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Albany, New York
Albany, New York: capital city on the Hudson River, founded as Fort Orange in 1624, chartered 1686, state capital since 1797; population about 99,000, anchor of Tech Valley.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown, Pennsylvania: third-largest city in the state, county seat of Lehigh County, founded 1762 by William Allen. Majority-Latino city on the Lehigh River anchoring the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metro.
Alpine, New Jersey
Alpine is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, on the Palisades cliffs about 20 miles north of New York City. Incorporated 1903; 1,762 residents (2020); median household income $246,944; lowest Bergen County tax rate; noted for large estates and celebrity homes.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Altoona, Pennsylvania: Blair County city founded in 1849 by the Pennsylvania Railroad at the approach to Horseshoe Curve; 2020 population 43,963, declining; home of Sheetz and railroad heritage museums. Not the Iowa suburb of Des Moines.
Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis, Maryland: capital of Maryland and seat of Anne Arundel County on the Severn River; home of the U.S. Naval Academy (1845), St. John's College (1696), and the Maryland State House; population about 40,000.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Asbury Park is a Jersey Shore city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, founded in 1871 by James A. Bradley, named for Bishop Francis Asbury, known for early infrastructure firsts, its segregated resort era, and its boardwalk and music revival.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, New Jersey: resort city on Absecon Island, founded 1854, home of the first U.S. boardwalk (1870) and first casino outside Nevada (Resorts, 1978); nine casinos, 38,497 residents (2020).
Auburn, New York
Auburn, New York: county seat of Cayuga County in the Finger Lakes region, about 25 miles west of Syracuse. Known for the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park, Seward House Museum, and Auburn prison founded 1816.
Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland's largest independent city and a Patapsco River port founded in 1729, had 569,997 residents in 2025, hosts the top U.S. roll-on/roll-off port, and recorded 133 homicides in 2025, a nearly 50-year low.
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne, New Jersey: Hudson County peninsula city, originally Bergen Neck, incorporated 1869. Known for Standard Oil refining, the 1931 Bayonne Bridge steel arch, Military Ocean Terminal, and 71,686 residents (2020).
Beacon, New York
Beacon, New York, is a city on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, consolidated from Fishkill Landing and Matteawan in 1913 and known today for Dia Beacon.
Bedford (town), New York
Bedford is a town in Westchester County, New York, founded in 1680, comprising three hamlets: Bedford Village, Bedford Hills (seat of government), and Katonah, a planned village relocated in the 1890s for New York City's reservoir system.
Bethel, New York
Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, 90 miles northwest of New York City, incorporated in 1809 from Lumberland. It hosted the 1969 Woodstock festival on Max Yasgur's farm and is now home to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland: unincorporated Montgomery County CDP northwest of Washington, D.C., also called Darcy's Store until 1871. Home to NIH headquarters and Walter Reed; 68,056 residents (2020); Purple Line terminus expected 2027.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley city of about 75,000 founded by Moravians on Christmas Eve 1741, home of Bethlehem Steel (closed 1995) and a 2024 UNESCO World Heritage Moravian settlement.
Big Apple
The Big Apple, New York City's nickname, was popularized by racing writer John J. Fitz Gerald from 1921, spread by 1930s jazz musicians, and revived officially in 1971.
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York: Southern Tier city at the Chenango-Susquehanna confluence, named for William Bingham, incorporated 1867, former cigar and manufacturing hub, home of Binghamton University, 47,969 residents in 2020.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
Braddock, Pennsylvania is an Allegheny County borough east of Pittsburgh, site of Carnegie's first steel mill (Edgar Thomson Works, 1875). Population fell from about 20,000 in the 1920s to 1,721 in 2020; John Fetterman was mayor 2006-2019.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn, coextensive with Kings County, New York, is New York City's most populous borough, home to about 2.73 million people, roughly a third of the city.
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a city in western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie, laid out in 1804 by Joseph Ellicott, with a 2020 population of 278,349.
Butler, Pennsylvania
Butler, Pennsylvania, also known as Butler, PA, is the county seat of Butler County, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, laid out in 1803 and the birthplace of the Bantam Jeep.
Camden, New Jersey
Camden, New Jersey: Delaware River city across from Philadelphia, county seat of Camden County. Former industrial powerhouse (Campbell Soup, RCA Victor, New York Shipbuilding) that declined after 1950, underwent state takeover, police disbandment, and waterfront redevelopment.
Cape May, New Jersey
Cape May, New Jersey: a city at the southern tip of the Cape May Peninsula, the nation's oldest seashore resort, a National Historic Landmark Victorian district listed in 1970, and a top birdwatching destination.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle, Pennsylvania: county seat of Cumberland County, founded 1751, home of Dickinson College (1783) and Carlisle Barracks (1757), seat of the U.S. Army War College since 1951 and site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879–1918).
Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania
Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: a 9.06-square-mile inner-ring suburb on Philadelphia's northwest border, settled 1682 by Quakers from Cheltenham, England; 37,452 residents (2020), home to La Mott, Camp William Penn, and two National Register historic districts.
Chester, Pennsylvania
Chester, Pennsylvania: Delaware County's only city, founded 1644 as Swedish Upland, renamed by Penn in 1682; former shipbuilding hub, population 32,605 (2020), in Act 47 fiscal emergency with a 2026 revitalization package.
College Park, Maryland
College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., home to the University of Maryland's flagship campus and the world's oldest continuously operating airport.
Cumberland, Maryland
Cumberland, Maryland, county seat of Allegany County, incorporated 1815, named for the Duke of Cumberland. Former transportation hub and Maryland's second largest city; C&O Canal terminus; 2020 population 19,076.
Dover, Delaware
Dover, Delaware: capital of Delaware and Kent County seat, founded by William Penn in 1683, plotted 1717, permanent capital since 1779. Population 39,403 (2020); economy based on state government and Dover Air Force Base.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Doylestown, Pennsylvania: county seat of Bucks County, a borough of about 8,300 surrounded by Doylestown Township; known for Henry Mercer's Fonthill Castle, Mercer Museum, and walkable downtown.