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| | No one knows for sure why New Yorkers call their city “The Big Apple.” Some say the name was coined by jazz musicians who opted to move to Manhattan and were therefore picking the metaphorical “Big Apple” off the tree. Others say the name derives from a horserace that had something big and apple-like for a prize. This prize was so big, in fact, that it was comparable in size with the city; to... |  |
| Ithaca's primary claim to fame (besides the fact that the name reminds us of Homer's Odyssey) is Cornell University, but its bird-filled forests, babbling brooks, impressive rocky gorges (which inspire the ubiquitous, slightly cheesy, "Ithaca is gorges" t-shirts), and proximity to the five Finger Lakes also add to its beauty and charm. As in most college towns, its population fluctuates depending... |
| The best thing about upstate New York is its forests, rivers, lakes, and mountains, and no neighboring landscape holds a candle to the vast, green Adirondack Park, a large tract of publicly protected land that is by far the biggest park in the country (larger, they say, than Yellowstone, Glacier, the Everglades, and Grand Canyon National Park combined). Created in 1892 due to an evironmental... |
| Lake Placid is a small town, but is still one of the bigger towns in the Adirondacks. Featuring a charming main street, made up of cozy boutiques, bookshops, and cafes, and a few threads of residential neighborhoods, stores, fitness centers, and schools, it is located along Mirror Lake (not Lake Placid, odd as it seems), and is a bustling center of winter sport activity. Lake Placid hosted the... |
| Albany, the capital of New York state, is a pleasant, countrified town compared to its dizzyingly metropolitan neighbor (New York City is practically a state unto itself, and has very little to do with the look and feel of its upstate cousins). Though for this reason it has been nicknamed "Smallbany" in certain circles, there are still many things going for it: upwards of one hundred thousand... |
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