Is New York part of New England?

[WorldWacky]

I live on Long Island. We’re definitely not part of New England. (To be fair, Long Island doesn’t really feel like it belongs much with the rest of New York beyond the City. )

 

[firefly_ris]

I live in Buffalo. It's more like the midwest here.

 

[tinkerbellandpeterpan]

I lived on Long Island for about 40 years. It has as much to do with Rhode Island as it does with California which is to say....not a thing.

 

[lynxstch]

Sorry ..but I’ve been told differently

Then you were told mistakenly, it's not a part of it

 

[NYCgrrl]

As a born and bred NYer (state and city) I’d be happy for us to claim RI but not gonna happen.
No part of NYS is part of NE and well I doubt if they’d have us rotflmao

 

[tvguy]

I live in Buffalo. It's more like the midwest here.

LOL, but what is the MIDWEST?
With Lebanon, Kansas being the exact middle of the U.S., I have never understood how anything East of that point can be the Midwest, yet most of that area is considered the midwest.
Physically, the Midwest is Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North and South Dakota etc.
Not sure how St. Louis, with is 500 miles EAST of the middle of the nation, can be Midwest.

 

[firefly_ris]

LOL, but what is the MIDWEST?
With Lebanon, Kansas being the exact middle of the U.S., I have never understood how anything East of that point can be the Midwest, yet most of that area is considered the midwest.
Physically, the Midwest is Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North and South Dakota etc.
Not sure how St. Louis, with is 500 miles EAST of the middle of the nation, can be Midwest.

I dunno, I'm from Baltimore originally. I don't get it either. But when I go to places like Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin or Illinois, Western New York feels more like those places. I guess maybe it's more like a Great Lakes thing. The lower part of NYS is mid-atlantic more like where I grew up.

 

[anniemae]

New England is made up of:

Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine


So to answer your question,No, New York is not part of New England.


I feel like this question was asked to rile people up. LOL. Nobody has said Yes. So far.

 

[gmi3804]

NY is part of two tri-state areas, NY/NJ/PA and NYC/NJ/CT

And the northbound signs on their highways have New England as a point further north.

 

[Genie+]

Midway going west - midwest? Somewhere along the way of “Go west young man”

 

[wabbott]

Well, it was a part of New Netherland at one time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Apparently, I'm the only one who thought the Rhode Island/Long Island connection was a joke. I laughed.

 

[Stargazer65]

I feel like this question was asked to rile people up. LOL. Nobody has said Yes. So far.

I would NEVER do such a thing!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Originally from New York (Finger Lakes Region) and now live in New England (southeastern Massachusetts) - definitely not the same!

 

[Robbie Cottam]

Hard NO! Full Stop….

Suggesting that New York is part of New England is considered offensive by some….

Now most of Cranston, and Providence think they live in New York. But still doesn’t make it so

 

[Debbie Jean]

Apparently, I'm the only one who thought the Rhode Island/Long Island connection was a joke. I laughed.

Nope, me too! I have to say when I saw the poll, I thought it was a joke… was waiting for the punch line LOL

With family roots deep in NH, growing up in Boston, my ex being from LI and having lived in NJ for over 40 years, hard for me to imagine anyone even ask such a question!

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Nope, me too! I have to say when I saw the poll, I thought it was a joke… was waiting for the punch line LOL

With family roots deep in NH, growing up in Boston, my ex being from LI and having lived in NJ for over 40 years, hard for me to imagine anyone even ask such a question!

I feel comfortable that we're right & it was a joke. I'm surprised so many people took it seriously.

Now, watch @GAN come back & tell us she/he was totally serious.

 

[Micca]

While we're at it, can we get some consensus on New England/New Zealand?

 

[wabbott]

While we're at it, can we get some consensus on New England/New Zealand?

It was a practice of early explorers to name newly "discovered" lands in the New World after their homelands. So an argument can be made there is an oblique connection.

According to Wikipedia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Zealand

In 1645 Dutch cartographers changed the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, from Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland.[16]

 

[AppleDumpling]

LOL, but what is the MIDWEST?
With Lebanon, Kansas being the exact middle of the U.S., I have never understood how anything East of that point can be the Midwest, yet most of that area is considered the midwest.
Physically, the Midwest is Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North and South Dakota etc.
Not sure how St. Louis, with is 500 miles EAST of the middle of the nation, can be Midwest.

Because it follows the history of the westward expansion of the US. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase in the early 19th century, the western Great Lakes states (north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi), were known as the Northwest Territory. (Which is why Northwestern University is in Illinois.) Later acquisition of land (formerly Texas, Mexico, and the Oregon Territory) extended the country’s border all the way to the west coast. With a new Northwest (often called Pacific Northwest), the old Northwest became known as the Midwest.