![]() In fact, they do their practices at Saint John Fisher College, so it’s easy to feel like a Western New York-er without even leaving Pittsford.īut, what if you don’t watch football? Or, follow Sabres hockey? What if you’d rather spend a Sunday driving through the hillsides of the Finger Lakes tasting a Riesling? There’s a good chance you’ll identify more with the Finger Lakes Region. We don’t have an NFL team in Rochester, so football fans have always claimed the Bills as a hometown favorite. Unless, of course, you were a Buffalo Bills fan. Suddenly, Buffalo seemed kind of….long distance. Western New York had an entire area code! That was stripped of Rochester in 2001 when they created 585. While discussing this with a friend from Rochester, she reminded me that when we were growing up, our phone numbers began with 716, just like Buffalo. How We Think the Upstate Regions Are Divided If you want to start a business in Ithaca that would bring in tourists and you’re seeking a grant of some sort, you’d actually be striking up a conversation with the Southern Tier. More confusing though, is that tourism programs spend money to promote things in the Finger Lakes which Ithaca would no doubt benefit from. Though it kind of unearths an awkward truth about public funds and dividing the state, it gives power to the map from the economic development program. So, even though Ithaca sits perfectly on the southern edge of Cayuga Lake, the funds generated through taxation help support economic programs in the Southern Tier. They’ll determine where the money is coming from and where it needs to be spent. When a program has a fiscal budget they need to determine how best to appropriate that funding. But, when it comes to lake effect snow conditions, that eastern border of Lake Ontario will have similar weather patterns to Buffalo than it will to the Adirondacks. I’m guessing the weather folks at CoCoRaHs would agree that Oswego County isn’t known for chicken wings. Biltucci’s 4th Grade Class website How These Maps ExistĬlearly, there are reasons that each of these groups have drawn their borders. ![]() Surely, if I did some researching, I could easily find out what the defined boundaries were for each region. Utica, New York is located in the _ Region of the state. So, here’s another scientific Twitter poll: Even though many of those gloves were made of leather, Gloversville had nothing to do with the Leatherstocking Region. Gloversville on the bottom edge of the Adirondack Region, was originally put on the map for, you guessed it: glove making. Utica is pretty close to Central New York, but there are plenty of claims to the Mohawk Valley. Rochester, New York is located in the _ Region of the state. Or, they might tell you they’re from the Southern Tier. If you drive south and talk to someone in Corning, they might also identify with the Finger Lakes region. If you did a very scientific poll on Twitter asking what region Rochester is in, you might get Finger Lakes for an answer, or some will say Western New York. What I’ve always found intriguing is the regions in Upstate and how we define them. If they are persistent, they might want to know where in Upstate. ![]() I have to explain, I’m from Upstate New York–nowhere even close to the Five Boroughs. It’s a puzzle that will probably never be resolved and that’s fine.īut, if you’re from New York State and traveling, where do you say that you’re from? As a resident of Rochester, I can tell someone I’m from New York and they ask how close I was to Ground Zero on 9/11. If you talk to someone in Plattsburgh, they might even tell you that they’re so far north that they’re beyond being Upstate. But, if you ask someone who has never left New York City, you’re probably going to find that they think Upstate begins at Stony Point and Syracuse is somewhere in Canada. If you ask someone from the Hudson Valley, they might tell that you Upstate is north of Rockland County. No one can agree on where Upstate New York actually exists. Brooklynites have yelled about it over a coke and a slice. Let’s take a look at some maps and the different ways Upstate is divided by region. Defining regions in Upstate New York can be a difficult task. ![]()
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