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The suburbs of NYC as defined by the New York State Dept of Tourism:

Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Southern Dutchess Counties.

Includes: City of Rye, Peekskill, Newburgh, Middletown, Beacon, Port Jervis, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains, ect.
Were ya from:

"Downstate NY"
downstate by Finch31 April 30, 2005
Downstate= NYC metro area.
Upstate= Not NYC metro area.
Downstate by Hahawa October 5, 2004
A place in Pennsylvania from which asshole flatlanders move to places in the higher elevations to fuck them up, too.
Go back downstate where you came from, you fucking flatlander!
downstate by Gladnottobeone April 1, 2004
A term used by suburbanites to describe the New York metro area. To city people it's not "upstate" and "downstate", it's New York City and the rest of the state.
downstate by Anonymous October 21, 2003
*noun*

*A term used primarily in the upper region of South Carolina to refer to the prisons or detention centers, most of which are located in Columbia. Commonly used in local vernacular to denote the area where inmates are sent to serve their sentences.*
He got caught and now he's doing time downstate
A term used in the upper region of South Carolina using to be referred to Columbia as most of SC’s Major Prisons and Detention Centers are in Columbia
This term is mostly used in the counties of York,Spartanburg, Lancaster, Cherokee and More
Yo boogie just got knocked he getting sent downstate
downstate by Cambruh42 June 17, 2024