NYNew York
Held by emptyempire under the Libertarian flag, for $38.
“Eight agencies to open a sandwich shop. Leave us alone, we will handle it”
emptyempire paid $38 to put that there.
Take it for
$57
Take itThe place
One of the original 13 · ratified 1788 · Eastern time
New York is a city that everyone knows and a state that almost nobody does, and the state is enormous: the Adirondacks are a park bigger than Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon combined. The Erie Canal made the whole thing possible, turning the city into a port for the entire interior. Go for the city, of course, but take the train up the Hudson, which is one of the great rail journeys, and stop in the Catskills or the Finger Lakes on the way.
More languages are spoken in Queens than almost anywhere on earth.
Eat
A folded slice
Drink
Brooklyn Brewery
Listen
Ramones
Bird
Eastern bluebird
Flower
Rose
Tree
Sugar maple
Grows
Apples, Grapes, Cabbage
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 20,002,427
- Land area
- 47,124 mi²
- GDP per head
- $123,369
- Median household
- $85,768
- Joined
- One of the original 13
- Civil War
- Union
Largest cities
- 1New York8.48M
- 2Buffalo277K
- 3Yonkers211K
- 4Rochester207K
- 5Syracuse146K
Race
- White64.5%
- Black18.1%
- Asian10.9%
Hispanic or Latino21.0%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
2 claims
emptyempire took New York from fivevoices for $38. The Democratic Socialist claim is ash.
“Eight agencies to open a sandwich shop. Leave us alone, we will handle it”
· $38
First blood in New York: fivevoices, Democratic Socialist, $25.
“Rent is a policy choice and you chose wrong”
· $25