What is Downstate?
1.
The suburbs of NYC as defined by the New York State Dept of Tourism:
Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Southern Dutchess Counties.
Includes: City of Rye, Peekskill, Newburgh, Middletown, Beacon, Port Jervis, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains, ect.
Were ya from:
"Downstate NY"
2.
NYC and areas within an hour commute.(except New Jersey because that's a different state!!)
3.
New York City
Long Island
Westchester
That's it.
Downstate= NYC metro area.
Upstate= Not NYC metro area.
4.
A place in Pennsylvania from which asshole flatlanders move to places in the higher elevations to fuck them up, too.
Go back downstate where you came from, you fucking flatlander!
5.
A term used by suburbanites to describe the New York metro area. To city people it's not "upstate" and "downstate", it's New York City and the rest of the state.
Westchester and Long Island