List of cities in New York

This List of the 62 cities in New York State, USA, is an alphabetic list that also gives the primary county in which each city is located.

Except for Sherrill, the cities are distinct from towns. Geneva is the only city in more than one county.

This list is complete, do not add or remove any municipalities from this list unless that place has legally changed its incorporation.

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City	County	Population ^[1] (2010 census)	Incorporation date
Albany	Albany	97,856	1686
Amsterdam	Montgomery	18,620	1830
Auburn	Cayuga	27,687	1848
Batavia	Genesee	16,256	1915
Beacon	Dutchess	13,808	1913
Binghamton	Broome	47,376	1867
Buffalo	Erie	261,310	1832
Canandaigua	Ontario	11,264	1913
Cohoes	Albany	16,168	1869
Corning	Steuben	10,842	1890
Cortland	Cortland	18,740	1900
Dunkirk	Chautauqua	13,131	1888
Elmira	Chemung	29,200	1864
Fulton	Oswego	11,855	1902
Geneva	Ontario^[A]	13,617	1898
Glen Cove	Nassau	26,964	1918
Glens Falls	Warren	14,700	1908
Gloversville	Fulton	15,665	1890
Hornell	Steuben	9,019	1888
Hudson	Columbia	7,524	1785
Ithaca	Tompkins	30,014	1888
Jamestown	Chautauqua	31,146	1886
Johnstown	Fulton	8,511	1895
Kingston	Ulster	23,893	1872
Lackawanna	Erie	18,141	1909
Little Falls	Herkimer	5,188	1895
Lockport	Niagara	21,165	1865
Long Beach	Nassau	35,462	1922
Mechanicville	Saratoga	5,019	1915
Middletown	Orange	28,086	1888
Mount Vernon	Westchester	67,292	1892
New Rochelle	Westchester	77,062	1889
New York	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond	8,175,133	1653^[B]
Newburgh	Orange	28,866	1865
Niagara Falls	Niagara	50,193	1892
North Tonawanda	Niagara	31,568	1897
Norwich	Chenango	7,355	1914
Ogdensburg	St. Lawrence	11,346	1868
Olean	Cattaraugus	15,347	1854
Oneida	Madison	10,987	1901
Oneonta	Otsego	13,901	1908
Oswego	Oswego	18,142	1848
Peekskill	Westchester	23,583	1940
Plattsburgh	Clinton	19,989	1902
Port Jervis	Orange	8,860	1907
Poughkeepsie	Dutchess	32,736	1854
Rensselaer	Rensselaer	9,392	1897
Rochester	Monroe	210,565	1834
Rome	Oneida	32,850	1870
Rye	Westchester	14,955	1942
Salamanca	Cattaraugus	6,097	1913
Saratoga Springs	Saratoga	28,499	1915
Schenectady	Schenectady	66,135	1798
Sherrill	Oneida	3,147	1916
Syracuse	Onondaga	145,170	1848
Tonawanda	Erie	16,136	1904
Troy	Rensselaer	50,129	1816
Utica	Oneida	62,235	1832
Watertown	Jefferson	27,023	1869
Watervliet	Albany	10,207	1896
White Plains	Westchester	56,853	1916
Yonkers	Westchester	195,976	1872

[edit] Extremes in size and population

The most populous and largest city in the state is New York, with a population of over 8.2 million inhabitants and comprising just over 300 square miles (800 km²) of land (468.87 square miles (1,210 km²) total area, which includes water). The least populous city is Sherrill, with just 3,147 inhabitants in 2000. The smallest city by area is Mechanicville, which covers 0.91 square miles (2.4 km²) (of which 0.08 square miles (0.2 km²) is water).^[1]

[edit] See also

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List of city nicknames in New York

[edit] Footnotes

^ Geneva is located within both the counties of Ontario and Seneca, although the section in Seneca County has no population and is all water.^[2]
^ 1653 is the officially recognized date.^[3] Peter Stuyvesant convinced the States-General of the Netherlands to charter the city of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1653.^[4] The English envoy, Richard Nicolls, renamed the city "New York" two days after capturing it in 1664.^[5] Provincial governor Thomas Dongan rechartered the city under the auspices of the Duke of York in 1683,^[6] though the charter was not published until 1686.^[7] Finally, New York was reincorporated to include all five of its present boroughs in 1898.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "New York -- Place and County Subdivision". US Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US36&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-PH1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1_ZI1&-format=ST-7&-_sse=on. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
^ USGS (ACME mapper). Overview of Geneva city near county borders (Map). http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.85857,-76.97120&z=15&t=T&marker0=42.86668%2C-76.98509%2CGeneva%5C%2C%20New%20York. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
^ "New York 1653–1953", The New York Times (New York, New York), 1953-02-02, ISSN 0362-4331, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E15FF3D5B107A93C0A91789D85F478585F9, retrieved 2009-05-24
^ Roosevelt, Theodore (1891), New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, New York, New York: Longmans, Green, p. 30, OCLC 2306039, http://www.bartleby.com/171/, retrieved 2009-05-24, "It was under Stuyvesant, in 1653, that the town was formally incorporated as a city"
^ Roosevelt, Theodore (1891), New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, New York, New York: Longmans, Green, p. 46, OCLC 2306039, http://www.bartleby.com/171/, retrieved 2009-05-24, "The expedition against New Amsterdam had been organized with the Duke of York, afterward King James II., as its special patron, and the city was rechristened in his honor."
^ Roosevelt, Theodore (1891), New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, New York, New York: Longmans, Green, p. 56, OCLC 2306039, http://www.bartleby.com/171/, retrieved 2009-05-24, "Under the influence of Dongan, he did indeed grant to the city itself a charter of special rights and privileges"
^ Dongan, Thomas (1694), The charter of the city of New-York, New York, New York: William Bradford, OCLC 55899385, http://www.archive.org/stream/dongancharterofc00newyrich/dongancharterofc00newyrich_djvu.txt, retrieved 2009-05-24

[notea] Geneva is located within both the counties of Ontario and Seneca, although the section in Seneca County has no population and is all water.^[2]

[noteb] 1653 is the officially recognized date.^[3] Peter Stuyvesant convinced the States-General of the Netherlands to charter the city of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1653.^[4] The English envoy, Richard Nicolls, renamed the city "New York" two days after capturing it in 1664.^[5] Provincial governor Thomas Dongan rechartered the city under the auspices of the Duke of York in 1683,^[6] though the charter was not published until 1686.^[7] Finally, New York was reincorporated to include all five of its present boroughs in 1898.

[censustable-0] "New York -- Place and County Subdivision". US Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US36&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-PH1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1_ZI1&-format=ST-7&-_sse=on. Retrieved 2010-06-08.

[GenevaUSGS-1] USGS (ACME mapper). Overview of Geneva city near county borders (Map). http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.85857,-76.97120&z=15&t=T&marker0=42.86668%2C-76.98509%2CGeneva%5C%2C%20New%20York. Retrieved 2009-06-25.

[2] "New York 1653–1953", The New York Times (New York, New York), 1953-02-02, ISSN 0362-4331, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E15FF3D5B107A93C0A91789D85F478585F9, retrieved 2009-05-24

[3] Roosevelt, Theodore (1891), New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, New York, New York: Longmans, Green, p. 30, OCLC 2306039, http://www.bartleby.com/171/, retrieved 2009-05-24, "It was under Stuyvesant, in 1653, that the town was formally incorporated as a city"

[4] Roosevelt, Theodore (1891), New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, New York, New York: Longmans, Green, p. 46, OCLC 2306039, http://www.bartleby.com/171/, retrieved 2009-05-24, "The expedition against New Amsterdam had been organized with the Duke of York, afterward King James II., as its special patron, and the city was rechristened in his honor."

[5] Roosevelt, Theodore (1891), New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, New York, New York: Longmans, Green, p. 56, OCLC 2306039, http://www.bartleby.com/171/, retrieved 2009-05-24, "Under the influence of Dongan, he did indeed grant to the city itself a charter of special rights and privileges"

[6] Dongan, Thomas (1694), The charter of the city of New-York, New York, New York: William Bradford, OCLC 55899385, http://www.archive.org/stream/dongancharterofc00newyrich/dongancharterofc00newyrich_djvu.txt, retrieved 2009-05-24

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[edit] Extremes in size and population

[edit] See also

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] References

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