The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[rideit]

Yeah, I bet I haven’t stepped foot in there since fall tour ‘89.

[gravitylover]

Having the majority of my family in the Syracuse area, Roscoe's was a frequent stop. Has to be 20 years for me now easily.

You should take a ride over there, not for the diner but for the brewery across the street and the distillery up the road. They're both worth the trip. Then you can go up to the reservoir and stop at Al's Sport Shop and check out some local made log furniture (and a bunch of good fishing stuff).

[Core Shot]

Just drove through a fuckload of boring nothingness between Albany and Syracuse.

Is that the amazing “upstate” y’all are laying claim to?

I’ll take the Adirondacks any day. That’s some beautiful scenery

[riser4]

Just drove through a fuckload of boring nothingness between Albany and Syracuse.

Is that the amazing “upstate” y’all are laying claim to?

I’ll take the Adirondacks any day. That’s some beautiful scenery

Cool. Not that I approve of people traveling right now.

So can we remove the ADKs from "upstate" too? Please?

[ötzi]

Oh, you mean one of these? That's from the 2013 festival and has been relegated to yard work duty, as one could assume from the added ventilation.

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ha. If you ever go back, grab me an XL.

[Benny Profane]

Cool. Not that I approve of people traveling right now.

So can we remove the ADKs from "upstate" too? Please?

What is it with you and the ADKs? Essex county and the mountains aren't upstate? Where are they?

[Benny Profane]

Just drove through a fuckload of boring nothingness between Albany and Syracuse.

Is that the amazing “upstate” y’all are laying claim to?

I’ll take the Adirondacks any day. That’s some beautiful scenery

You should drive I-88 from Albany to Binghampton and get back to us. Much nicer than the thruway. It's actually marked scenic on the Rand Macnally maps. Take a right turn and drive up to Cooperstown and count how many time "Yankee" is used in the HOF.

[half-fast]

The thruway east of utica is pretty scenic.

[t-the-east]

What is it with you and the ADKs? Essex county and the mountains aren't upstate? Where are they?

The north country

[Core Shot]

The north country

Isn’t that Canada?

[ötzi]

The north country

The North Country is either part of Upstate, or it's all of Upstate, depending on your definition. But it is definitely Upstate no matter how you slice that shit.

[glademaster]

Yeah, the North Country is a sub-region of Upstate, like the Finger Lakes, or Capital Region.

[riser4]

Yeah, the North Country is a sub-region of Upstate, like the Finger Lakes, or Capital Region.

If Western NY gets to be excluded from upstate then the far cooler subregions should get a pass too.

[m2711c]

lottsa gold in upstate apparently.....

[rideit]

Just drove through a fuckload of boring nothingness between Albany and Syracuse.

Is that the amazing “upstate” y’all are laying claim to?

Thats the Leatherstocking region, n00b

[Brownski]

I thought we had agreed that it is all upstate. Nobody’s claiming it’s all beautiful. Parts of it are great. Other parts are boring as shit. Other parts are perpetually stuck in late 70s rust belt mode. Everything north and west of Westchester seems to be the consensus. My own little corner of mediocrity (Rockland County) and maybe Westchester County north of 287 are the only question marks as far as I can tell.

[ötzi]

You keep saying it's settled, everyone else keeps arguing about it.

[gravitylover]

The thruway east of utica is pretty scenic.

Yup

Even the flat nothingness kind of places are still kind of pretty especially during growing season. The variety of things being grown is pretty impressive and barring any disasters those areas are pretty damned productive, I find it easy to appreciate places like that. It's a different story during stick season though when all you've got is breweries and distilleries and different shades of grey to look at.

[Brownski]

You keep saying it's settled, everyone else keeps arguing about it.

I guess it’s hard to accept. I’m sure the city folks don’t want to be lumped in with LI as being part of downstate too but it is undeniable.

[Core Shot]

Thats the Leatherstocking region, n00b

Lol. I’m not from there. I don’t live there. #mcmurtry

But if they called it the lederhosen region it might help tourism.

The drndl and big titties and large mugs of beer would help tourism

[muted]

It's a different story during stick season though when all you've got is breweries and distilleries and different shades of grey to look at.

You could always spend a couple enjoyable hours looking at log furniture up there, is what I hear.

[Stu Gotz]

You should drive I-88 from Albany to Binghampton and get back to us. Much nicer than the thruway. It's actually marked scenic on the Rand Macnally maps. Take a right turn and drive up to Cooperstown and count how many time "Yankee" is used in the HOF.

Since were arguing here, drop the the P from Binghamton. Bing-um-ton.

[Benny Profane]

I thought we had agreed that it is all upstate. Nobody’s claiming it’s all beautiful. Parts of it are great. Other parts are boring as shit. Other parts are perpetually stuck in late 70s rust belt mode. Everything north and west of Westchester seems to be the consensus. My own little corner of mediocrity (Rockland County) and maybe Westchester County north of 287 are the only question marks as far as I can tell.

North of 287 is home to hundreds of thousands who train into the city everyday. No way. I mean, the White Plains station is an express stop on the Harlem, and then discharges commuters all the way up into Putnam. That's still the City.

[Benny Profane]

Since were arguing here, drop the the P from Binghamton. Bing-um-ton.

I always mess that one up.

[gravitylover]

North of 287 is home to hundreds of thousands who train into the city everyday. No way. I mean, the White Plains station is an express stop on the Harlem, and then discharges commuters all the way up into Putnam. That's still the City.

There are people commuting into the city from way further up the line than Putnam. I know people in the nether reaches of Dutchess County that daily, or at least a few days a week, commute all the way into the city, some from as far as the end of the line in Wassaic. There's no way you can call that downstate.