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unusual facts about New York state



1Sky

1Sky was founded in the spring of 2007 when thirty climate campaigners were on a retreat in the Hudson Valley of New York state.

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American black-and-white drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis, and set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the notorious maximum security prison in New York State.

American University of Central Asia

In March 2010, AUCA has established an official partnership with Bard College located in the state of New York, United States.

Barbara M. Watson

Barbara M. Watson was born in New York City on November 5, 1918, the daughter of James S. Watson, the first black judge elected in New York State, and his wife, Violet Lopez Wilson, one of the founders of the National Council of Negro Women.

Bash Bish Falls

The waters of Bash Bish Falls begin at a spring in Mount Washington and after the falls, Bash Bish Brook continues on a gentler course through New York State until joining the Hudson River and flows through Copake.

Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area

The Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area consists of over 3,000 acres (12 km²) of wetlands and uplands in Orange County and Sullivan County in New York State, U.S.

Bernetta Adams Miller

Her family lived for a time in Nebraska, but soon moved to the Finger Lakes region of New York state where she briefly attended the State Normal School at Geneseo.

Calumet County, Wisconsin

In the 1830s, the United States government relocated Native Americans from New York State and New England to the southwest part of the county; these included the Brothertown Indians, Oneida Indians, and Stockbridge-Munsee Indians.

Canadian cricket team in the United States in 1844

The origins of the match lay four years earlier when a team from the St George's Club turned up in Toronto, almost destitute after a hard slog by stage coach through New York State, and across Lake Ontario by steamer.

Charlotte Garrigue

Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk (November 20, 1850 in Brooklyn, New York, USA – May 13, 1923 Lány) was the wife of the Czechoslovak philosopher, sociologist, and politician, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia.

Cheesecocks Patent

The Cheesecock or Cheesecocks Patent, in the southern part of what became Orange County, New York State, was a tract of land that now covers the towns of Monroe and Tuxedo and extends over part of Rockland County, which was separated from Orange County in 1798

Child grooming

In 2005, Yahoo! chat rooms were investigated by the New York State attorney general's office for allowing users to create rooms whose names suggested that they were being used for this purpose.

Chrysoclista linneella

In the United States there are reports and records from other parts of New York State, New Jersey, near Boston, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont.

Comfort Tyler

General James Clinton arrived in 1784 when he came up the Mohawk River with a surveying party, for the purpose of establishing the boundary line between New York and Pennsylvania.

Detroit–Windsor Tunnel

When constructed, it was only the third underwater vehicular tunnel constructed in the United States (after the Holland Tunnel between Jersey City, New Jersey, and downtown Manhattan, New York City, New York and the Posey Tube between Oakland and Alameda, California).

Ellsworth Van Graafeiland

That appeal reversed a decision by Judge Constance Baker Motley of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who had previously ruled that New York State sentences of up to life in prison for the sale of small amounts of narcotics were unconstitutionally severe.

Erik Marcisak

Erik Marcisak (pronounced "Mar-See-Sack") was born on March 17, 1978 in Queens, NY.

Ernest Hutcheson

Hutcheson was also associated with the Chautauqua School of Music at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York State.

Feeder ship

While container shipping is currently uncommon on the Great Lakes, a proposal for shipping containers from the port of Oswego on Lake Ontario in upstate New York down the Saint Lawrence Seaway for transfer to larger ocean-going ships at Melford International Terminal in Nova Scotia is currently (2008) being considered.

Formspring

A fourteen year-old student, Jamey Rodemeyer, from Williamsville North High School in New York state, United States, committed suicide on September 18, 2011 after repeated incidents of bullying in real life and on Formspring.

French Corral, California

The Bridgeport Covered Bridge is reputed by some to be the longest single-span wooden covered bridge in the world; the other leading contender is Old Blenheim Bridge in New York State.

Henry Louis Gibson

Henry Louis Gibson (1906–1992) a British-born American pioneering medical photographer, was born in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom and died in Rochester, New York State, United States of America.

Iroquois Handicap

The Iroquois Handicap is named for the Iroquois Indian Nation who still inhabit some of the region that now includes central New York State.

Jabez Delano Hammond

In 1825, he was appointed one of the commissioners in the settlement of the claims of New York State against the Federal Government.

James E. Kearney

Kearney graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1901, and then attended the Teachers College of Columbia University, where he earned a Regents license to teach in New York State.

Jennifer Convertibles

On July 29, 2004 New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced a consent order and judgment that will significantly reform the sales practices of Jennifer Convertibles and provide restitution to consumers.

John Guzlowski

After working on farms in western New York State to pay off their passage to America, they eventually settled in Chicago in the city's old Polish Downtown in the vicinity of St. Fidelis Parish in Humboldt Park.

Kittay House

Kittay House was built in 1969 under the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program, an affordable housing initiative in New York state that was signed into law in 1955.

Marc Alessi

Prior to his election, Alessi served as the Downstate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs within the Office of the New York State Comptroller.

Namugongo

The mixed boarding school is a partner with the Stephen Shames Foundation, based in Brooklyn, New York State in the instruction of Information Technology methods and applications to high school students in Uganda.

New York Majesty

Despite its "New York" name, home games were played at the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, which is over 100 miles fron New York City and New York State, and is not located within the New York metropolitan area.

Nicholas Scoppetta

In 1979 New York State Governor Hugh L. Carey appointed Scoppetta to a post on the The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.

Norway, Illinois

The settlers had in large part relocated from the Kendall settlement in New York State which had been founded seven years before by pioneers who arrived from Norway during 1825 aboard the Restauration.

Obsession Telescopes

An Obsession Telescope 25" was the largest aperture telescope at the Custer Observatory in New York State for a time.

Patricia DiMango

Patricia Mafalda DiMango (officially Hon. Patricia M. Di Mango) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Kings County, New York.

Prince's Bay, Staten Island

One block west of the latter is the South Campus of Staten Island University Hospital, formerly known as Richmond Memorial Hospital, which has the distinction of being the southernmost acute-care facility in both New York City and New York State.

Raymond P. Martinez

Martinez served as New York State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles under Governor George Pataki from December 2000 to December 2005; as Assistant General Counsel to the Long Island (New York) Power Authority; as Special Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff for the New York State Attorney General; and as an attorney in private practice.

Road transport

In New York State, the Great Western Turnpike was started in Albany in 1799 and eventually extended, by several alternate routes, to near what is now Syracuse, New York.

Sound of Life Radio

The Sound of Life Radio Network is a regional Contemporary Christian music network headquartered in Lake Katrine, New York and serves eastern New York State, northern New Jersey, northeast Pennsylvania, and western New England.

St. Mary's College of Engineering and Technology

Apart from the regular undergraduate program the college also has an International Center that offers dual degree programs in collaboration with Napier University, Edinburgh, and Marist College, New York.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

Notable clients include the nation's oldest Hindu temple, the Hindu Temple Society of North America, in Flushing, New York City, Prison Fellowship International, Muslim students in Richardson, Texas, seeking to pray the dhuhr prayer on the campus of Lloyd V. Berkner High School, and a Zen Buddhist silent meditation center in New York state that neighbors claimed would make too much noise.

Truman P. White

After attending the public school as a boy he spent a year in an academy at Rochester, N.Y. About the year 1843 his father bought the S 1/2 of Lot 32, Con. 5, and the S 1/4 of Lot 32, Con. 4, in Majorville located in Pickering, Ontario where he finally settled.

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

At that time, 5,000 midshipmen were in training and were permitted to complete their courses at Columbia University, University of Notre Dame, Cornell University and at Fort Schuyler in New York State, as well as the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

Utica Zoo

The City of Utica, despite owning the land, does not financially support the zoo: it is primarily funded by the Oneida County government, the New York State Natural Heritage Program, and fundraising by the Zoo and private donors.

Walter Bowne

He was a New York State senator from the Southern District from 1816 to 1822, and from the 1st District 1823 to 1824.

Willis H. Stephens, Sr.

As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Stephens was considered one of the most powerful and influential men in New York State.


see also

+POOL

The project has been met with interest from government officials, notably New York State Senator Daniel Squadron and New York City Council Member Brad Lander.

105th New York State Legislature

The 105th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to June 2, 1882, during the third year of Alonzo B. Cornell's governorship, in Albany.

Albany and Susquehanna Railroad

Gould and Fisk, incensed by his actions, had him suspended as president of the A&S by a judge they controlled on the New York State Supreme Court, George G. Barnard.

Albert Vander Veer

After passing a New York state examination he was commissioned in December, 1862, assistant surgeon of the Sixty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, and ordered to join his regiment at Falmouth, Virginia.

Amalgamated Bank

In 1957, it financed the construction of Park Reservoir Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, which was the first affordable housing development created under New York State's Mitchell-Lama Housing Program.

Ann Pfau

She was appointed Chief Administrative Judge of all New York State courts in 2007 following and appointment by former Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye.

Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District

Its significant business entrepreneurs included men such as Henry Wells, founder of American Express and Wells Fargo, whose operations created new express mail and banking services that spanned New York state and reached to the developing state of California.

Beecher's

Beecher's Trilobite Bed, fossil bearing location in New York state, United States.

Cal Kern

Cal Kern is the president and owner of the Niagara Power, an amateur baseball team and the New York State Director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Caneadea, New York

William Muldoon, wrestler & first New York State Athletic Commissioner

Charles Edward Barns

The parents of Charles Barns, Caleb Paul Barns/Barnes and Elizabeth Ann (Eddy) Barns, emigrated from New York State to Wisconsin Territory with the early Euro-American settlers, and Caleb Barns began practicing law.

Christopher Norton

:For the 19th-century New York state senator, see Christopher F. Norton.

Daniel J. O'Donnell

O'Donnell was the first openly gay man elected to the New York State Assembly and currently serves as one of six LGBT members of the New York Legislature, alongside Assemblymembers Deborah Glick, Micah Kellner, Matthew Titone and Harry Bronson, as well as Senator Brad Hoylman.

Deborah VanAmerongen

Additionally, VanAmerongen served as chair of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the NYS Housing Finance Agency; the State of New York Mortgage Agency; the Homeless Housing Assistance Corporation, the Harlem Community Development Corporation and the New York State Affordable Housing Corporation

East Lovejoy, Buffalo, New York

Carl Paladino, developer, Republican gubernatorial candidate in the 2010 New York State election, defeated by Andrew Cuomo.

Funny Cide Stakes

The Funny Cide Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for horses three-years-old and up bred in New York, approved by the New York State-Bred Registry, and run at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Hamilton Ward

Hamilton Ward, Jr., New York State Attorney General and son of Hamilton Ward, Sr.

Hank Monk

Monk is believed to have started driving a stage for William Clark in New York state between Ogdensburg and Fort Covington at age 12.

Hasidic Judaism

However, the most rapidly growing community of American Hasidic Jews is located in Rockland County and the western Hudson Valley of New York State, including the communities of Monsey, Monroe, New Square, and Kiryas Joel.

Henry F. Zwack

Governor George Pataki subsequently appointed him Executive Deputy Commissioner, New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) and later as a Judge on the New York State Court of Claims in December, 2006.

Hugh Barclay

Hugh Douglas Barclay (born 1932), New York State Senator and former United States Ambassador to El Salvador

James Holland

James P. Holland (1865–1941), president of the New York State Federation of Labor, 1916–1926

John Cantine

Cantine also served in the New York state convention concerning the ratification of the United States Constitution.

John Cruger

Henry Cruger, his grandson who was a member of the Parliament of Great Britain and later a New York State senator.

John D. Fay

Fay participated with Stephen Clark in re-constructing the Long Bridge over the Potomac, and was a Resident Engineer on the New York State canals from 1841 to 1849.

John Saxe

John Godfrey Saxe II (1877–1953), lawyer and member of the New York State Senate

Keith Wright

Keith L. T. Wright (born 1955), American politician, member of the New York State Assembly

Leroy J. Manor

Born in Morrisonville, New York, on February 21, 1921, Manor graduated in 1937 from Cadyville High School, in Clinton County, New York, and then received his Teacher’s Certificate from New York State Normal School in 1940.

Mary-Margaret Humes

Humes competed as Miss Thousand Islands in the 1973 Miss New York State contest, and she won the Miss Florida USA pageant and was third runner up in the 1975 Miss USA pageant behind eventual winner and fellow actress Summer Bartholomew of California.

Michael Gianaris

He is the second Greek-American to be elected to the New York State Legislature after Dean Skelos.

Minnewaska State Park Preserve

The Minnewaska State Park Preserve is a 21,106 acre (8,541 ha) preserve located on the Shawangunk Ridge in Ulster County, New York on US 44/NY 55, five miles (8 km) east of New York State Route 299.

Nathaniel Gorham

In connection with Oliver Phelps, he purchased from the state of Massachusetts in 1788 pre-emption rights to an immense tract of land in western New York State which straddled the Genesee River, all for the sum of $1,000,000 (the Phelps and Gorham Purchase).

New Milford Hospital

New Milford Hospital, (founded 1921) is a not-for profit hospital in Litchfield County, Connecticut which serves western and northwestern Connecticut and parts of southeastern New York state.

New York state election, 1864

The 1864 New York state election was held on November 8, 1864, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.

New York State Route 292

New York State Route 292 (NY 292) is a short state highway in the Hudson Valley of New York in the United States, bridging Putnam and Dutchess counties.

New York State Route 303

New York State Route 303 (NY 303) is a north–south state highway in eastern Rockland County, New York, in the United States.

New York State Route 312

New York State Route 312 (NY 312) is a short but important state highway located entirely within the town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, in the United States.

NYRA

New York Racing Association, The NY State franchisee which runs racing operations at three New York State Thoroughbred racecourses; Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Racecourse.

Oil Springs

Oil Springs Reservation, an Indian reservation of the Seneca tribe in New York state

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Patrick Connors

His writings have been cited in opinions issued by the New York Court of Appeals seven times and by the other courts of New York State more than ninety times.

Percy Jewett Burrell

In 1929, Burrell served as general director of New York State's one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary Sullivan Expedition pageants.

Politics of New York

New York State gave small margins of victory to Democrats John F. Kennedy in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Michael Dukakis in 1988, as well as Republicans Herbert Hoover in 1928, Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Ray Stern

In 2005 he received the New York State Award (now since renamed the Senator Hugh Farley Award) from the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in Amsterdam, New York.

Robert J. Rodriguez

Prior to being elected to the New York State Assembly, Rodriguez served as the chairman for Manhattan Community Board 11.

Sean Maloney

Sean Patrick Maloney (born 1966), American Democratic Party politician in New York state

Suzi Oppenheimer

She is a staunch supporter of the national and New York teachers union locals, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and United Federation of Teachers (UFT), respectively, and an opponent of expanding the number of charter schools in New York State.

Westbrook Preparatory School

Westbrook Preparatory School offers an eight-hour school day that provides a state Regents course load and is taught by New York State Certified teachers and teacher's assistants.

William Larkin

Bill Larkin (born 1928), Republican member of the New York State Senate