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Ithaca, New York. / 42.44333°N 76.50000°W / 42.44333; -76.50000. Ithaca ( / ˈɪθəkə /) is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area.
Website. www .town .ithaca .ny .us. Ithaca is a town in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The town's population was 22,283 at the 2020 census. [ 2] The town is in the central part of the county, in the Finger Lakes – Southern Tier region of New York, and is part of the Ithaca Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The former airport site is now Cass Park, including a hangar which was renovated in 1975 to house the Hangar Theatre. [12] In 1946, Cornell University and the city of Ithaca began planning for a new airport on East Hill on the university-owned land in Lansing, New York. [13] East Hill Airport opened in 1948 with Robinson Airlines as its primary ...
Ithaca College was founded as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1892 when a local violin teacher, William Grant Egbert, rented four rooms and arranged for the instruction of eight students. For nearly seven decades the institution flourished in the city of Ithaca, adding to its music curriculum the study of elocution , dance, physical ...
Ithaca’s Common Council recently discussed hiring a grant writing consultant to help the city apply for New York's annual $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) award.
The Museum of the Earth is a natural history museum located in Ithaca, New York. The museum was opened in 2003 as part of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), an independent organization pursuing research and education in the history of the Earth and its life. Both PRI and the Museum of the Earth are formally affiliated with Cornell ...
In 1921, the City of Ithaca purchased the former Renwick Park land and opened it to the public. Mayor Stewart died before the official opening of the park on July 4, 1921, leaving the city 150,000 to the city for the park. Renwick Park was renamed Stewart Park in his honor. In 1934, the park's land was raised by several feet to reduce flooding.
Ithaca Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. The district consists of 64 contributing mostly commercial buildings. It is composed mainly of multi-story buildings with brick exteriors and flat or low-pitched roofs fronted by a variety of parapets set off by decorative cornices.