Downstate 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. ect.
So anything north of Poughkeepsie basically, like Ulster and Columbia counties.
Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Southern Dutchess Counties.
Includes: City of Rye, Peekskill, Newburgh, Middletown, Beacon, Port Jervis, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains, ect. ect.
So anything north of Poughkeepsie basically, like Ulster and Columbia counties.
by Finch31 May 7, 2005
Get the upstate new york mug.shit hole of a city where elementry students come to school drunk,music teachers spaz on kids because they are doing there work.. people hide behind the library sniffing glue to get high.. old women stand in the middle of the intersection by the parkland mall staring off into space for fun then go home when theres no traffic.. "where a hot guy named Matt lives" says the person beside me! the skateboard park by the ghallger centre is the hottest place to smoke weed! everybody is either a slut is fat fugly or has serious issues! YORKTON HOME OF THE FATTEST WHORES SLUTS AND PROSTITUTES!! people arent scared of druggys murderers or creepers creepin on them cuz there so used to it.. some babys were born with a cigarette in there mouth.. everyone hails lisa ann like shes a goddess.. people who live in yorkton diss that shitty place and hate the people who brought them there.. apparently babies are born in churches not hospitals.. thereallways in competition with melfort! Yorkton hit a serious tragedy on canada day of 2010 when DQ was demolished by water, yorkton workers said itll take a year to rebuild a better DQ grand opening Canada day of 2011.. they only had the foundation done then they said oh well next canada day of 2012. then when that comes we will have another flash flooditll destroy DQ again and they'll say screw it, proving how lazy fat asses live in yorkton.. Yorkton a shit hole of a city where its so bad the yorktonians writenshit about it on urban dictionary! :)
by hometown yorktonian July 13, 2011
Get the Yorkton mug.The part of New York state whose inhabitants (like myself, who has NEVER lived outside upstate New York) are generally dismissed by people from downstate New York as "not real New Yorkers." In New York's 2000 U. S. Senate Election Republican Rick Lazio was only polite upstate because he needed us but, to her credit, Hillary Rodham Clinton made an effort to learn as much as possible about upstate.
Sure, there's no theatre, only the Buffalo Bills among sports teams, and no opera, but it was UPSTATE that hosted the Winter Olympics twice and downstate that hasn't hosted either type of the Olympics once.
The stereotype of New Yorkers (downstate AND UPSTATE) being rude also has varying degrees of truth among almost all 19,000,000 people in the state, so upstate New Yorkers shouldn't get self-congratulatory about politeness either.
Sure, there's no theatre, only the Buffalo Bills among sports teams, and no opera, but it was UPSTATE that hosted the Winter Olympics twice and downstate that hasn't hosted either type of the Olympics once.
The stereotype of New Yorkers (downstate AND UPSTATE) being rude also has varying degrees of truth among almost all 19,000,000 people in the state, so upstate New Yorkers shouldn't get self-congratulatory about politeness either.
I've lived in upstate New York, there are a handful of rude people there too, but it's more conducive to vehicle ownership.
by upstater; can't live downstate February 4, 2009
Get the upstate new york mug.A state where 98% of its area gets a bad rap from 2%. There's a helluva lot more to New York than the City.
I'm from Upstate New York.
by Don October 26, 2003
Get the new york mug.The second safest big city in the United States. Over 8M people with under 700 murders a year, and decreasing. The Capital of the World. The best sports teams, best pizza, best hot dogs. Strongest "Cosa Nostra" (mafia) families through out all the USA. The opposite of California, which is stuffed full of crime, murder, rape, surfers, and lazy-ass people who don't work a day in their lives. New York, the most famous city in the entire world, the best city in the world, the ONLY city in the world!
New York is statistically the second safest big city in the USA. It is also home to the best of everything, from sports, to museams, to buildings, to food, and everything else. Also the best subway system in the world.
by John Petosa June 25, 2003
Get the New York mug.Clearly Sports best team. A total of 26 world championships and numerous pennants. Their rival team the Red Sox suck ass. Whenever theres a fight on the feild, the Red Sux are knocked out cold.
by Bronx Bomber May 14, 2005
Get the New York Yankees mug.by dawggggg August 25, 2008
Get the Rome New York mug.