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New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original thirteen colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.54 million residents in 2018, it is the fourth most populous state. In order to distinguish the state from the city with the same name, it is sometimes referred to as New York State.

The state's most populous city, New York City, makes up over 40% of the state's population. Two-thirds of the state's population lives in the New York metropolitan area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. The state and city were both named for the 17th century Duke of York, the future King James II of England. With an estimated population of 8.62 million in 2017, New York City is the most populous city in the United States and the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous in the world. New York City is a global city, home to the United Nations Headquarters and has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, as well as the world's most economically powerful city. The next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany.

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Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall, located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, on the north side of Kaaterskill Clove, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County's Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York, and one of the Eastern United States' taller waterfalls.

The falls are one of America's oldest tourist attractions, and appear in some of the most prominent books, essays, poems and paintings of the early 19th century. Long before Alexis de Tocqueville's famous essay on America, Kaaterskill Falls was lauded as a place where a traveler could see a wilder image, a sort of primeval Eden. Beginning with Thomas Cole's first visit in 1825, they became an iconic subject for painters of the Hudson River School, setting the wilderness ideal for American landscape painting. The Falls also inspired "Catterskill Falls", a poem by William Cullen Bryant. The falls, like the clove and creek with which they share a name, are a relatively recent addition to the Catskills in geologic time. They evolved through stream capture at the end of the Illinoian Stage, when runoff from the glacial melt that created North-South Lake began to flow away from the nearby headwaters of Schoharie Creek and down the steep slopes of the newly created clove. The rushing waters of what would become known as Spruce Creek eroded a natural amphitheater at roughly 2,000 feet (609 m) on the south slope of South Mountain.

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1800 map of New York from Low's Encyclopaedia
The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement.
New York was dominated by Iroquoian (purple) and Algonquian (pink) Indian tribes.
Lake-effect snow is a major contributor to heavy snowfall totals in western New York, including the Tug Hill region.
The New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization of its listed companies.
Flight 175 hit the original South Tower on September 11, 2001.
1800 map of New York from Low's Encyclopaedia
Flooding on Avenue C in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy
New York and neighboring jurisdictions in 1777
British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777.
The New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization of its listed companies.
Ellis Island in 1905
Kirsten Gillibrand (left) and Chuck Schumer (right) are New York's U.S. Senators.
The New York State Capitol in Albany
New Amsterdam, present-day Lower Manhattan, 1660
New York population distribution map
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals.
The New York State Capitol in Albany
New Amsterdam, present-day Lower Manhattan, 1660
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
New York population distribution map
The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement.
The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York in 1839
Lake-effect snow is a major contributor to heavy snowfall totals in western New York, including the Tug Hill region.
The New York City Subway is one of the world's busiest, serving a passenger ridership of over 5 million per average weekday.
Terrain map of New York
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals.
Ellis Island in 1905
Two major state parks (in green) are the Adirondack Park (north) and the Catskill Park (south).
The New York City Subway is one of the world's busiest, serving a passenger ridership of over 5 million per average weekday.
Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, hub of the Broadway theater district, a media center, and one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections.
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, hub of the Broadway theater district, a media center, and one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections.
Enveloped by the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound, New York City and Long Island alone are home to approximately 11 million residents conjointly.
The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York in 1839
British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777.
Andrew Cuomo (D), the 56th and current Governor of New York
Two major state parks (in green) are the Adirondack Park (north) and the Catskill Park (south).
Kirsten Gillibrand (left) and Chuck Schumer (right) are New York's U.S. Senators.
Flooding on Avenue C in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy
Terrain map of New York
Map of the counties in New York
Enveloped by the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound, New York City and Long Island alone are home to approximately 11 million residents conjointly.
Flight 175 hit the original South Tower on September 11, 2001.
New York was dominated by Iroquoian (purple) and Algonquian (pink) Indian tribes.
Andrew Cuomo (D), the 56th and current Governor of New York
Map of the counties in New York
New York and neighboring jurisdictions in 1777

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Ruth Atkinson Ford, born Ruth Atkinson (June 2, 1918 – May 31, June 1, or June 15, 1997) was a pioneering female cartoonist and comic book artist, raised in New York, who helped create the long-running Marvel Comics characters Millie the Model and Patsy Walker.
Kevin Burns (born June 18, 1955 in Schenectady, New York) is an Emmy Award-winning American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter.
Francis Marion McDowell (June 12, 1831 in Wayne, New York – March 22, 1894) was an American banker and farmer and a co-founder of the National Grange.

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Willis “Will” Stephens Jr. (born 1955) was a politician who represented the 99th District in the New York State Assembly. After serving in the Assembly for twelve years, Stephens was defeated in the September 2006 Primary by Assemblyman Greg Ball and lost the Republican nomination. He was one of only three Republicans in the Assembly to be endorsed by Planned Parenthood.

Assemblyman Stephens represented the 99th District of New York which encompasses the municipalities of Patterson, Mahopac, Carmel, Southeast, Putnam Lake, and Brewster, in Putnam County; Yorktown, Lake Mohegan, Somers, and North Salem in Westchester County; and Pawling in Duchess County. His family held the seat nearly continuously for eighty years: his grandfather, D. Mallory Stephens, held this seat from 1926 to 1952; his father, Willis Stephens Sr., held the seat from 1952 to 1982; and Stephens himself served from 1994 to 2006. Stephens is a member of the law firm of Stephens and Charbonneau, in Brewster, New York. He was awarded a Juris Doctor degree from St. John's University school of Law in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1977.

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Nicknames: The Empire State, The Excelsior State
Capital: Albany
Governor: Andrew Cuomo (D)
Lieutenant Governor: Kathy Hochul (D)
Secretary of State: Rossana Rosado (D)
Attorney General: Letitia James (D)

Senators: Chuck Schumer (D), Kirsten Gillibrand (D)
Representatives: Lee Zeldin (R), Peter King (R), Thomas Suozzi (D), Kathleen Rice (D), Gregory Meeks (D), Grace Meng (D), Nydia Velázquez (D), Hakeem Jeffries (D), Yvette Clarke (D), Jerry Nadler (D), Max Rose (D), Carolyn Maloney (D), Adriano Espaillat (D), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D), José Serrano (D), Eliot Engel (D), Nita Lowey (D), Sean Maloney (D), Antonio Delgado (D), Paul Tonko (D), Elise Stefanik (R), Anthony Brindisi (D), Tom Reed (R), John Katko (R), Joseph Morelle (D), Brian Higgins (D), Chris Collins (R),

Total area: 54,555 mi²
- Land: 47,190 mi²
- Water: 7,365 mi²
Highest elevation: 5,344 ft (Mount Marcy)

Population 19,745,289 (2016 est)
Admission to the Union: July 26, 1788 (11^th)

State symbols:

Animal: Beaver
Bird: Eastern Bluebird
Colors: Blue & Gold
Freshwater Fish: Brook trout
Saltwater Fish: Striped bass
Flower: Rose
Fossil: Eurypterus remipes
Insect: Nine-spotted Ladybug
Songs: "I Love New York"
Tree: Sugar Maple
Gem: Garnet

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...that in 1813, British forces set up a camp on the land of Richard Beasley, causing considerable damage to his property?
...that the Ma-Yi Theater Company had not intended for it to be started as an Asian American theatre, but it eventually remained so after its first plays were Filipino and Filipino-American?
...that the New York City Police Department, which was established in 1845, is the current largest police force in North America?

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"New York: A third-rate Babylon."

— H. L. Mencken

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View of Troy (specifically Lansingburgh) from Oakwood Cemetery

Credit: UpstateNYer

Troy is a city on the east bank of the Hudson River located a few miles north of the capital, Albany. Settled in 1707, Troy was incorporated as a village in 1787, as a town in 1791, and finally as a city in 1816. This photo is of Lansingburgh, an area of North Troy, which was founded as a separate town, but incorporated into the city of Troy in 1900. Troy is known as the "Collar City" for being a manufacturing center for shirts, shirtwaists, collars, and cuffs in the late 1800s. This photo is taken from Oakwood Cemetery, burial place of Sam Wilson, the origin of Uncle Sam.

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Alpha Phi Alpha • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Grover Cleveland • Hurricane Floyd • Mariah Carey • Moe Berg • New York City • New York State Route 28 • New York State Route 32 • New York State Route 174 • New York State Route 175 • Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York) • Sandy Koufax • Stuyvesant High School • Theodore Roosevelt

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11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment • 50 Cent • Casey Donovan (porn star) • Central Troy Historic District • Chrysler Building • Dick Rifenburg • Empire State • Gilbert Perreault • Gowanus Canal • Gregory R. Ball • Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame • Héctor López • Jack Kemp • Jeff Goodwin • Johnston de Peyster • Joseph Hazelwood • Lafayette Square, Buffalo • Manhattan • New York's 20th congressional district special election, 2009 • New York University • Port of Albany-Rensselaer • Port Authority of New York and New Jersey • Ralph Bakshi • Seymour H. Knox I • The CIA and September 11 (book) • The French Connection (hockey) • Wall Street

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