The Definitive Solution to the Upstate NY Question

[Brownski]

First of all, this thread belongs right here. Let’s not get all moderator’y about it. Now I have spent (wasted) a lot of time pondering this. I’ve listened to a lot of different points of view and as far as I can tell, the line between upstate and downstate goes from the western border of Rockland County, along the eastern/southern edge of Harriman/Bear Mountain Parks, across the Bear Mountain Mountain Bridge, south of Camp Smith, northern border of Peekskill to the Taconic and then along Route 6 until it bears north and more or less east from there to the CT border. Or thereabouts.

 

[Ripitz]

I agree, the Bear Mountain Bridge is a logical delineation. What about the Upstate of mind?

 

[rebel1916]

Depending on how I feel it is either the northern border of Yonkers or Woodbury Commons.

 

[Peter Minde]

Upstate is not necessarily the North Country tho.

 

[Brownski]

Upstate is not necessarily the North Country tho.

Whut?

 

[rebel1916]

Upstate is not necessarily the North Country tho.

The North Country is definitely different then generic upstate

 

[trackbiker]

Not being from NY I would propose that the Upstate is anything in NY outside of this map.
NY Metropilitan Area Map

 

[XTski]

North coun

Upstate is not necessarily the North Country tho.

right, the north country is north of Albany

 

[Warp daddy]

Nope the ""REAL NORTH COUNTRY IS THE EIGHT Northern most counties ( Clinton, Franklin , Essex, Hamilton, St Lawrence , Jefferson Lewis and Warren ) the natives here all call this area "THE North Country " not by any county name it IS A THING ???

To add to your Deposit of Knowledge BSki :

We woodchucks know that the other parts of the state are called NYC and the great region called TILNOW
( there IS Life North Of Westchester) ?

 

[MarzNC]

Not being from NY I would propose that the Upstate is anything in NY outside of this map.
NY Metropilitan Area Map

That's more or less the way I felt growing up in NYC. Anything north of Bear Mountain or my summer camp in Rhinebeck, NY was "upstate." Although the Finger Lakes region where I went to camp later on was another region completely and unrelated to "upstate." Guess because it was south of the NY Turnpike to the west of Albany.