Where exactly is upstate New York

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09/14/2025 19:32

Subject: Re:Where exactly is upstate New York

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Syracuse which is technically central NY. When you say you grew up in NY, people usually think NYC, it's just easier to say upstate NY to indicate not NYC.

So would a town 50 miles outside of NYC be considered upstate NY?

Probably, if it’s not on Long Island.

People from Long Island don't admit they are from New York (state or city). Ask them where they are from and it is always "The Island" or "Long Island".

I've never heard this at all and I'm from NYC and spent considerable time on Long Island. You think Long Islanders dont consider themselves New Yorkers? Bizarre take. If anything they could be accused of posturing they're from the city but this comment and the one saying LI is part of "upstate NY" are wildly off.

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09/14/2025 20:21

Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York

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My dad is from Binghamton. He has always told people he is from “upstate NY.”

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09/14/2025 20:45

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I think of it as everything outside of the city, Long Island, and the commuter suburbs of Westchester and Rockland County.

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09/14/2025 20:48

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Anonymous wrote:As a native on NYC, yes, it’s anything north of Westchester County.

This is the only correct answer.

Wrong. Other people from Nys laugh when we say we are going ‘upstate’ to Woodstock. That’s downstate to most of NY

Yeah, all 50 of you.

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09/14/2025 20:49

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Anonymous wrote:My dad is from Binghamton. He has always told people he is from “upstate NY.”

As he was. Johnson City.

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09/15/2025 02:20

Subject: Re:Where exactly is upstate New York

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Syracuse which is technically central NY. When you say you grew up in NY, people usually think NYC, it's just easier to say upstate NY to indicate not NYC.

+1, Rochester native and I always said I was from upstate NY so that people wouldn’t assume I was from the NYC area. Western NY also works but I always went with upstate. If people asked where upstate, then I’d say western NY.

+1. Also a Rochester native and I do the same, haha. IME "western NY" is more of a regional term that doesn't necessarily mean anything to someone from CA, for example.