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Summit, New Jersey
Summit is a city in Union County, New Jersey, about 25 miles west of New York City, with about 23,300 residents, NJ Transit Midtown Direct rail service, and a 2026 court-approved affordable housing plan covering roughly 532 units.
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York: Onondaga County seat and Central New York hub, once the nation's salt producer via the Erie Canal, now known for 126 inches of annual snow, high poverty, the I-81 Community Grid, and Micron's $100 billion fab project in nearby Clay.
The Bronx
The Bronx, coextensive with Bronx County, is New York City's northernmost borough and the only one on the U.S. mainland, formed January 1, 1898; population about 1.4 million, 57% Hispanic, median household income $48,676.
Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton, New Jersey: state capital since 1790 and Mercer County seat on the Delaware River; site of Washington's 1776 Battle of Trenton, brief 1784 U.S. capital, former industrial city of about 91,000 people.
Troy, New York
Troy, New York: county seat of Rensselaer County on the Hudson River in the Capital District, home of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a former iron and steel center, population 51,401 (2020).
Union City, New Jersey
Union City, New Jersey: dense Hudson County city formed June 1, 1925 by merging Union Hill and West Hoboken; 68,589 residents (2020), 81.8% Hispanic, historic embroidery capital on the Palisades near the Lincoln Tunnel.
Utica, New York
Utica, New York: Mohawk Valley city in Oneida County, 11th-largest in the state, population about 64,000. Erie Canal boomtown turned refugee resettlement hub; median income $52,484, poverty 27.5%.
Vineland, New Jersey
Vineland, New Jersey: a city in Cumberland County founded in 1861 by Charles K. Landis as a planned agricultural community; largest NJ city by land area, population 60,780 (2020).
West Orange, New Jersey
West Orange, New Jersey is a township in Essex County about 13 miles west of New York City, home to Thomas Edison's laboratory and 48,843 residents in 2020.
Westfield, New Jersey
Westfield is a town in Union County, New Jersey, settled in 1720 as the West Fields of Elizabethtown, incorporated as a township in 1794 and a town in 1903; population 31,032 (2020), a wealthy NYC commuter suburb with an award-winning downtown.
White Plains, New York
White Plains, New York: county seat of Westchester County, about 25 miles north of Manhattan. Founded 1683, city since 1916; 2020 population 59,559; site of the 1776 Battle of White Plains and a major Westchester business and retail hub.
Woodstock, New York
Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, within the Catskill Park; it lent its name to the 1969 Woodstock Festival held 60 miles away.
Yonkers, New York
Yonkers, New York: Westchester County's largest city and New York State's third largest, on the Hudson River just north of the Bronx; about 212,000 residents, named for the Dutch jonkheer van der Donck.