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The U.S. state of New York contains 26 congressional districts. Each district elects one member of the United States House of Representatives to represent it. [1]The state was redistricted in 2022, following the 2020 U.S. census.
New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788. Prior to declaring its independence, New York was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which it in turn obtained from the Dutch as the colony of New Netherland; see the list of colonial governors and the list of directors-general of New Netherland for the ...
Biden dominated core Democratic constituencies in New York City, winning 76% of the city's vote. [61] Statewide, Biden won 94% of Black voters and 76% of Latino voters. [61] Biden won the upstate of New York (excluding New York City's results), albeit by a much smaller 52.4% to 45.9% margin, or 2,923,127 votes to Trump's 2,561,315.
On April 1, 1788, after extensive machinations by various speculators, Massachusetts' pre-emptive right over all western New York Lands — comprising some 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km 2) — was sold to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, both of Massachusetts.
In the Holdridge life zones system, having a mean annual biotemperature above 53.6 °F (12 °C) and mean annual precipitation above 39.4 inches (1,000 mm), New York City features a warm temperate moist forest climate. [12]
Massena is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States.Massena is along the county's northern border, just south of the St. Lawrence River and the Three Nations Crossing of the Canada–United States border.
Ithaca is in the rural Finger Lakes region about 225 miles (362 km) northwest of New York City; the nearest larger cities, Binghamton and Syracuse, are an hour's drive away by car, Rochester and Scranton are two hours, Buffalo and Albany are three hours. New York City, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Ottawa are approximately four hours away.
Saks opened a large department store in 1902 in New York City's Herald Square on 34th Street and Broadway (at 1293–1311 Broadway). [19] [5]: 2 Andrew Saks ran the New York store as a family affair with his brother Isadore, and his sons Horace and William. Andrew Saks died in 1912 and his son Horace took over the company's management.