Where does NY really turn in upstate NY :)
 

I live in "upstate" and it drives me crazy when people think two hours north of NYC is upstate. It's like central NY, which calls itself that, is actually more northern than what many odd folks refer to as upstate. True upstate, to me, is anywhere within a 60 mile drive to the border of Canada.

Uh, OK.

We all have our crosses to bear.

Yo anything north of the GWB is Upstate

Anything north of Bloomingdale's is upstate to me.

dear 5 minutes: Hang in there - you're in my thoughts & prayers.

That's funny, I generally find that people from the OP's part of the state refer to that area as the "North Country." To think that someone would consider a place like Saratoga to be "downstate" seems a little odd.<BR><BR>This question has been discussed many times before on this site and consensus has been that "upstate" starts somewhere north of Westchester and Rockland Counties in the Hudson Valley.

You mean upstate doesn't begin with Westchester?

If you are in NYC, then north of there would be Up, NO?<BR>And don't let this drive you crazy, there are soooo many things going on in this world that are worthy of going crazy.<BR>and this is really not one of them.

Al:<BR><BR>There is no way that cities like Yonkers could possibly be considered "upstate." <BR><BR>BuffaloBill

Westchester is upstate. And so is everything North of it. Now lets talk about Long Island - Brooklyn and Queens are actually located on Long Island but are not considered Long Island.

What a question, if 5mins doesn't know where upstate NY begins, who really cares and I love upstate NY.

Y'all're a bunch of damn Yankees irregardless.

I always thought of upstate to start around Orange County or around the Harriman toll booth. If you live below the Harriman toll, you can commute to Manhattan and while you can if you live above Harriman its still a long commute but you live upstate :)

The part of the Bronx River Parkway where the tall buildings disappear and the trees and mountains take over.

Besides 5min<BR>Does anyone really care???????????????

This is such a wonderful and compelling topic.<BR><BR>I think its starts in the Catskills.

Albany NY

probably around Binghamton

Ulster County for sure

anywhere above 125th street in Manhattan is upstate

A New Yorker is either from Staten Island, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island or "upstate".

Upstate NY is north of the mason dixen line

You would think we wouldn't have to be subjected to such mindless bs. But I guess when you have some UPPISH person from UPSTATE? NY who for no other reason I can see than to claim some sort of UPWARD mobility or UPPERCLASS status by posting this. Do you want to UPSET someone? All it does to me is make me want to UPCHUCK. I guess you have to have some sort of strange UPBRINGING to be UPSET about whether or not you are UPSTATE. By the way I'm from Loon Lake, NY which is 80 miles from Canada; i guess I'm not UPSTATE! You know what, I don't really give a damn so quite simply UP yours.

Wow, sensitive people! I'm from ROCHESTER, which I used to call upstate (it IS north of NY), until some NYC people told me I was too far away to be considered upstate. Anyway, lighten up about it!!

Dear My,<BR>I agree.There will always be someone or someplace more UPper than anothers so only those with lots of anxiety about their place in the one UPmanship of being more UPPer than the next would get so UPset over this.<BR> Would being from LOON Lake have anything to do with your post?<BR> Or are the Loons the most Upper birds in the state?<BR>Sincerely yours,<BR>Ms Caroline Upyourstoo

I would have to say Westchester can not be considered Upstate. Anything North of the County should be regarded as so.

I'm pretty sure that Loon Lake is in the Adirondacks, but since that's more than 50 miles out of the Big Apple, you've not been there. Just stay in your cocoon, we're fine without you.

What a bunch of angry, pathetic jerks responding to this. What? Life is not turning out the way you had hoped? Upstate seems to me anything after Orange County/Ulster. Is that so hard for people to answer? Jerks.

To My: You left out being UPPITY.