Portal:New York (state)

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York, and one of the smallest in the United States. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan is centrally located in the Northeast megalopolis and represents the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's economic and administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world.

Before European colonization, present-day Manhattan was part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonists in 1624 on Manhattan Island; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory came under English control in 1664 and was renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York, based in present-day Lower Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor greeted millions of arriving immigrants in the late 19th century and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals. Manhattan became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898, and houses New York City Hall, the seat of the city's government. Harlem in Upper Manhattan became the center of what is now known as the cultural Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, part of the Stonewall National Monument, is considered the birthplace in 1969 of the modern gay-rights movement, cementing Manhattan's central role in LGBTQ culture. Lower Manhattan was the site of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed during the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. (Full article...)

Ithaca (/ˈɪθəkə/) is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. With a population of 32,108 as of the 2020 census, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area, which includes all 103,558 residents of Tompkins County, of which it is the county seat. The city is named after the Greek island of Ithaca, home of the protagonist Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.

Ithaca is a college town best known for hosting Cornell University, an Ivy League university founded in 1865, as well as Ithaca College. Until the late 18th century, present-day Ithaca was inhabited by the Cayuga people of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. In 1789, the federal and state governments began granting land in the area, known as the Central New York Military Tract, to compensate veterans of the American Revolutionary War. Located in the township of Ulysses, or Tract 22, Ithaca was populated by white settlers in 1794 and formally established in 1821. (Full article...)

The Battle of Valcour Island, also known as the Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement that took place on October 11, 1776, on Lake Champlain. The main action took place in Valcour Bay, a narrow strait between the New York mainland and Valcour Island. The battle is generally regarded as one of the first naval battles of the American Revolutionary War, and one of the first fought by the Continental Navy. Most of the ships in the American fleet under the command of Benedict Arnold were captured or destroyed by a British force under the overall direction of General Guy Carleton. However, the American defense of Lake Champlain stalled British plans to reach the upper Hudson River valley.

The Continental Army had retreated from Quebec to Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point in June 1776 after British forces were massively reinforced. They spent the summer of 1776 fortifying those forts and building additional ships to augment the small American fleet already on the lake. Carleton had a 9,000 man army at Fort Saint-Jean, but needed to build a fleet to carry it on the lake. The Americans, during their retreat, had either taken or destroyed most of the ships on the lake. By early October, the British fleet, which significantly outgunned the American fleet, was ready for launch. (Full article...)

Agriculture is a driving force in the economy of upstate New York and New York in general. 35,600 farms occupy 7.55 million acres (31,000 km²), which makes up about 25 percent of the land in the state. Farms in New York produced $3.4 billion in agricultural products in 2001 and New York is the largest producer of cabbage in the United States. New York is an agricultural leader and is one of the top five states in the production of such agricultural products as dairy, apples, cherries, cabbages, potatoes, onions, and maple syrup. This example is a dairy farm in Brunswick, Rensselaer County.

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• ...that the One HSBC Center in Buffalo, New York was formerly known as the Marine Midland Center, but changed its name when HSBC rebranded the bank to HSBC Bank USA?
• ...that 1 William Street was designated as a New York landmark in 1996 by the New York City Landmark's Preservation Commission?
• ...that the former Catskill Mountain House was visited by three U.S Presidents; U.S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt?

• Murder of Grace Brown (March 20, 1886 – July 11, 1906) was the murder of a New York-raised American skirt factory worker and became the basis of Roberta Alden, a character from the novel An American Tragedy.
• Billy Collins (March 22, 1941) is an American poet who has previously been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and New York State Poet for 2004.
• Arent S. Crowninshield (March 14, 1843 - 1908) was an admiral of the United States Navy.
• Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was a Democratic Party politician from New York who served as the Governor of New York from 1933 until 1942.