New York // Albany, NY // Middle Atlantic Region // Eastern Time (The Empire State) Dutch West India Co. trading post: 1614 Dutch colony Nieuw Nederland: 1624 - 1664 (English conquest) (Proprietary) Colony established: 1664 by Duke of York and Albany, Royal Colony in 1685 Independence declared: July 19, 1776 Union admittance: July 26, 1788 // 11th state [Display overwiew of states formed out of the original 13 colonies]

#4310 // April 16, 2010 (self-adhesive coil definitive) Flags of Our Nation Series New York State Flag fireboats and city skyline	#1984 // April 14, 1982 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) State Bird & Flower of New York Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) and Rose	#1643 // February 23, 1976 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) American Bicentennial Series New York State Flag

#1023 // September 14, 1953 // Oyster Bay, NY Opening of Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's home, as a national shrine Sagamore Hill, the home of Theodore Roosevelt (* 1858, † 1919), 26th US President (in office 1901 - 1909), was built in 1884 in Oyster Bay on Long Island, Nassau County, NY.	#2346 // July 26, 1988 // Albany, NY New York Statehood, Ratification of the Constitution on July 26, 1788 Bicentennial Wall Street, Federal Hall, and Trinity Church, New York City, NY

	#961 // August 2, 1948 // Niagara Falls, NY USA - Canada Friendship Centennial Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, opened in 1855 and replaced by the Whirlpool Rapids steel arch bridge in 1897 [View contemporary lithograph]
The double-decked bridge, constructed by German-American civil engineer John Augustus Roebling (* 1806, † 1869), spanned in a total length of 825 feet (251 m) the Niagara River gorge linking the Canadian Province of Ontario and the State of New York, USA.

#C133 // May 12, 1999 // Niagara Falls, NY self-adhesive Air Mail Stamp Niagara Falls, NY Photo taken from the New York shoreline by nature photographer Kurt Ross

#3592 // April 4, 2002 (ex pane of 50 stamps, one for each state) Greetings from New York Illustration of contemporary postcard in the style of the 1930s/1940s View New York state quarter View New York state map View New York clock

	The state and the capital Albany was named in honor of the English Duke of York and Albany (James Stuart, * 1633, † 1701), brother of the English King Charles II. (* 1630, r. 1660, † 1685) when the colony Nieuw Nederland was taken from the Dutch in 1664. Find out more facts & trivia
	Land Area rounded mi2 [km2] 47,214 [122.284] ranked 30th	Population (census 2010) 19,378,102 ranked 3rd	Population Density per mi2 [km2] of land area 410 [158] ranked 7th
	The State of New York has 62 counties. Each of the five boroughs of New York City is also a county of New York State.
	New York shares in the north on the 45th parallel and in the west a 445-mile-long (716 km) international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec (QC) and Ontario (ON).

#UX158 // August 21, 1991 // Niagara Falls, NY Stamped Postal Card America the Beautiful Series Niagara Falls, NY

The Niagara River, which connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, also forms a natural boundary between the USA and Canada. Midway downstream, Goat Island separates the river into a series of rapids which then forms the famous Niagara Falls, the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and the US American Falls.