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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 84433, member: 59"]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Yup on the New Yorker's definition of "upstate." Having been born and (mostly) grown up on "The Island," "upstate" was anything north of "The City." And people in "The City" didn't make much distinction between the 2 counties into which "The Island" was divided about 1900 (creating Nassau County out of what used to be the non-City part of Queens County.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 84433, member: 59"]:) Yup on the New Yorker's definition of "upstate." Having been born and (mostly) grown up on "The Island," "upstate" was anything north of "The City." And people in "The City" didn't make much distinction between the 2 counties into which "The Island" was divided about 1900 (creating Nassau County out of what used to be the non-City part of Queens County.)[/QUOTE]
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