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New York, sometimes called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States. One of the Mid-Atlantic states, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, New England, Canada and the Great Lakes. With almost 19.6 million residents, it is the fourth-most populous state in the United States and eighth-most densely populated as of 2023. New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area, with a total area of 54,556 square miles (141,300 km²).

New York has a varied geography. The southeastern part of the state, known as Downstate, encompasses New York City, the most populous city in the United States, with over twice the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest city; Long Island, the nation's most populous island; and the suburbs and wealthy enclaves of the lower Hudson Valley. These areas are the center of the New York metropolitan area, a sprawling urban landmass, and account for approximately two-thirds of the state's population. The much larger Upstate area spreads from the Great Lakes to Lake Champlain, and includes the Adirondack Mountains and the Catskill Mountains (part of the wider Appalachian Mountains). The east–west Mohawk River Valley bisects the more mountainous regions of Upstate, and flows into the north–south Hudson River valley near the state capital of Albany. Western New York, home to the cities of Buffalo and Rochester, is part of the Great Lakes region and borders Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Central New York is anchored by the city of Syracuse; between the central and western parts of the state, New York is dominated by the Finger Lakes, a popular tourist destination. To the south, along the state border with Pennsylvania, the Southern Tier sits atop the Allegheny Plateau, representing the northernmost reaches of Appalachia.

New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that went on to form the United States. The area of present-day New York had been inhabited by tribes of the Algonquians and the Iroquois Confederacy Native Americans for several thousand years by the time the earliest Europeans arrived. Stemming from Henry Hudson's expedition in 1609, the Dutch established the multiethnic colony of New Netherland in 1621. England seized the colony from the Dutch in 1664, renaming it the Province of New York. During the American Revolutionary War, a group of colonists eventually succeeded in establishing independence, and the state ratified the then new United States Constitution in 1788. From the early 19th century, New York's development of its interior, beginning with the construction of the Erie Canal, gave it incomparable advantages over other regions of the United States. The state built its political, cultural, and economic ascendancy over the next century, earning it the nickname of the "Empire State." Although deindustrialization eroded a portion of the state's economy in the second half of the 20th century, New York in the 21st century continues to be considered as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability. (Full article...)

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The Telluride House, formally the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association (CBTA), and commonly referred to as just "Telluride", is a highly selective residential community of Cornell University students and faculty. Founded in 1910 by American industrialist L. L. Nunn, the house grants room and board scholarships to a number of undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and faculty members affiliated with the university's various colleges and programs. A fully residential intellectual society, the Telluride House takes as its pillars democratic self-governance, communal living and intellectual inquiry. Students granted the house's scholarship are known as Telluride Scholars.

The Telluride House is considered the first program of the educational non-profit Telluride Association, which was founded a year after the house was built and was first led by the Smithsonian Institution’s fourth Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott. Nunn went on to found Deep Springs College in 1917. The Telluride Association founded and maintained other branches thereafter, two of which—at Cornell University and at the University of Michigan—are still active. The Association also runs free selective programs for high school students, including the Telluride Association Summer Program. (Full article...)

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Minnelli in 1973

Liza May Minnelli (/ˈlaɪzə/ LY-zə; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli has received numerous accolades, and is one of the few performers awarded a non-competitive EGOT. Minnelli is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

Minnelli's parents were actress and singer Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. After moving to New York City in 1961, she began her career as a musical theatre actress, nightclub performer, and traditional pop artist. She made her professional stage debut in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward and received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for starring in Flora the Red Menace in 1965, which marked the start of her lifelong collaboration with John Kander and Fred Ebb. They wrote, produced or directed many of Minnelli's future stage acts and television series and helped create her stage persona of a stylized survivor, including her career-defining performances of anthems of survival ("New York, New York", "Cabaret", and "Maybe This Time"). Along with her roles on stage and screen, this persona and her style of performance contributed to Minnelli's status as an enduring gay icon. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center (from Culture of New York City)
Image 2New York was dominated by Iroquoian (green) and Algonquian (red) Indian tribes.
Image 3A historical juxtaposition: a replica of Henry Hudson's 17th-century Halve Maen passes modern-day lower Manhattan where the original ship would have sailed while investigating New York Harbor. (from History of New York (state))
Image 4New York State Theater (from Culture of New York City)
Image 5Langston Hughes was part of the Harlem Renaissance that flourished in the 1920s. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 6Map of the Province of New York. (from History of New York (state))
Image 7Flooding on Avenue C in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy. (from History of New York (state))
Image 8Theodore Roosevelt (from History of New York (state))
Image 9A Phoenix rises to new life at the Village Halloween Parade fifty days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (from Culture of New York City)
Image 10United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. (from History of New York (state))
Image 11A frameworker tightens bolts on the Empire State Building in 1930; the recently completed Chrysler Building is seen in the background. (from History of New York (state))
Image 12John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne stylizes the American win at Saratoga. (from History of New York (state))
Image 13Street vendors at the Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan's Little Italy (from Culture of New York City)
Image 14A crowd in Times Square awaits the countdown to the start of 2006. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 15The Stadt Huys in Albany became the state's seat of government when Albany became the permanent capitol in 1797. (from History of New York (state))
Image 16Martin Scorsese at the Tribeca Film Festival (from Culture of New York City)
Image 17The West Indian Labor Day Parade is an annual carnival along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 18Companies such as Eastman Kodak (Rochester headquarters pictured ca. 1900) epitomized New York's manufacturing economy in the late 19th century. (from History of New York (state))
Image 19The Yoshio Taniguchi building at the Museum of Modern Art (from Culture of New York City)
Image 20SUR by Xefirotarch at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens (from Culture of New York City)

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I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

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Section G-4 of Oakwood Cemetery, overlooking Sections G-3 and H-1

Oakwood Cemetery is a nonsectarian rural cemetery in northeastern Troy, New York, United States. It operates under the direction of the Troy Cemetery Association, a non-profit board of directors that deals strictly with the operation of the cemetery. It was established in 1848 in response to the growing rural cemetery movement in New England and went into service in 1850. The cemetery was designed by architect John C. Sidney and underwent its greatest development in the late 19th century under superintendent John Boetcher, who incorporated rare foliage and a clear landscape design strategy. Oakwood was the fourth rural cemetery opened in New York and its governing body was the first rural cemetery association created in the state.

It features four man-made lakes, two residential structures, a chapel, a crematorium, 24 mausolea, and about 60,000 graves, and has about 29 miles (47 km) of roads. It is known both for its dense foliage and rolling lawns, and has historically been used as a public park by Lansingburgh and Troy residents. Oakwood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. (Full article...)

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The high cliffs of Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain in Chesterfield make the peak the "gateway to Adirondacks" for travelers on the adjacent Adirondack Northway and U.S. Route 9. The mountain's unusual name is a corruption of the Algonquin pohquis moosie for "place of smooth broken rocks". Rock and ice climbers regularly scale those cliffs, and hikers are drawn to the views from the historic fire lookout tower on the 2,180-foot (660 m) summit.

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...that the Burt Flickinger Center was originally constructed for the 1993 World University Games, but is now used full-time by the Erie Community College?

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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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Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The Times Square area consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.

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Nicknames: The Empire State, The Excelsior State
Capital: Albany
Governor: Kathy Hochul (D)
Lieutenant Governor: Antonio Delgado (D)
Secretary of State: Robert J. Rodriguez (D)
Attorney General: Letitia James (D)

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)

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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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