by Anonymous July 23, 2003

Anything, ho ho, and I mean *ANYTHING* that's not the five boroughs of New York City. Long Island is NOT part of the city, thus is is Upstate. FACE IT FAGGOTS!!!!! YOU ARE UPSTATE!!!!!
by Jared April 13, 2006

Anything, and I mean *ANYTHING*, that's not one of the five boros of New York. Fuck you Long Island you upstate hicks, go suck cock on your gayass little beaches.
by NYCRox March 18, 2005

A person from Upstate New York. Usually equipped with a Syracuse University t-shirt, a plaid flannel t, Pabst Blue Ribbon or Saranac, and a North Face jacket. Often very angered when you ask them if they're from the City or when Westchester is included as part of Upstate.
by OrangeSabre December 28, 2014

Jail. The same thing as up north. Comes from New York, where thug niggaz get sent to the penitentiary upstate of the city.
by Nick D January 13, 2004

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.
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.
So anything north of Poughkeepsie basically, like Ulster and Columbia counties.
by Finch31 May 6, 2005
