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The State of New York has [[Big Applesauce|a very large city]], [[New York State|a bunch of its suburbs, several other cities, a fair bit of rural area to the west, and a bunch of pretty mountains to the north]]. Nowadays, nobody really remembers that anything outside of [[New York City]] exists ("not like there's anything up there anyway" but say that to an Upstate dweller at your own risk), although Buffalo was a very big deal back in the day after the Erie Canal. Syracuse has a college which, due to its good journalism program, often gets name-dropped in the news far more often than it probably deserves. Parts of Eastern Upstate New York, especially towns like [[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]], can be considered out-of-New-England branches of [[Lovecraft Country]]. The other parts of it south of the Adirondacks include the Capitol District, the metro area of state capital Albany. Tropers might care about Schenectady (Albany's neighbor) for trivia value, as it is home to General Electric, which parented the [[wikipedia:WRGB|world's first television station]] and [[NBC]]'s first affiliate (though they're CBS now). The legislature in Albany carries on a 200 year tradition of [[1776|talking "very loud, and very fast, and nobody listens to anybody else, with the result that nothing ever gets done."]]
New York has a long history of progressive social activism—Rochester and Seneca Falls were hubs of the abolitionist and women's rights movements in the 19th century, it was the first state to legalize abortion on demand in 1970, and
===[[Joisey|New Jersey]]===
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