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New York State covers 54,556 square miles {141,300 square kilometers}; highest elevation is 5,343 feet (1628½ meters).
The state was admitted to the Union on 26 July 1788 {the 11th state}.
The popular name is 'The Empire State'.
The official motto "Excelsior" is a Latin word meaning 'higher', 'superior', and is commonly translated as 'Ever Upward'.
The state flower is the Rose; the state tree is the Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum).
The state mammal is the Beaver (Castor canadensis); the state bird is the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis).
Official Website of the State of New York
New York State entry at Wikipedia
New York State Portal at Wikipedia
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browse travel books about New York State U.S.A. at Amazon
NewPages.com's Directory of Independent Bookstores for New York
A Few Important People
Governor Andrew Cuomo [since 2011; Dem]
Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy [since 2011; Dem]
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer [since 1999; Dem]
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand [since 2009; Dem]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio [since 2014; Dem]
New York City area
includes the five boroughs of Bronx County, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens County,
New York City & Staten Island (Richmond County)
official website of the City of New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:New_York_City
Non-Government Citywide Links
The City Review weblog {last update 2009?}
City Realty weblog
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A Few Important People of N.Y.C.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio [since 2014; Dem]
official website •
Wikipedia •
campaign website
former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg [2002-2013; GOP]
former New York City Mayor Mayor Edward Irving 'Ed' Koch [1924-2013], in office 1978-89
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Koch + http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462292/
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"Koch" documentary film [Zeitgeist Films Feb 2013] "The man. The mayor. The movie." Co-produced & directed by Neil Barsky DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch official trailer [2:22] at YouTube |
former Mayor LaGuardia
artists & authors of the Harlem Renaissance, 1919-36
writer Truman Capote [1924-84]
fascist political demagogue David H. Koch [twin 1940-2019] was based in New York City
philanthropist & socialite Frederick R. Koch [b. 1933] is based in New York City
New York sportswriter William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson [1853-1921]
playwright Arthur Miller [1915-2005]
urban planner Robert Moses [1888-1981]
Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [Dem NY-14 in The Bronx; since 2019]
official homepage •
campaign website •
entry at Wikipedia
more info on the Working Minds / Activism / U.S. Congress Page
Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review
Antoinette Perry [1888-1946] for whom Broadway's Tony Award is named
Broadway reporter & author Damon Runyon [1884-1946]
Ed Sullivan
Is Donald Trump necessary?
Tennessee Williams [1911-83] lived in New York City, New Orleans, Italy and Key West, Florida
Broadway columnist Walter Winchell [1897-1972]
New York City / Manhattan Island
Marquis Theater [est. 1986], 1536 Broadway in New York City
Strand Books [est. 1927] "Where books are loved", 12th & Broadway, NYC
New York City's 92nd Street Y [est. 1874]
7 Days of Genius [March 2016 events] based at the 92nd Street Y in NYC
The Jewish Museum [est. 1904], 1109 Fifth Ave at 92nd Street in New York City
The New York City Public Library [est. 1895]
Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan, NYC
Broadway Tour: Broadway shows in New York City
International Business Times digital global news publication [est. 2005] based in New York City
Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street in New York City
The Village East Cinema, 181-189 Second Avenue in New York City
C.T.L. Electronics, Inc. [est. 1968], 45 Murray Street, New York City
Chloe’s Soft Serve Fruit Co., 25 E. 17th Street {just off Broadway} in Manhattan, NYC
Doc Holliday's, 141 Avenue A in the East Village, Manhattan, NYC
The Meatball Shop [est. 2011] five locations in Lower Manhattan, NYC
Old Town Bar and Restaurant [est. 1892], 45 East 18th Street {just off Broadway} in Manhattan, NYC
White Horse Tavern [est. 1880], 567 Hudson Street in the West Village, Manhattan, NYC
Zabar's Deli [est. 1934], Broadway at 80th Street in Manhattan, NYC
Wall Street Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
WMail ezine Essay #18: "The Stock Market Casino" [12/2001]
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival [Jan 2016 = #4] in New York City
Hump Film Festival [March 2018 = #14] in New York City
Asia Week New York [March 2017 = #9]
BookCon reader & author event [May] at
Javits Center in NYC
Book Expo America publisher & author event [May] at
Javits Center in NYC
Borough of Bronx County
Hunter College in The Bronx, New York
Borough of Brooklyn (Kings County)
Center for Black Literature [est. 2002] at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn
Four and Twenty Blackbirds pie & coffee shop [est. 2010] in Brooklyn
"The Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book" [2014] by sisters Emily & Melissa Elsen
Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. [est. 2004], 372 Fifth Avenue (btwn. 5th & 6th Street) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Triskelion Arts [est. 2000], 106 Calyer Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
Borough of Queens County
The Hookah Monster in Oakland Gardens, Queens, New York
The Queens World Film Festival [March 2014 = #4] in Queens, New York
Rachel Carson Playground & Silent Springs Playground [started 1946, renamed 1998] in Queens, New York City
Borough of Staten Island (Richmond County)
Reading Material & Other Media About New York City
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auto-renewal subscription at Amazon - 47 issues/year for $69.99 Kindle Edition download for $5.99/month magazine website • entry at Wikipedia "The New Yorker Festival" ten seasons, 197+ episodes "The New Yorker Radio Hour" podcast [launched 10/2015] "The New Yorker Presents" podcast [launched 2/2016]
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"Coney Island" silent short [Comique Film Co. Oct 1917]
 | 25-minute silent short, filmed at Coney Island; Roscoe tries to dump his wife so that he can chase young bathing beauties; Buster arrives with Alice who is taken away by Al, who loses her to Roscoe . . . Directed & written by and starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle; also starring Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann, Agnes Neilson available on "The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection" 2-disk DVD set [2002] Image Ent. b&w DVD set [10/2002] 2 disks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • watch full movie [silent; 25:04] online at YouTube |
"Coney Island" musical feature film [1943] /tt0035749/
http://www.amazon.com/Coney-island-Betty-Grable/dp/B00BGGIXZQ/
"Living It Up" comedy musical [Paramount Pictures July 1954]
 | Technicolor™ remake of 1937 "Nothing Sacred" {see below} and the 1953 stageplay "Hazel Flagg"; an unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying of radiation poisoning in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York City • Directed by Norman Taurog; written by James Street, Ben Hecht, Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson; co-produced by & starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; music by Walter Scharf, 3 songs by Jules Styne; also starring Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sammy White, Sid Tomack, Sig Ruman, Richard Loo, Raymond Greenleaf, Walter Baldwin, Fay Roope, Art Baker, Stanley Blystone, Frank Branda, Frankie Darro, Franklyn Farnum, Fritz Feld, Eduard Franz, Kathryn Grant, Dabbs Greer, Jewel McGowan, Grady Sutton; special AT&SF Chief passenger train loaned for New Mexico scenes that were filmed in the Mojave Desert
Paramount Home Video widescreen color DVD [9/2016] for $22.98 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch official trailer [1/2015 upload; 1:44] online at YouTube |
"Manhattan" [United Artists March 1979]
Co-written & directed by and starring Woody Allen; co-written by Marshall Brickman; co-starring Diane Keaton,
Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Karen Ludwig, Michael Murphy & Anne Byrne Hoffman •
full credits from IMDb
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0792846109/ wa manhattan dvd
 | "Six Weeks" [PolyGram/Universal Dec 1982] Location filming in Los Angeles and in wintertime New York City; sentimental tale of a 12-year-old dying of leukemia who attains her dream of dancing the lead in "The Nutcracker" then dies in her mother's arms • Directed by Tony Bill; based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart; starring Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy DVD/Blu-ray not available • Sony Pictures color VHS [8/96] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"American Experience: Coney Island" TV docufilm [1991]
http://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Island-Philip-Bosco/dp/B000CNEQWS/
 | "Behind The Counter With Mussolini" one-person stageplay [1995]
One-person stageplay co-written & performed by Marco Greco about the influence of Benito Mussolini on his father and growing up working at the family's popular delicatessen in New York City • Co-written by Dante Albertie; performed at the Belmont Italian American Playhouse in NYC in December 1995; won a CableACE award in 1997; 39 performances at York Theatre at St. Peter's in NYC, Nov-Dec 1998; hit Los Angeles run in 1999 at the Tamarind Theatre, directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis; return run at Met Theatre in Los Angeles, Feb-March 2002 Marco Greco entry at Wikipedia • real life Mike's Deli website |
 | "New York: A Documentary Film" TV series [WNET-13/PBS 1999-2003] 'A compelling portrait of the greatest and most complex of cities' • 8 episodes (7 at 2 hours, one at 3 hours) co-produced, co-written & directed by Ric Burns; co-written by James Sanders; narrated by David Ogden Stiers; featuring John Steele Gordon, Kenneth Jackson, Robert A.M. Stern, Mike Wallace, actor Philip Bosco, Brendan Gill, Calvin O. Butts III, Robert A. Caro, Peter Hamill, Alfred Kazin, David McCullough, George Plimpton, Luc Sante, actor Eli Wallach, Craig Steven Wilder, Keith David, actor Paul Giamatti, politician Rudy Giuliani, Fran Lebowitz, Callie Thorne, Daniel Czitrom, Robert Sean Leonard, Peter Quinn, Marshall Berman, beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Spalding Gray, Josh Hamilton, David Levering Lewis, Donald Trump Jr., Carol Willis, Caleb Carr, James Hazeldine, Phillip Lopate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, actress Frances Sternhagen, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Joshua Freeman, Ruth J. Abram, Thomas Bender, Carol Berkin, Janeane Garofalo, Margo Jefferson, Frederic Kimball, David Margulies, Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, actor Harris Yulin, Bella Abzug, Frances Golden, Cheryl Greenberg, Ada Louise Huxtable, Mayor Ed Koch, Anna Quindlen, actress Susan Sarandon, Ray Suarez, Joan Allen, Andrei Codrescu, author E.L. Doctorow, Tony Kushner, Frank McCourt, Martin Scorsese, Ron Silver, Joel Silverman, actor Edward Herrmann, with archive footage of Louis Armstrong, Mayor Abraham Beame, Irving Berlin, Sir Winston Churchill, Duke Ellington, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, John V. Lindsay, Robert Moses, John Jakob Raskob, Richard Rodgers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945], Alfred E. Smith & politician Jimmy Walker; series won two Emmy Awards PBS Home Video b&w/color DVD [8/2005] 8 disks for $51.28 series credits at IMDb • official series website |
 | "Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and The Making of The New Yorker" [indep 2001, DVD 6/2014] 47-minute documentary featurette directed by Adam Van Doren; narrated by Stanley Tucci; featuring Roy Blount Jr., Stuart Hemple, John Updike, Philip Hamburger, Stuart Hample, editor David Remnick First Run Features DVD [6/2014] for $13.63 full credits at IMDb • watch 5/2014 official trailer [2:12 truncated] online at YouTube |
"Manhattan Love Story" TV series [ABC-TV Fall 2014]
series credits at IMDb •
ABC series homepage •
series entry at Wikipedia •
watch 5/2014 official trailer [2:52] at YouTube
 | "Weiner" [Sundance Selects/Showtime May 2016] Filmmakers set out to observe disgraced New York politician Anthony Weiner during his attempt at a comeback by running for New York City mayor in the 2013 primary election, and when Weiner gets caught sexting on the internet, inadvertantly capture a jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes view of the political machine as it breaks down. Co-written & directed by Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg; won Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival credits at IMDb • website of producers Edgeline Films I.F.C. Independent Film color DVD [8/2016] for $24.99 watch 4/2016 official trailer [2:38] at YouTube |
see also Reading Material & Other Media About New York State
Long Island
includes Nassau & Suffolk counties (east of Kings & Queens counties)
Stonybrook [NY] Film Festival [July 2013 = #18] on eastern Long Island, New York
Hudson River Valley
includes towns of Hyde Park, Kingston, Mount Vernon (ninth-largest city), New Rochelle (seventh-largest city),
Nyack, Ossining, Poughkeepsie, Stony Point, Tarrytown, Troy, West Point, Yonkers (fourth-largest city)
& Yorktown, within Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland & Westchester counties
Stewart's Original Fountain Classics sodapop [est. 1924] in Rye Brook, NY
Walter's Hot Dog Stand [est. 1919], 937 Palmer Avenue in Mamaroneck, New York
Port Jervis, New York [settled 1690]
'New York State of Mind' Biennial Regional Gathering of Greater New York Mensa [May 2017] in White Plains, New York
Somers, New York in Westchester County
http://www.somersNY.com/ + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somers,_New_York
The Elephant Hotel [built 1820-25]
Somers [NY] Historical Society [est. 1956]
Museum of The Early American Circus
Niagara-Buffalo area
includes cities of Buffalo (second-largest city) & Cheektowaga (eighth-largest city) in Erie County,
and Genesee, Niagara, Orleans & Wyoming counties
Chautauqua–Allegheny Region
includes Allegheny, Cattaraugus & Chautauqua counties
Finger Lakes Region of Central New York
includes cities of Rochester (third-largest city), Ithaca & Syracuse (fifth-largest city), within Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Livingston,
Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne, and Yates counties
http://www.schuylercounty.us/
http://www.schuylerny.com/
http://www.watkinsglen.us/ is the county seat
Watkins Glen International race track [est. 1956] in New York State
http://www.ithacamademovies.com/
University of Rochester, New York
Islands / Seaway Region
includes Jefferson, Oswego & Saint Lawrence counties
http://www.visit1000islands.com/
http://www.abm.org/ The Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY
Central Region
includes Broome, Chenango, Madison (Oneida), Oneida (Utica, Rome) & Otsego counties
Madison County [est. 1806]
http://www.madisoncounty.ny.gov/
Village of Chittenango, New York [incorp. 1842]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittenango,_New_York
International L. Frank Baum & All Things Oz Historical Foundation [est. 1990] in Chittenango, NY
Oz Museum is working to restore the Baum-Neal House in Chittenango, NY
Oz-stravaganza Festival [June 2018 = #41] in Chittenango, NY
Yellow Brick Road Casino - operated by the Oneida Indian tribe in Chittenango, NY
Adirondack Mountains
includes Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer & Lewis counties
Capital District (Albany)
includes Albany (sixth-largest city) and Schenectady (tenth-largest city) within within Albany, Columbia,
Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselear, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren & Washington counties
Saratoga Sweets Fine Candies in Halfmoon, NY
Catskill Mountains Region
includes Delaware, Greene, Sullivan & Ulster (Woodstock) counties
![Woodstock Film Festival [Oct 2013 = #14] in five towns in Upstate New York](images/WoodstockFF.jpg)
![Upstate Films [est. 1972] non-profit operates two theater venues in Rhinebeck & Woodstock, New York](images/upstatefilmsNY.jpg)
New York's Professional Sports Teams
http://www.amazon.com/You-Know-New-York-Yankees/dp/1402214200/
http://www.amazon.com/Billy-Martin-Baseballs-Flawed-Genius/dp/0544022092/
http://www.amazon.com/Pinstripe-Empire-Yankees-Before-After/dp/1608194922/
Smaller Towns of New York State
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_State_Department_Economic_Development_Regions.png
New York City Metro (18,897,109 in NY/NJ/PA, 12,368,525 in NY)
Buffalo-Niagara Falls (1,135,509)
Rochester (1,054,323)
Albany and the Capital District (870,716)
Poughkeepsie and the Hudson Valley (670,301)
Syracuse (662,577)
Utica-Rome (299,397)
Binghamton (251,725)
Kingston (182,493)
Glens Falls (128,923)
Ithaca (101,564)
Elmira (88,830)
Railroads of New York State
listing of surviving steam locomotives in New York
'list of New York railroads' page at Wikipedia
TrainWeb / Tourist Railways / New York State website got hacked {2017}
http://www.nymtmuseum.org/
http://www.rmli.org/
http://nyc.railfan.net/
http://www.nycshs.org/
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad [1828-1987]
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway [1885-1932]
Canadian National Railway (CN)
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)
Catskill Mountain Railroad heritage tourist railroad [est. 1982] based in Kingston, New York
Delaware & Hudson Railway [est. 1823] is owned by Canadian Pacific/Soo Line [since 1991]
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad [1851-merger 1960]
Erie Railroad [1832-merger 1960]
Erie Lackawanna Railway [merger 1960-1968]
Lehigh Valley Railroad [1846-1976]
Long Island Rail Road commuter rail [est. 1834]
Metro-North Railroad commuter rail
New Jersey Transit Rail Operations commuter rail
Spirit of America Bookstore's New York Central Railroad Section
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad - the 'Nickel Plate Road' [1881-1964]
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad [1872-1969 merger]
Spirit of America Bookstore's Penn Central Railroad Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's Pennsylvania Railroad Section
Rutland Railway [1843-1963]
Trolley Museum of New York heritage light rail
Indian Country of New York State
Poospatuck Reservation on Long Island
Shinnecock Reservation on Long Island
Reading Material & Other Media About New York State
browse travel books about New York State U.S.A. at Amazon
books from this section were moved in 2015 to the Reading Material About New York Page
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"The American Side" [The Orchard April 2016]
 | Pop-noir thriller filmed in Upstate New York; a low-rent detective is hired to locate an electronic engineer, who mysteriously commits suicide at Niagara Falls; the detective's attempt to get to the bottom of the case unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention designed by enigmatic scientist Nikola Tesla [1856-1943]. Co-produced, co-written & directed by Jenna Ricker; co-written by & starring Greg Stuhr; music by David Shire; also starring Alicja Bachleda, Camilla Belle, Matthew Broderick, Robert Forster, Janeane Garofalo, Grant Shaud, Robert Vaughn, Harris Yulin, Joe Grifasi, Stephen Henderson, Norm Sham, Kelsey Siepser, Don Stuhr, Daniela Galli, Todd Benzin, Brian Mysliwy, Tracey B. Wilson, Vincent O'Neill, Wendy Higgins, Peter Palmisano, Rolando Gomez
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • no entry at Wikipedia watch 3/2016 official trailer [2:16] at YouTube |
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