area:
- 2,237.74973 km² (864 mi² )
Chautauqua County
Chautauqua County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 139,750. Its name may be a contraction of a Seneca Indian word meaning "bag tied in the middle". Its county seat is Mayville.
Chautauqua...
Area:
- 3,884.98217 km² (1500 mi² )
Suffolk County
Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,419,369. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came....
Area:
- 6,146.04179 km² (2373 mi² )
Clinton County
Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 79,894. Its name is in honor of the first Governor of New York as a state, George Clinton. Its county seat is Plattsburgh.
When counties were...
Area:
- 2,895.60671 km² (1118 mi² )
Chenango County
Chenango County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 51,401. The county's name originates from an Oneida word meaning "large bull-thistle." Its county seat is Norwich.
When counties were...
Area:
- 2,328.01081 km² (898.85 mi² )
Chemung County
Chemung County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Chemung County. As of the 2000 census, the population was 91,070. Its name is derived from...
Area:
- 1,063.99302 km² (410.81 mi² )
Belmont
Belmont is a village within the Town of Amity which is in Allegany County, New York, USA. Belmont is the county seat of Allegany County. The population was 952 at the 2000 census. The name means beautiful hills.
The Village of Belmont is centrally...
Area:
- 2.58999 km² (1 mi² )
Time zone(s):
Cortland County
Cortland County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, named after Pierre Van Cortlandt, president of the convention at Kingston that wrote the first New York State Constitution in 1777, and first lieutenant governor of the state. The...
Area:
- 1,300.17403 km² (502 mi² )
Columbia County
Columbia County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 63,094. The county seat is Hudson. The name comes from the Latin feminine form of the name of Christopher Columbus, which was at the time of...
Area:
- 1,678.3123 km² (648 mi² )
Delaware County
Delaware County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2000 the population 48,055. The county seat is Delhi. It is named after the Delaware River, which was named in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, appointed governor of...
Area:
- 3,802.10255 km² (1468 mi² )
Erie County
County of Erie, commonly referred to as Erie County, is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 950,265. The county seat is Buffalo. The county's name comes from Lake Erie, which in turn comes from...
Area:
- 3,177.91541 km² (1227 mi² )
Essex County
Essex County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 38,851. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Its county seat is Elizabethtown. Along with Hamilton County, Essex is entirely within...
Area:
- 4,962.41722 km² (1916 mi² )
Franklin County
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 51,134. It is named in honor of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Its county seat is Malone.
Much of Franklin County is within the...
Area:
- 4,395.20982 km² (1697 mi² )
Fulton County
Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 55,073. Its name is in honor of Robert Fulton, who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. Its county...
Area:
- 1,380.46366 km² (533 mi² )
Genesee County
Genesee County is a county located in Western New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 60,370. Its name is from the Seneca Indian word Gen-nis'-hee-yo meaning "The Beautiful Valley." Its county seat is Batavia.
County pre...
Area:
- 1,282.04411 km² (495 mi² )
Greene County
Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general, Nathanael Greene. Its county seat is Catskill.
On March 25, 1800, Greene County was created by the partitioning of...
Area:
- 1,704.21218 km² (658 mi² )
Hamilton County
Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is named after Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United States Secretary...
Area:
- 4,682.6985 km² (1808 mi² )
Warren County
Warren County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population was 63,303. It is named in honor of General Joseph Warren, killed at the Battle of...
Area:
- 2,413.86892 km² (932 mi² )
Rensselaer County
Rensselaer County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 152,538. Its name is in honor of the family of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the original Dutch owner of the land in the area. Its county seat is Troy....
Area:
- 1,722.34209 km² (665 mi² )
Putnam County
Putnam County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the lower Hudson River Valley. Putnam county formed in 1812, when it detached from Dutchess County. As of 2004, the population was 100,570. It is part of the New York Metropolitan...
Area:
- 637.13708 km² (246 mi² )
Jefferson County
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 111,738. It is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, and president at the time the county was...
Area:
- 4,809.60792 km² (1857 mi² )
Herkimer County
Herkimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was created in 1791 out of part of Montgomery County. As of the 2000 census, the population was 64,427. It is named after General Nicholas Herkimer, who died from battle wounds in...
Area:
- 3,776.20266 km² (1458 mi² )
Lewis County
Lewis County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 26,944. It is named after Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York when the county was established. Its county seat is Lowville.
When counties were...
Area:
- 3,341.08466 km² (1290 mi² )
Livingston County
Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 64,328. It is named after Robert R. Livingston, delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the...
Area:
- 1,657.59239 km² (640 mi² )
Madison County
Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 69,441. It is named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is Wampsville.
Madison County is...
Area:
- 1,714.57213 km² (662 mi² )
Monroe County
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 735,343. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the city of Rochester.
Monroe...
Area:
- 3,537.92376 km² (1366 mi² )
Ontario County
Ontario County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. The county seat is the City of Canandaigua. The population of Ontario County in the 2000 census was 100,224, up from 95,101 at the 1990 census.
Ontario County is part of the Rochester...
Area:
- 1,714.57213 km² (662 mi² )
Niagara County
Niagara County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 219,846. The county seat is Lockport. The county name is from the Indian word Onguiaahra;meaning the straight or thunder of waters. It is the...
Area:
- 2,952.58645 km² (1140 mi² )
