The Life and Opinions of Nathan Atlasforum, Gentleman (AMA)

[Del Tachi]

Where would you draw the line between Upstate and Downstate NY?

You seem to have skipped this by mistake.

Thanks for the reminder and sorry I still took a while to get to this.

I'd put a soft "someone from the City could be forgiven for thinking of this as Upstate" line at the northern boundaries of Westchester and Rockland Counties, a soft "someone from Watertown or Plattsburgh could be forgiven for thinking of this as Downstate" line maybe halfway between Albany and Kingston, and a hard "this actually is Upstate/this actually is Downstate" line around Poughkeepsie. The bulk of the Catskills would be on the Downstate side of the second line but the Upstate side of the first and third.

Nonsense.  Upstate begins at 14th Street.