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New York is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec on the north and by Lake Ontario and Lake Erie on the northwest and west. Pennsylvania lies west and south of New York, and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean lie to the south. On the east the state is bordered by Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Albany is the capital of New York.

The climate of New York State is broadly representative of the humid continental type that prevails in the northeastern United States. The Great Lakes, ocean, rivers, and mountains give New York interesting weather.

The principal industries of New York are printing and publishing, industrial machinery and equipment, electronic equipment, and instruments. The convention and tourist business is also an important source of income. New York farms produce cattle and calves, corn and poultry, and vegetables and fruits. New York City is the nerve center of the nation. It is a leader in manufacturing, foreign trade, commerce and banking, book and magazine publishing, and theatrical production. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of New York at 19,297,729.

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Albany

Patsy Whitney

E-mail: pwhitney@coldwellbanker.com

Brooklyn click here

Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City in southeastern New York State, coextensive with Kings County, and situated at the southwestern end of Long Island. It is bounded on the north and east by the borough of Queens, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Upper and Lower New York bays and the East River. Brooklyn is both an important industrial center, with extensive deepwater harbor facilities, and a densely populated residential area, the most populous borough of New York City.

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Buffalo is located in western New York, at the mouth of the Buffalo River and at the head of the short but important Niagara River, which connects Lake Erie with Lake Ontario. A commercial and industrial community, Buffalo is the second largest city in the state, after the city of New York. Transportation is one of the city’s principal assets, as it has been throughout its history. Situated on the Great Lakes, it is a major inland port with access to raw materials, notably grains, from the Midwest; it also has a shipping outlet to the Atlantic Ocean through the Welland Ship Canal and St. Lawrence Seaway. The western terminus of the New York State Canal System is in Buffalo as well.

Canton

Richard Christy

E-mail: richbett@northnet.org

Cobleskill

Phil King

E-mail: phil@valleyviewrealty.com

Jamaica

Seibert Robinson

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Katonah

Renee Stengel

Katonah Real Estate

Long Island click here

Long Island is located in southeastern New York. It thrusts eastward from New York Bay to a point abreast of the Connecticut-Rhode Island state line, with Long Island Sound to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east. Long Island has become a major industrial center. The manufacture of transportation equipment, particularly aircraft, is one of the largest industries; the production of electrical equipment is also important.

Lynbrook

Hilary Becker

Lynbrook Real Estate

Manhattan

Brandy Farris

E-mail: CallBrandy@aol.com

New York City click here

New York City is the largest city in the United States, the home of the United Nations, and the center of global finance, communications, and business. NYC is unusual among cities because of its high residential density, its extraordinarily diverse population, its hundreds of tall office and apartment buildings, its thriving central business district, its extensive public transportation system, and its more than 400 distinct neighborhoods. The city’s concert houses, museums, galleries, and theaters constitute an ensemble of cultural richness rivaled by few cities. In 2000 the population of the city of New York was 8,008,278; the population of the metropolitan region was 21,199,865.

Queens

Abidur Rehman

Queens Real Estate

Rochester click here

Rochester is located in western New York, it is a deepwater port on the Genesee River and Lake Ontario. The city includes land on both sides of the Genesee River, which links the downtown area with Lake Ontario. Three waterfalls occur along the river’s course through the city: the Upper, Middle, and Lower falls.

White Plains

Joan P. Fried
Joan P. Fried's White Plains Real Estate
Phone: 914-946-9100
E-mail: joan@whiteplains-realestate.com
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Yonkers click here

Yonkers is located in southeastern New York, on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. It is a residential suburb in the city of New York metropolitan region, adjacent to The Bronx. The city’s large industrial base includes manufacturers of plastics and chemicals.

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Dairying is New York’s most important farming activity. More than one-half of the state’s farm income comes from the production of milk and cream. Most of the dairy production is sold as fluid milk, although butter and cheese are important products as well. The dairy areas are located in the Hudson, St. Lawrence, Black, and Mohawk valleys. Cattle and calves are also raised for beef production. Poultry products, including eggs, are also important. Poultry farms are concentrated on Long Island, which is famous for its ducks. Chickens and turkeys are also raised.

In the production of potatoes, New York ranks among the top dozen states. About one-third of the output comes from Long Island. The production of fruit is important in the state. In the late 1990s New York ranked second among the states in production of apples and in the top three states in production of grapes. Tart cherries, pears, and plums are also important crops. Most New York apples are grown in Wayne County east of Rochester and in the mid-Hudson Valley. The grapes come from vineyards along the Lake Erie shore and in the Finger Lakes region, although significant amounts of grapes for wine are grown in eastern Long Island. New York state’s wines are among the best wines produced in the United States.

In maple syrup production, New York competes with Vermont for top place among the states. The other important crops grown in New York include corn, onions, cabbage, and hay. The Ontario Lake plain south of Lake Ontario is the state’s vegetable-growing area and also has numerous flower and plant nurseries. Many of the vegetables grown there are canned or frozen.

Commercial and recreational fishing is carried on in the lower Great Lakes and in the waters surrounding Long Island. The lower Great Lakes system yields lake perch, bullheads, pike, and eel. Trout species such as lake, brown, and rainbow inhabit this system, along with coho and chinook salmon. Walleye and smallmouth bass are native to these waters, and muskellunge thrive in the upper Niagara and the St. Lawrence rivers, the connecting channels of the system. Long Island Sound is noted for its yield of oysters and clams; other sea-life taken in the sound include bluefish, striped bass, flounder, scup, and lobster. Water quality in the Hudson River has improved since the mid-1970s, so that alewife, blueback herring, striped bass, and Atlantic sturgeon are once again found there in number. American shad continue to run in the Hudson River each spring. In 1999 the total fish catch brought $76 million into the state’s economy.

While forestry is no longer a leading industry in the state, it is still important, particularly by supplying raw material for the state’s pulp and paper industry as well as hardwoods for furniture and veneers. Some softwoods are cut, including pines, spruces, and hemlocks, but most of the timber harvest consists of hardwoods, such as maple, birch, ash, and oak. It is these hardwoods that are used in the furniture industry. Beech, though widespread, suffers from an introduced disease and has little commercial value.

The mineral industry of New York is devoted principally to the production of nonmetallics. Leading this group are crushed stone, cement, salt, and sand and gravel for construction. Stones for both construction and ornamental uses are mined, the most important being limestone and dolomite. Salt, of which New York is one of the nation’s leading producers, comes from both mines and salt wells, in Livingston, Tompkins, Schuyler, Onondaga, Wyoming, and Yates counties. Sand and gravel are abundant in the glacial deposits of the state. Gypsum is mined in Erie and Genesee counties. Clay deposits are worked and used in the manufacture of bricks and pottery. Talc is recovered in several mines around Gouverneur, in St. Lawrence County. Garnets, used as an abrasive, are also mined in the southeastern Adirondacks. Other nonmetallic minerals produced include emery, lime, and wollastonite, which is used in ceramics, paints, and plastics.

Zinc deposits are worked in St. Lawrence County. Some lead is also extracted from these lead-zinc ores, and a little silver is recovered as a by-product of the ore. New York ranks third in zinc production. When it is profitable, iron ore is mined in Essex and St. Lawrence counties in the Adirondacks. There are natural gas wells in the southwestern portions of the state, in Cattaraugus, Allegany, Steuben, and Chautauqua counties.

New York’s leading industries, in terms of value added by manufacturing, are the printing and publishing industry, the manufacture of instruments, the production of electric and electronic devices, the chemical industry, the construction of industrial machinery, food processing, apparel and other textile manufacturing, and the fabrication of metal products. While the state remains one of the industrial powerhouses of the nation, manufacturing was in decline as a segment of the New York economy by the 1970s. Employment in the state’s industries fell by nearly one-quarter between 1983 and 1993. The decline was especially drastic in New York City, which lost more than two-fifths of its manufacturing jobs. Yet New York City, with its 1.7 million jobs, continues to dominate state employment. Contributing to the decline in manufacturing employment was the movement by some large corporations of their headquarters or operations from New York to neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut or to Southern and Western states. Between 1983 and 1993 the state lost about 328,000 manufacturing jobs. The decline is expected to continue into the next century, with estimates by the United States government anticipating a drop in manufacturing employment of more than 1 percent each year until the year 2005.

The New York City metropolitan area, including parts of eight counties, has many of the industrial workers in the state and generates much of the state’s industrial income. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany-Schenectady-Troy, Utica-Rome, and Binghamton are the other manufacturing centers of significance.

Printing and publishing are the leading source of industrial jobs. The high-value printing and publishing industry is heavily concentrated in the New York City metropolitan area.

The instruments industry is centered at Rochester, which is noted for its cameras and optical goods. Other instruments manufactured in quantity in New York are those used in navigation, surgery and medicine, and measuring electricity.

The electrical and electronics industry is a large single source of manufacturing jobs in New York. New York City, Nassau and Suffolk counties, Syracuse, Schenectady, and Utica are major centers of this industry. Schenectady, the home town of the General Electric Company, is a center for the production of electric generators and other major electrical equipment.

The production of chemicals ranks high among New York’s industrial activities. Chemicals produced include pharmaceuticals, a variety of goods for the household bath, plastics, and synthetic rubbers.

The manufacture of industrial machinery is led by the construction of refrigeration and heating equipment. Many workers are employed building turbines and generators, while other machines built include internal combustion engines, air and gas compressors, and peripheral equipment for computers.

The food-processing industry is also important. Buffalo is a leading flour-milling center and has some meat-packing. Wine, cheese, butter, cereals, and bakery and brewery products are processed at numerous locations. There are huge sugar refineries and coffee and spice warehouses in Brooklyn, New York City.

The apparel industry, though declining, is still a major source of jobs and continues to thrive in low-wage immigrant areas of New York City, which remains a center for the manufacture of women’s clothes and fur garments. Outside of New York City, Rochester was long noted for men’s and boys’ clothing, while Binghamton, Endicott, and Johnstown were centers for leather products. Troy was famous as a shirt-making center.

Except for its minimal production of natural gas, New York state lacks mineral fuels. However, its hydroelectric power resources are extensive. Two of the largest hydroelectric developments in the western world are at Niagara Falls and on the St. Lawrence River. The St. Lawrence Power Project was developed jointly by New York state and the province of Ontario, Canada, at the same time that the St. Lawrence Seaway was under construction. Hydroelectric plants generate 15 percent of the electricity produced in the state. Another 58 percent of it comes from steam plants burning fossil fuels, and the remainder comes from nuclear plants. In 2001 New York had 6 nuclear power plants in operation. Three nuclear plants were at Scriba, two were at Indian Point, and one was at Oswego.

The combination of scenic beauty, a colorful history, and the attractions of New York City and other cities have made New York a very popular vacation state. Whether viewed from the Adirondacks’ mile-high Mount Marcy or from New York City’s famous Empire State Building, New York’s panoramas are unusual and impressive. Perhaps the state’s most famous spectacle is Niagara Falls, which draws millions of visitors each year.

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