New York Regions

[popowich]

I want to take the New York regional forums and consolidate them into larger tourism regions. Chautauqua and Niagara become Western New York, etc.
Would Central New York be considered a subsection of the Finger Lakes region? Northern New York is 1000 Islands, Adirondacks, etc. New York City is it's own. I'm not sure what to do with the Capital Region / Catskills / Hudson Valley. Does that have a more generic name? Southern NY seems to include New York City. I'm looking to get this down to 5-6 forums. Thanks!

Tentative list:

Western New York
Finger Lakes / Central New York ?
Northern New York
Capital Region
Catskills and Hudson Valley
New York City

-Raymond

[Kaos]

Hudson Valley has always been considered part of the Capital Region when I lived out in Albany, so I would consolidate them. People typically search for Adirondacks, locally either by "Adirondacks" or "North Country" in case you care about keywording it up.
Finger Lakes are hard, I always thought of them as NY but it could go either way with WNY or CNY really. No clue what you do with the Catskills LOL!

[esnagel]

I'd go with Adirondack Region over Northern New York

[popowich]

Western, Central, Northern, Eastern, Southern, and New York City all with regional descriptions for each to avoid confusion then?

You are right about the finger lakes. I'm from Buffalo so I associate Rochester as being closer to Buffalo not Syracuse.

-Raymond

[yukon]

people from down here (tri-state area) generally refer (incorrectly) to anything north of the tappenzee bridge to being "upstate" You can probably call Capital Region / Catskills / Hudson Valley as upstate.

[popowich]

Upstate New York is the region of New York State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York) north of the core of the New York metropolitan area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area). It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population.

According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_New_York) that's the definition.

Upstate is basically everything north of New York City acorss the state to Buffalo, but below the Adirondacks region.

-Raymond