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unusual facts about Upstate New York


Ramaa Mosley

New York-based distribution company Magnolia Picture inked a deal for The Brass Teapot, which Mosley shot in Upstate New York.


Busti, New York

The town is named after Paul Busti, an official of the Holland Land Company, but its pronunciation uses a long i sound at the end, a frequent alteration in the names of several upstate New York towns.

Draft Goldwater Committee

F. Clifton White, a longtime party activist and official from Upstate New York, discussed the possibility of a Goldwater campaign with twenty-two activists, most of them members of Young Republican organizations throughout the U.S. A December meeting (this one attended by Governor Tim Babcock of Montana) determined to divide the country into nine regions for organizing, and to raise sufficient funds to open a national office.

Edward L. Berthoud

He came to the United States in 1830 with his parents and spent his childhood along the Mohawk River and in Oneida County in Upstate New York.

John Ripley Myers

John Ripley Myers graduated from Hamilton College in 1887 and shortly after (in the same year) purchased Clinton Pharmaceutical Company in Upstate New York with friend and fellow graduate from Hamilton College, William McLaren Bristol.

John Viavattine

After earning his bachelor's degree in music from Nazareth College, he moved to Los Angeles, California to teach for a short time before returning to Upstate New York to teach at Spencerport High School in Spencerport, New York.

Joseph Civello

A suspiciously large number of black Cadillacs and Lincolns in and around Apalachin, New York, the tiny Upstate New York town where the mob conference was gathering, alerted local law enforcement to investigate.

Philander Smith

Philander Smith was the son of David Smith, whose 1801 sawmill in upstate New York gave name to the village of Smith’s Mills before it became Adams, New York (after former president John Adams) in 1802.

Rilla Askew

Askew is married to actor Paul Austin, and they divide their time between Oklahoma and the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Rite Aid

In the 1990s, Rite-Aid partnered with Carl Paladino's Ellicott Development Company to expand the company's presence in upstate New York.

Stephen and Harriet Myers House

Two years after moving into the new house, in 1849, Myers merged The Northern Star with another upstate abolitionist newspaper, The True American, published by Samuel Ringgold Ward in Cortland.


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Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr.

Coxe was the son of the US Circuit Court of Appeals Justice (2nd Circuit) Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr., great grandson of Alfred Conkling, who served as a U.S. Representative from upstate New York and a judge in the Northern District, and grand nephew of Roscoe Conkling, who was a Congressman and Senator from New York and boss of the state's Republican political machine.

Alice Ripley

Ripley recently wrapped shooting on the feature film, Muckland, shot on location in the towns of Elba and Batavia in upstate New York.

Arctinurus

Arctinurus was first reported during the construction of the Erie Canal through soft Silurian shales and mudstones in upstate New York.

Billy Backus

In 2010, the award nominated "Title Town USA, Boxing in Upstate New York" by noted historian Mark Allen Baker was published by The History Press in 2010 and supports Canastota, New York as the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage.

Canal Town Museum

In 2010, the award nominated "Title Town USA, Boxing in Upstate New York" by noted historian Mark Allen Baker was published by The History Press in 2010 and not only supports Canastota, New York as the center of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage but also brings to life local folklore and history.

CBNA

Community Bank, N.A., a bank servicing Upstate New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania

Chestertown

Chestertown, New York, a hamlet in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, United States

Elbridge Gerry

The upstate New York town of Elbridge is believed to have been named in his honor, as is the western New York town of Gerry, in Chautauqua County.

Finn Brothers

It was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with Bowie producer Tony Visconti, bassist Bones Hillman and Ross Burge on drums, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House producer Mitchell Froom and different session musicians.

Gaetano Orlando

The operation, performed at the University of Rochester Medical Center, was the first such operation in Upstate New York.

Gloria Stivic

Struthers continued playing the character of Gloria Bunker in guest appearances on Archie Bunker's Place and on the 1982–1983 related series Gloria, in which she was divorced from her husband Michael, and working in a veterinarian's office in upstate New York.

Go for Your Guns

After four records that were assisted by producers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, the Isley Brothers decided to stay in the East Coast choosing to record at upstate New York's Bearsville Studios, not too far from the brothers' T-Neck label in neighboring New Jersey.

Holtsville, New York

As another post office named Waverly already existed in Upstate New York, the name of the hamlet was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U.S. Postmaster General Joseph Holt.

J. R. Monterose

The last decade and a half of Monterose's life was spent gigging mostly at various upstate New York venues, including the Lark Tavern in Albany.

Live recordings at the Lark and other upstate New York venues such as Opus 40 have been released by Croscrane Records.

James Chace

In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Government at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, in upstate New York.

Jessica Mezey

She began her ballet training in upstate New York, continuing in Arizona, New York City and finally at the famous Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg (Russia), where she received her diploma.

Jonathan Lerman

He was born in Queens, NY, and currently resides in the upstate New York suburb of Vestal.

Mike Bordick

Mike Bordick was born in Michigan and spent parts of his early childhood in Maine and in upstate New York before the family settled in Winterport, Maine, while he was in high school.

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Nancy Drew goes undercover as a transfer student named "Becca Sawyer" at the Waverly Academy for Girls, an exclusive boarding school in upstate New York.

NY Green Fest

Participants will spend a weekend sharing skills for sustainable living and sustainable politics on the Alfred University campus in rural upstate New York.

Pamela Uschuk

She has also taught at Greenhaven Maximum Security Prison for Men in upstate New York and in Native American schools on the Salish, Sioux, Assiniboine, Northern Cheyenne, Flathead, Blackfeet, Crow, Tohono O'odham and Yaqui nations.

Planet Waves

According to Robertson, the idea of collaborating with Dylan evolved from a conversation that took place sometime after July 28, when The Band played to hundreds of thousands of people at Summer Jam at Watkins Glen in upstate New York.

Rodger Jacobs

Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, a play Jacobs co-wrote with Tom Flannery, had its world premiere in 2007 and continues to be displayed in various theatrical venues in Pennsylvania and upstate New York with actor Bob Hughes.

Sara Bronfman

Sara and Clare became committed followers of NXIVM and of its leader, Keith Raniere, relocating to upstate New York to work as NXIVM trainers.

Sarah J. Mahler

Sarah J. Mahler was born in York, Pennsylvania but spent most of her formative years in rural Upstate New York in the western Catskill Mountains.

Serving Sara

Willing to give Joe one last shot, Ray gives him an assignment to serve British socialite Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) with divorce papers from her husband, Gordon (Bruce Campbell), who is at his ranch in Texas with his mistress, Kate (Amy Adams), while Sara is vacationing in upstate New York.

Shane White

More recently, his first graphic novel North Country, a 96-page full-color memoir published by NBM Publishing, reveals the hard-scrabble life of living in a blue-collar mill town in upstate New York.

SO-IL

They went on to design a residence for designer Ivan Chermayeff in upstate New York, a wedding chapel in Nanjing, China, and the AIA New York award-winning Kukje Gallery in Seoul.

Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York

The Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York (TIUNY) is an all male educational institution for high school and college age young men located in Rochester, New York and is primarily an American, Lithuanian style Haredi but non-Hasidic yeshiva.

The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm is set on the campus of a boys' University-preparatory school in upstate New York.

The Hotel Clarence

The Hotel Clarence's has strong ties to the Hollywood hit It's a Wonderful Life,and the residents claim that when Frank Capra visited this small Upstate New York town in 1945, he was inspired to model the movie's Bedford Falls after it.

The Humbling

Months after his stint in the hospital, Axler's agent, Jerry Oppenheim, visits him at his upstate New York home to tell him about an offer to play James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night.

The Latebirds

The album was recorded in upstate New York and it included guest appearances by MC5-guitarist Wayne Kramer, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' organ player Benmont Tench, Ken Stringfellow from The Posies and Wilco's John Stirratt and Pat Sansone.

Time Warner Cable News

Outside of upstate New York, Time Warner has announced plans to expand the then YNN branding to News 8 Austin in Austin, Texas and News 14 Carolina.

United States presidential election in New York, 1876

Hayes won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Tilden did win a fair number of upstate counties including Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany.

United States presidential election in New York, 1880

Garfield won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Hancock did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1884

Blaine won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1888

Harrison, however, dominated in much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

Upstate New York Synod

Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is led by bishop Marie C. Jerge, and is a Companion Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, a partner synod with the Central/Southern Illinois Synod, and a Reconciling in Christ Synod.

WLKK

The network changed ownership three times in the 1960s, and was most notable between 1969 and 1981 for being upstate New York's arm of Pat Robertson's original Christian Broadcasting Network as WBIV.