Challenge: Post something you like about New York WITHOUT mentioning New York City.

[Danger Mouse]

As an upstater, I don't think we get enough credit. So give it a shot...something good about New York, outside of New York City.
Can you do it? :)

[BeachBaby]

1. Finger Lakes!!!!

Absolutely gorgeous. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. I'd love to visit that area!

The pianist in my trio is trying to arrange for us to give a recital at a B&B that a friend of hers owns. :bounce:

[surrealAmerican]

42. That was my first thought as well ...

... absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous in the springtime. Also mid-October anywhere along the southern tier, when the leaves are turning and the hillsides just glow.

[EastTennesseeDem]

2. The Bills

As a Titans fan, I have one particularly fond memory of the Bills.

And it was a lateral, by the way.

[flvegan]

3. Easy. The Beastie Boys!

Killing on Letterman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcqoP1HjiXs

[PaddyBlueEyes]

4. Anchor Bar wings, Petes Red hots

Beef on weck...Muff State coeds on Chippewa Street and the DKT house in Geneseo!!

[Danger Mouse]

5. Petes Red hot. Damn good.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Niagara Falls

[crimsonblue]

7. I like the fact that New York is a state. n/t

[Lyric]

8. Crescenzo's Pizza at the five points intersection in Utica, NY

Or at least, I did in 1999. No idea if that place is still there.

[Chan790]

9. Cheap bars in downtown Yonkers. n/m

[sohndrsmith]

10. Olana. Bearsville. Upstate Films. The (1st)Towne Crier. Stormville Flea Market. Quaker Hill n/t

[Danger Mouse]

15. I see you are familiar with my area of NY.

:)

[sohndrsmith]

25. Cool! I grew up in Dutchess Co. Went to college in Manhattan - lovely variety isn't there? n/t

[greenbriar]

11. Broadway

enough said

[Danger Mouse]

16. That's New York City! Doesn't count!!!

Bzzzzt!

[Lavender Brown]

39. Technically, Route 9 is Broadway.

:rofl:

[TZ]

12. Corning NY...

Not only is that area of NY gorgeous, but the Corning glass ware factory a very cool place to visit!

[malta blue]

13. The Adirondacks. eom.

[DarkTirade]

14. White hots.

[Inchworm]

17. country chicks

and her lips

:woohoo:

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. The Baseball Hall of Fame

There. That wasn't so hard. :)

[Robeson]

19. Up-state NY is one of the most beautiful areas in this country in the ....

...summer-time. I used to spend a lot of summers up there in Rochester, laying on the beaches of Lake Ontario, and traveling the wine regions along the finger lakes. Beautiful area. If I had the money - which I know I never will - I'd have a summer home in up-state NY.

[JenaLaw]

20. Lake Placid

home of the Winter Olympics for many years

[Lucian]

21. The Adirondacks are really beautiful.

And I love Lake Champlain.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. The New York State Thruway...

Between I84 and the Berkshire Spur....

It's a beautiful drive!

[mdmc]

34. One of my fav. MA things... CULTURAL PITTSFIELD

(minutes from the NYS border)!

[LSdemocrat]

23. Best thing in the state: Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY

[emilyg]

24. Ithaca.

[WinkyDink]

26. Rhinebeck; C.I.A.; FDR home at Hyde Park; Saratoga Springs.

[Danger Mouse]

28. Another person who knows my part of the state.

:hi:

[THUNDER HANDS]

27. New York City as in the five boroughs, or as in Manhattan?

outside of that, I really like Jones Beach in the summertime and the Hamptons, as well as the Nassau Coliseum for Islanders games and Adventureland.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

29. Archie Comics

I very nearly went to Mamaroneck when I was little.

[Ohio Joe]

30. Bear Mountain State Park

http://www.hudsonriver.com/bearmtn.htm

Beautiful place.

There is also Lake Peekskill. When I was a kid, we used to go up there and watch motorcycle racing on the frozen lake.

[NJmaverick]

31. The Giants hold their training camp in the Albany area

and that area is pretty nice, especially up by Sarratoga.

[mdmc]

32. Woodstock!

Bethel!
Newburgh fool!

[JVS]

33. Love Canal

[Ptah]

35. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere

[fight4my3sons]

36. the Gunks

Dutchess County Fair, SPAC, Breakneck, Storm King Mtn, The Catskill Mtns

[LynzM]

48. Hey, you took mine!

:P

Ok, not all the other ones, just the Gunks... been a few years since I've made it out that way, but I'd like to again, eventually...

[fight4my3sons]

49. It's changed quite a bit.

You can't just park on the side of the road and hike or climb anymore. Now you have to pay to park in the designated areas that are almost always packed full. I grew up in Dutchess County, went to school at New Paltz. Met my husband, a climber, while at school. We used to cut class and spend hours out there. We got married at the Mohonk Mtn House. Those Gunks are truly a special place for us. :hi:

[LynzM]

52. Oh, wow, awesome :)

I can't imagine how cool it was to be part of it back then... I climbed there a bit in 99-01, but even then, you had to pay to park/camp, etc. Was still fun, but I'm sure not at all the same vibe! :hi:

[madinmaryland]

37. Poughkeepsie. And DON'T call it upstate!

[Richardo]

38. Late summer upstate sweet corn at like $2/doz and you eat 6 of them at a time without butter or salt

:9

[Crabby Appleton]

40. Easy - BNL

[Jamastiene]

43. Easy!

Ampersand, a hardcore punk band from Syracuse, was one of the greatest fucking bands of the 90s. Not to mention that the hardcore punk scene in upstate New York is the fucking greatest. Dracula Jones and Jeff Jones' latest is ALWAYS great too. They treated me like gold and I love them to this day. There's nothing like them.

[Deja Q]

44. "Night Court"

:P

[Arugula Latte]

45. Hudson River Valley

[astral]

46. Neil Diamond

'nuff said.

[MrSlayer]

47. The Islanders used to be a great team.

25-30 years ago. I had a lot of fun as a kid going up there.

[jakefrep]

50. Saratoga Springs

The Baseball Hall of Fame.

[Strong Atheist]

51. The girl I was most in love/lust/whatever with in my life went

to a college in the western part of the state (Alfred). A friend lived near Schenectady...