Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 19:31     Subject: Re:Where exactly is upstate New York
It's wherever New England is
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 18:59     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NY has three parts:

The City
The Island
Upstate


This!


+2 Born and bred New Yorker here and this is basically how I view things.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 18:56     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:As a native on NYC, yes, it’s anything north of Westchester County.


Orange County weighing in to say: no. North of Kingston is Upstate NY
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 15:47     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:NY has three parts:

The City
The Island
Upstate


This!
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 15:45     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Everything besides Long Island, NYC, and Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 15:00     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anything outside NYC. Those from Long Island will not say upstate New York, fyi


Yes we do, but it’s north of Westchester. We have no natural sense of the geography of anything north of there. Except for college, why would we go?


😂 I see what you did there.





Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 14:59     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
NY has three parts:

The City
The Island
Upstate
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 14:52     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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


How many times has this conversational exchange happened?
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 14:38     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:Anything outside NYC. Those from Long Island will not say upstate New York, fyi


Yes we do, but it’s north of Westchester. We have no natural sense of the geography of anything north of there. Except for college, why would we go?
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 14:13     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Hudson Valley is not upstate; north of Albany is upstate.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 14:10     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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


Except that at least half of the population of NYS live in NYC or LI. Most of NYS has more trees than people.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 14:00     Subject: Re:Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:
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?


No. That’s not far enough.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 13:58     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:
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
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 13:57     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:There is no "exact". It depends who you ask.



This is the only correct answer on here.

If it’s someone from NYC or LI, upstate is anything north of Westchester.

If you’re from hudson valley and around there, it’s Albany and up.

Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 13:21     Subject: Where exactly is upstate New York
Anonymous wrote:As a native on NYC, yes, it’s anything north of Westchester County.


This is the only correct answer.