The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Timberridge]

Of course it should be in Utica. Peak Upstates.

Hmmm. This post has given me an idea. Since the exact border is still ill-defined and controversial, perhaps we can regroup and collectively define the epicenter of Upstate?

Your vote is for Utica? I think I can be persuaded.

[rideit]

I could agree on that.

[Brownski]

Utica for sure

[Timberridge]

No votes for Oneonta?

[grskier]

Ok, kids, this was fun. Just for shits and giggles, I googled my own name just to see what came up. The only thing that was remotely interesting was this picture on eBay. It is me in 1987, in Thornden Park, snowboarding the sledding hill. It was for the Syracuse Paper, and they took down my name.
Note the Holiday Valley knit cap!
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Mad Steeze, Yo

I used to live on the corner of that park. We skied it several times and would build up the jumps to learn 3s and 180s etc.

My buddy Dave also got mugged in that park walking home one night.

[Brownski]

No votes for Oneonta?

I think it’s missing the rust belt factor maybe? I lived there as a child- from like 72 to 76. I need to find an excuse to wander through again. I diverted on my way home from Cooperstown to try out Brooks a few years ago but didn’t go downtown. Has anything changed?

[fastfred]

I used to live on the corner of that park. We skied it several times and would build up the jumps to learn 3s and 180s etc.

My buddy Dave also got mugged in that park walking home one night.

the place was looking pretty rough when I was there a few years ago
westcott street is pretty cool
but it's good block bad block all around there

[DBdude]

Where are you headed? Take some pics. Also, have you ever heard of Carrol’s Hamburgers? I think they were before my time.

https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/...mburgers.1384/

NYSB has delivered some good upstate intel I think.

There was a carrol’s in south glensfalls in the early 70s


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[grskier]

the place was looking pretty rough when I was there a few years ago
westcott street is pretty cool
but it's good block bad block all around there

We spent a lot of time on Westcott to get away from the hill bars. There was a great venue there for small shows... Planet 505 maybe.. Then the market a few doors down delivered. You could get a keg, pizzas, and toilet paper all with the same delivery.

[Timberridge]

I think it’s missing the rust belt factor maybe? I lived there as a child- from like 72 to 76. I need to find an excuse to wander through again. I diverted on my way home from Cooperstown to try out Brooks a few years ago but didn’t go downtown. Has anything changed?

You're probably right--too many downstate kids there during the school year. Utica's more real.

[CazMan26]

Hmmm. This post has given me an idea. Since the exact border is still ill-defined and controversial, perhaps we can regroup and collectively define the epicenter of Upstate?

Your vote is for Utica? I think I can be persuaded.

Erieville

[m2711c]

pfft… utica. rome is the center of new york state. originally intended to be the capital of the state due to its centrality, it is by far the largest city in the upstates and home to our nations first cheese factory.


drone footage shows the inherent beauty of its convenient canal crossroads locale.






facts.

[Brownski]

Another upstate website. This guy is talking about the center of NY state- not upstate- but there it is. Anybody familiar with Pratt’s Hollow?

https://exploringupstate.com/journey...ew-york-state/

[rideit]

OK, so I know it well. In fact, I broke my back in five places jumping off of Pratt’s Falls in 1988. Will forever be seared in my memory and personal history. I should not be walking, actually. I need to go back to that spot sometime. I can’t remember how or where I jumped off of it, it might have been a little lower down, as it was on private property.

[m2711c]

ol’ canadian edna headin’ back ta the troylet…























yep.

[EWG]

pfft… utica. rome is the center of new york state. originally intended to be the capital of the state due to its centrality, it is by far the largest city in the upstates and home to our nations first cheese factory.


drone footage shows the inherent beauty of its convenient canal crossroads locale.






facts.

On one hand, I still say Utica for sure and there seems to be general consensus around that. It would be awesome to actually stablish SOMETHING after 343 pages of this.

On the other hand, Rome does have both an air force base and a hewn log fort, so if we had to defend the Upstates from, say, Canadians or Floridians, that would help.

How about Utica is the epicenter and Rome is the seat of our forces?

[grskier]

Rome also hosted Woodstock '99

There were several parts of that show that are seared into my brain as far as awesomeness and for low points in watching human kind.

[m2711c]

that there is a literal definition of the upstates in and of itself…





fact.

[fastfred]

was right by your office two weeks ago MC2
I knew I shoulda stopped in

and can we agree that ithaca is the center of weirdness and liberalism for the usa?

had a buncha people ask me if I was going to grassroots fuck that never went to that hippie shit I'd go if too short was playing

[rideit]

It is A center.
But Boulder, Berkeley, Burlington, (and some others) might actually be stronger in the hippie ethos, as it affects policy/etc.

[huckbucket]

It is A center.
But Boulder, Berkeley, Burlington, (and some others) might actually be stronger in the hippie ethos, as it affects policy/etc.

Wouldn't it just be easier to rank according to the length of armpit hair?

[gravitylover]

Lol

[Timberridge]

It's apparently in again.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/armpit-...ue-11657925530

[riser4]

People's Republic of Burlington all the way! I grew up in what quickly became the 'burbs. It felt like an exurb back then. I used to have the shirt. Red star with a fist clenching a baseball bat. Bernie did love his minor league baseball.

[fastfred]

It's apparently in again.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/armpit-...ue-11657925530

after a short time you get used to it and it's a non issue you don't even notice or think about it