I love upstate, I love downstate, I love the whole state.

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members…

— Reid Scott

Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage…

— Charles Duhigg

“Growing up in upstate New York, one of the grayest parts of the U.S., meant whole weeks might pass with no more than a…

— Rachel Friedman

I really wanted to raise my boys in a place where 'celebrity' wasn't important, and where I could be closer to where I grew…

— Lauren Holly

Winter makes me want to rage. You know how there's road rage? I feel like in New York or upstate New York, you're just…

— Liza Lapira

I'm an upstate New York lifer.

— Megyn Kelly

It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her.

— Dennis Kozlowski

I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew…

— Tom Barbash

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but…

— Philippe Petit

I like to head upstate to the Catskills, to Woodstock.

— Anna Ewers

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise.…

— James Howard Kunstler

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the…

— Vera Farmiga

I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are…

— David Muir

“Boy needs to get a good night's sleep. Otherwise, he'll be lucky to get accepted at SUNY-So Far Upstate You Might As Well Be…

— Rachel Cohn