The Republicans lost a congressional district in a special election in upstate New York.
With ready access to markets, settlers moved into upstate New York and western territories.
In Vermont and upstate New York, floodwaters cascaded through towns, bordering rivers and creeks.
James Howard Kunstler, a writer in upstate New York, has thought a lot about America's longtime dance with oil.
Mr Tedisco says he would not have voted for the stimulus package, while Mr Murphy says it will bring 76,000 badly needed jobs to upstate New York.
In 1978, Love Canal, located near Niagara Falls in upstate New York, was a nice little working-class enclave with hundreds of houses and a school.
In upstate New York, I'll see elderly people with grandchildren. I just try to write great songs and whatever category they put them in, cool.
Shore is also a successful teacher of photography at Bard College in upstate New York – a secondary career of which, one senses, Adams would not approve.
But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks - and loving it.
With only 800 sq feet of space, the Silo House is a unique arrangement of circular and orthogonal elements, giving a nod to the upstate New York architectural vernacular that surrounds it.
In the summers the families migrated to country houses, the Bogarts to upstate New York, the Hemingways to northern Michigan, where the fathers taught the sons to hunt and to fish.
The thrill of seeing my first hummingbird in my upstate New York garden has never left me -- the sight of this unbelievably tiny creature with dazzling plumage flitting boldly from flower to flower.
