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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Punxsutawney is a borough in Jefferson County, western Pennsylvania, home of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil and the annual Groundhog Day ceremony at Gobbler's Knob; population 5,769 (2020), incorporated 1850.
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania: county seat of Berks County in the Schuylkill Valley, founded 1748 by Thomas and Richard Penn, incorporated as a city 1847, population 95,112 (2020), former home of the Reading Railroad.
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware: Atlantic resort city in Sussex County, founded 1873 as a Methodist camp meeting ground, incorporated 1891 as Henlopen City, renamed 1893; mile-long boardwalk, 'Nation's Summer Capital,' 1,108 year-round residents swelling to about 25,000 on summer days.
Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York: western New York city on the Genesee River, county seat of Monroe County; Erie Canal boomtown, Flour City, Kodak's home, 2020 population 211,328.
Rockville, Maryland
Rockville, Maryland, is the county seat of Montgomery County in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Also called Williamsburgh and Montgomery Court House historically; incorporated 1860; population 67,000 (2020); core of the I-270 technology corridor.
Rome, New York
Rome, New York: a Mohawk Valley city in Oneida County (2020 population 32,127), birthplace of the Erie Canal (groundbreaking July 4, 1817), home of Fort Stanwix National Monument and the Griffiss Business and Technology Park.
Rye, New York
Rye is a city in Westchester County, New York, on Long Island Sound about 25 miles north of New York City. Founded 1660, chartered as a city in 1942, the state's most recent; home to Playland, the first planned US amusement park.
Salisbury, Maryland
Salisbury, Maryland: largest city on the Eastern Shore and seat of Wicomico County, founded 1732 on the Wicomico River; about 33,800 residents, a regional hub for poultry, healthcare, education, and the state's second-largest port.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York: a Saratoga County city of about 28,500 built around naturally carbonated mineral springs, the Queen of Spas resort era, Saratoga Race Course (opened 1863), and Saratoga Spa State Park.
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady, New York: a Mohawk River city in the Capital Region, settled 1661, chartered 1798, home of General Electric's founding works, Union College, Proctors Theatre, and Mohawk Harbor; 2020 population 67,047.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton, historically Slocum Hollow, is a city in northeastern Pennsylvania and the seat of Lackawanna County, once the "Anthracite Capital of the World" and home of the country's first electric trolley system in 1886.
Secaucus, New Jersey
Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, on the Hackensack River in the Meadowlands, population 22,181 (2020), a distribution and transit hub near Secaucus Junction, distinct from other Meadowlands municipalities.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland: unincorporated census-designated place in southeastern Montgomery County near Washington, D.C.; 81,015 residents (2020), major transit hub with Metrorail, MARC, and the Purple Line, and a revitalized downtown.
State College, Pennsylvania
State College is a home rule borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State's University Park campus. Incorporated 1896; 2020 population 40,501; Council/Manager/Mayor government under a 1973 Home Rule Charter.
Staten Island
Staten Island, coextensive with Richmond County, is New York City's southernmost and least populous borough (476,143 residents). Known for the free Staten Island Ferry, the former Fresh Kills landfill, now Freshkills Park, and its suburban, politically distinct character.
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.
Towson, Maryland
Towson, Maryland is an unincorporated census-designated place and the county seat of Baltimore County, just north of Baltimore. Population 59,553 (2020); home to Towson University, founded 1866, with a $2.5 billion economic impact.
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 Chester, Pennsylvania
West Chester, Pennsylvania: the Chester County seat since 1786, a 1.85-square-mile borough of about 19,600 people near Philadelphia, home to West Chester University and a historic walkable downtown.
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.
West Reading, Pennsylvania
West Reading is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, incorporated March 18, 1907 from Spring and Cumru Townships, laid out in 1873, known for its walkable Penn Avenue Main Street and award-winning revitalization programs.
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.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Wyoming Valley city on the Susquehanna River, founded 1769 and named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré; anthracite coal hub, devastated by 1972 Tropical Storm Agnes flooding.