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New York has a humid continental climate. Weather in New York is heavily influenced by two continental air masses: a warm, humid one from the southwest and a cold, dry one from the northwest. A cool, humid airflow from the North Atlantic also has an effect on weather in the state, albeit to a lesser extent than the continental ones. Many continental frontal boundaries move across New York, and storm systems moving north along the coast often affect the southern areas of the state.

The winters are long and cold in the Plateau Divisions of the state. In the majority of winter seasons, a temperature of −13 °F (−25 °C) or lower can be expected in the northern highlands (Northern Plateau) and 5 °F (−15 °C) or colder in the southwestern and east-central highlands (Southern Plateau). The Adirondack region records from 35 to 45 days with below zero temperatures in normal to severe winters. Much of Upstate New York, particularly Western and Central New York, are typically affected by lake-effect snows. This usually results in high yearly snowfall totals in these regions. Winters are also long and cold in both Western and Central New York, though not as cold as the Adirondack region. The New York City metro area in comparison to the rest of the state is milder in the winter. Thanks in part to geography (its proximity to the Atlantic and being shielded to the north and west by hillier terrain), the New York metro area usually sees far less snow than the rest of the state. Lake-effect snow rarely affects the New York metro area, except for its extreme northwestern suburbs. Winters also tend to be noticeably shorter here than the rest of the state.

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Colonial New York had a very similar climate to today's. See the related question for that description.

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Native Americans, including the Lenape Indians, inhabited the area long before Europeans arrived.

In 1524, the first European to the area was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian sailing for the French. The French never colonized the area.

English explorer Henry Hudson rediscovered the mouth of the Hudson River in 1609 and explored Hudson Bay in 1610. Like other explorers, Hudson was actually looking for a shortcut to Asia. He did not found any settlement there. bob :)

French explorer Champlain mapped the east coast of America from Cape Bretton, Nova Scotia, to Cape Cod, Mass in 1607, not quite far enough south to find (or found) New York, but close.

Peter Minuit was a German but was a director of the Dutch West India Co. He reached Manhattan Island in 1624 and purchased it from the Indians with beads, ribbons, and trinkets valued at the amount of 60 guilders, or about $24.

This became the colony of New Amsterdam (Niewe Amsterdam) in 1625. That is the date that appears on the Seal of the City of New York.

New Amsterdam separated the English colonies of New England from the other English colonies in the south. Clashes between the Dutch and the English were inevitable. England's Charles II claimed all the Dutch land, and in 1664 he gave it to his brother

The Dutch weren't prepared to fight the English, so in 1664, New Amsterdam became New York.

New York City as we know it (Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island) was founded in 1898. Before they were just separate boroughs, each with their own jurisdiction.

The state of New York was founded in July 26, 1788.

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In New York, that's WNBC-TV, channel 4.

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In large cities the number varies depending upon the original grid layout. In NYC (Manhattan) the number of north-south blocks per mile is 20. East-west blocks (between avenues) are typically just under 5 north-south blocks in length, so the number of east-west blocks per mile is 4.

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Now it's 4 pm Three hours from 2-5 pm

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The flight from London to New York is just over 7 hours. Depending on the wind, the weather conditions, and other factors it could be up to 8 hours long.

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Some natural resources were water, fish, but mostly wood/lumber because the area is called the Eastern Woodlands,fish, lakes and streams, freshwater wetlands, oceans, wildlife, minerals, forests,fish, granite, marble, food, forests, iron, fur, water and minerals.

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A major landform can be anything...like a mountain, and a lake etc.

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Normally the rate for 2008 is 6.3

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The capital city of New York State is Albany. It became New York's capital in 1797.

Albany is the central city of New York's Capital District. It is roughly 150 miles or 240 km north of New York City. Albany is located on the west bank of the Hudson River about 10 miles or 16 km south of its confluence with the Mohawk River.

Many people believe that the capital of New York State is New York City, partly because of the same name but also because of the fame and size of New York City, but it is very true that the capital of New York State is Albany.

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In all five boroughs of New York City there are 23,499 active restaurants as of April 2010. There are no resources online with figures of the number of restaurants in just Manhattan.

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Noon Central Time is 1 PM Eastern Time. Eastern Time is one hour ahead of Central Time.

The mainland U.S. has four time zones (Alaska and Hawaii each have their own time zones, which makes a total of 6 different time zones for the U.S.).

From west to east, the mainland U.S.'s time zones are: Pacific Time, Mountain Time, Central Time and Eastern Time. Each is one hour later than the last. For example, if it's 3 PM Pacific Time, then it's 4 PM Mountain Time, 5 PM Central Time and 6 PM Eastern Time.

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There are many well known people from Rochester, NY; over a hundred of them in fact. This list includes people such as Kristen Wiig, a comedian from Saturday Night Live and Peter Hannan the creator of "CatDog".

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3 Hours and 25 Minutes

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Venezuela to Portugal is farther

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The American Flag.

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In NJ and some parts of New York we've seen bucks chasing does already but the does arent ready. I don't know if the rut has fully kicked in for the bucks, but this weekend (oct. 23) is a great moonphase to hunt, so if the rut is starting now like i think it is, Saturday will be great.

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There is no such thing as a New York City pin code. However, there are New York City zip codes. For example, for New Hampton, NYC, the zip code is 10959.

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The 8th richest Jewish American Mike Bloomberg have made most of his money either through interest or dropshipping businesses just like the owner of aidandtrade.com in USA and UK.

Mr. Bloombergs main holdings have been, and always have been, Bloomberg News and Publishing type organizations. He originally was a Partner of the famous Salomon Brothers Brokerage.

He is heavily involved with the Dow Jones publishing group. Another major holding is the Bloomberg terminal, which is used as the working toll for trading and information in most of the securities industry.

He owns Bloomberg Financial News, which was originally a service that was specialized analytics for financial investors and professionals.

There is no commonly known retail, drop shipment or other types of business commonly connected to him...although with 27 billion, he may well have some investments in them somewhere.

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New York has snow plows.