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New York, known officially as the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of 54,556 square miles (141,300 km²), New York is the 27th largest U.S. state geographically. With 20.2 million residents, it is the fourth most populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island. The state of New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest.

New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's population lives in the New York metropolitan area, the world's largest urban landmass. NYC is home to the headquarters of the United Nations, and has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, as well as the world's most economically powerful city, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world. The next five most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Yonkers, Rochester, Syracuse, and the state capital of Albany.

New York has a diverse geography. The southeastern part of the state, the area known as Downstate, includes Long Island and several smaller associated islands, as well as New York City and the lower Hudson River Valley. The much larger Upstate New York area spreads from the Great Lakes to Lake Champlain and the border of Pennsylvania, and includes a diverse topography and range of regions including the Adirondack Mountains in the northeastern lobe of the state. New York also includes several ranges of the wider Appalachian Mountains. The east–west Mohawk River Valley is the primary river valley bisecting more mountainous regions, and connects into the north-south Hudson River valley in the Capital Region of New York. Western New York is part of the Great Lakes region and borders on the Great Lakes of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, as well as Niagara Falls. Between the central and western parts of the state, New York is dominated by the Finger Lakes, a popular vacation and tourist destination. (Full article...)

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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/ BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was generally viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. She eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. During her tenure, Ginsburg wrote notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia (1996), Olmstead v. L.C. (1999), Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000), and City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York (2005).

Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated joint first in her class. During the early 1960s she worked with the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, learned Swedish, and co-authored a book with Swedish jurist Anders Bruzelius; her work in Sweden profoundly influenced her thinking on gender equality. She then became a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field. (Full article...)

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The Wappinger (/ˈwɒpɪndʒər/) were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.

At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, but their territory included the east bank of the Hudson in what became both Putnam and Westchester counties south to the western Bronx and northern Manhattan Island. To the east they reached to the Connecticut River Valley, and to the north the Roeliff Jansen Kill in southernmost Columbia County, New York, marked the end of their territory. (Full article...)

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Image 1Map of the Province of New York. (from History of New York (state))
Image 2Companies such as Eastman Kodak (Rochester headquarters pictured ca. 1900) epitomized New York's manufacturing economy in the late 19th century. (from History of New York (state))
Image 3A crowd in Times Square awaits the countdown to the start of 2006. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 4New York State Theater (from Culture of New York City)
Image 5Langston Hughes was part of the Harlem Renaissance that flourished in the 1920s. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 6New York was dominated by Iroquoian (purple) and Algonquian (pink) Indian tribes.
Image 7The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 8SUR by Xefirotarch at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 9A historical juxtaposition: a replica of Henry Hudson's 17th-century Halve Maen passes modern-day lower Manhattan where the original ship would have sailed while investigating New York harbor. (from History of New York (state))
Image 10Theodore Roosevelt (from History of New York (state))
Image 11The Stadt Huys in Albany became the state's seat of government when Albany became the permanent capitol in 1797. (from History of New York (state))
Image 12A Phoenix rises to new life at the Village Halloween Parade fifty days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (from Culture of New York City)
Image 13The West Indian Labor Day Parade is an annual carnival along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 14The Yoshio Taniguchi building at the Museum of Modern Art. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 15A frameworker tightens bolts on the Empire State Building in 1930; the recently completed Chrysler Building is seen in the background. (from History of New York (state))
Image 16United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. (from History of New York (state))
Image 17Flooding on Avenue C in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy. (from History of New York (state))
Image 18Martin Scorsese at the Tribeca Film Festival (from Culture of New York City)
Image 19John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne stylizes the American win at Saratoga. (from History of New York (state))
Image 20Street vendors at the Feast of San Gennaro in Manhattan's Little Italy. (from Culture of New York City)
Image 21The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, is adorned with rainbow pride flags. (from Culture of New York City)

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That's another reason I love New York. Just like that, it can go from bad to cute.

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Gyllenhaal at the premiere of Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/; Swedish: [ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl]; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001).

Gyllenhaal starred in the 2004 science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. He played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which Gyllenhaal won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Quentin Beck / Mysterio. He also had lead roles in Wildlife (2018), Velvet Buzzsaw (2018), The Guilty (2021), and Ambulance (2022). (Full article...)

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This view of Times Square in New York City shows many billboards for Broadway shows. Times Square resides within the Broadway Theater district. This photo was taken near the intersection of 7th Avenue and West 47th Street. A small sampling of Broadway shows represented here include Shrek the Musical, Jersey Boys, Wicked, Hair, Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, and West Side Story.

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...that the Staten Island Light was designated as a 'New York City Landmark' in 1968 and still remains a valuable aid to navigation for all ships entering the Ambrose Channel in Lower New York Bay?
...that Fairport, New York was named as one of the Top 100 Places to Live in America by Money Magazine?
...that Buffalo, New York is the current economic and cultural center of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area?

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Rob Carpenter (born August 1, 1968) is a retired American football wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots, New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.
George Herbert "Pete" Bostwick (August 14, 1909 in Bisby Lake, New York - January 13, 1982) was an American court tennis player, a steeplechase jockey and horse trainer, and an eight-goal polo player.
Thomas Christian Murphy (born August 27, 1979, in Suffern, New York) is a Major League Baseball outfielder with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Murphy is a 1997 graduate of Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda, Florida.
George Dupont Pratt (16 August 1869 in Brooklyn – 20 January 1935) was a conservationist, philanthropist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of ancient antiquities.

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Bull Hill, also unofficially known as Mount Taurus, is a mountain north of the village of Cold Spring on the Hudson River in Putnam County in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the river-straddling range known as the Hudson Highlands.

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Nicknames: The Empire State, The Excelsior State
Capital: Albany
Governor: Andrew Cuomo (D)
Lieutenant Governor: Kathy Hochul (D)
Secretary of State: Rossana Rosado (D)
Attorney General: Letitia James (D)

Total area: 54,555 mi²
- Land: 47,190 mi²
- Water: 7,365 mi²
Highest elevation: 5,344 ft (Mount Marcy)

Population 19,745,289 (2016 est)
Admission to the Union: July 26, 1788 (11^th)

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Animal: Beaver
Bird: Eastern Bluebird
Colors: Blue & Gold
Freshwater Fish: Brook trout
Saltwater Fish: Striped bass
Flower: Rose
Fossil: Eurypterus remipes
Insect: Nine-spotted Ladybug
Songs: "I Love New York"
Tree: Sugar Maple
Gem: Garnet

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