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New York I.H.T. New York is also an important source of other manufactured goods such as NEW YORK, USA clothing, computers, navigation and guidance equipment, aircraft, car parts, SLOGAN: EMPIRE STATE chemicals, toiletries, processed foods, beverages, and paper, glass, rubber, and plastic goods. ABBREVIATION: NY Tourism is a major industry; in the early 1990s, visitor spending exceeded US$19 billion annually. Ports and Harbors: Airports: HOTELS●MOTELS●INNS ALBANY, NEW YORK 74 State Street, Albany, NY 12207 Tel: 518.434.7410,Fax: 518.434.6798 [email protected] http://www.74state.com State Dialling Code (Tel/Fax): ++1 518 New York State Division of Tourism: PO Box 2603, Albany, NY 12220 Tel: 474 4116 or 800 225 5697 (toll free) Fax: 486 6416 Website: www.iloveny.com Capital: Albany Time: GMT – 5 New York entered the Union on July 26, 1788, as the 11th of the Background: original 13 states. New York has long been a leader in the political, cultural, and economic life of the United States. Despite economic difficulties in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly in New York and other urban areas, the state still ranks among the US leaders in such important sectors as manufacturing, commerce, foreign trade, 74 State has a total of 74 guest rooms and communications, and finance. It is the birthplace of four US presidents: Martin Van suites which measure themselves among the Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Others, such as Presidents Grover Cleveland and Chester A. Arthur, spent most of their lives in the finest in the upstate New York region. state. New York, named in the 1660s after the Duke of York, later James II of England, is known as the “Empire State”. Apart from New York, its major cities are Albany (the capital), Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse. Population: According to the 1990 census, New York had 17,990,455 inhabitants, ALBANY AIRPORT INN 200 Wolf Road Albany UNITED STATES OF an increase of 2.5 per cent over 1980. New York was one of the few states to lose AMERICA 518-458-1000 518-458-2807 ALBANY MARRIOTT,189 Wolf Road ,Albany, New York 12205 USA ,P:1-518- population between 1970 and 1990. The population is 19,011,378 (2001 estimate). In 1990 the average population density was 129 people per sq km (333 per sq mi). 458-8444,Fax:1-518-458-7365, http://www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/albny- albany-marriott Nearly half the state’s population was concentrated in the New York metropolitan BEST WESTERN ALBANY AIRPORT INN,200 Wolf Road, Albany, New York area. Whites made up 74.4 per cent of the state population and blacks 15.9 per cent; more blacks live in New York (2.9 million) than in any other state. Additional 12205-1197,P: 518/458-1000 ,Fax: 518/437-1838, population groups included some 284,144 people of Chinese descent, 140,985 people http://www.bestwesternnewyork.com CLARION HOTEL AT THE CENTURY HOUSE ,997 New Loudon Rd.(Route 9), of Asian Indian background, 95,648 people of Korean origin, 62,259 people of Filipino extraction, 60,855 Native Americans, 35,281 people of Japanese ancestry, and Latham, NY, US, 12110,P: (518) 785-0931,Fax: (518) 782-2578, 15,555 people of Vietnamese origin. Approximately 2.2 million state residents, or 12.3 http://www.clarionhotel.com COMFORT INN 1606 Central Ave. - 12205 ALBANY NEW YORK UNITED per cent of the total population, were of Latino background; many of these were people of Puerto Rican origin living in the New York metropolitan area. STATES OF AMERICA (518) 869-5327 CRESTHILL SUITES ALBANY,1415 Washington Avenue,Albany, NY 12206, New York (state), one of the mid-Atlantic coast states of the United Location: United States,T:(518) 454-0007, www.cresthillsuites.com States, bordered on the north by the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec; on HAMPTON INN & SUITES ALBANY – DOWNTOWN,25 Chapel Street,Albany, the east by Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; on the south-east by the NY 12210, United States,T:(518) 432-7000, www.hamptonsuitesalbany.com Atlantic Ocean; on the south by New Jersey and Pennsylvania; and on the west by HILTON GARDEN INN ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER,62 New Scotland Avenue, Pennsylvania and Ontario. Several boundaries are formed by bodies of water, Albany, New York, USA 12208 ,Tel: 1-518-396-3500 ,Fax: 1-518-396-3535, including Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River, in the north; Lake Champlain and http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com If it does not say Intercontex it is not The International Hotel and Travel Directory Directory and Travel Hotel International The it is not Intercontex say does not Ifit the Poultney River, in the north-east; the Hudson and Delaware rivers, in the south- HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS ALBANY DOWNTOWN ,300 Broadway Avenue, east; and Lake Erie and the Niagara River, in the west. Although New York is the Albany, NY 12207, United States,(800) 521-9033, largest city in the country, much of New York State is still rural. www.hiealbanydowntown.com Area: New York has an area of 139,831 sq km (53,989 sq mi); 0.8 per cent of its land HOMEWOOD SUITES BY HILTON ALBANY,216 Wolf Road,Albany, NY 12205, area is owned by the federal government. The mainland portion of New York is United States,(518) 438-4300, www.homewoodsuites.com shaped roughly like a right-angled triangle; Long Island forms an extension in the RED ROOF INN ALBANY AIRPORT,188 Wolf Road,Albany, NY 12205, United south-east. The extreme dimensions of the mainland are about 510 km (315 mi) from States,T:(518) 459-1971, www.redroof-albany.com east to west and about 480 km (300 mi) from north to south; Long Island extends SPRINGHILL SUITES ALBANY-COLONIE,8 California Avenue,Albany, NY about 190 km (118 mi) from east to west. Elevations begin at sea level, along the Atlantic 12205, United States,T:(518) 724-7999, www.springhillsuites.com Ocean in the south-east, and range up to 1,629 m (5,344 ft), from the top of Mount QUALITY INN Hotel 3 Watervliet Ave. - 12206 ALBANY NEW YORK UNITED Marcy in the north-east. The average elevation is 305 m (1,000 ft). The coastline STATES OF AMERICA (518) 438-8431 measures 204 km (127 mi). THE DESMOND ALBANY,660 Albany Shaker Road,Albany, NY 12211-1084, United States,(518) 869-8100, www.desmondhotelsalbany.com New York remains one of the leading industrial states in the United Industries: TOWNEPLACE SUITES ALBANY DOWNTOWN/MEDICAL CENTER,22 States, although the manufacturing sector has diminished in importance in recent Holland Avenue ,Albany, New York 12209 USA ,P:1-518-860-1500,Fax:1-518- decades. (Manufacturing accounted for about 14 per cent of the annual gross state 860-1599, http://www.marriott.com product in 1989, down from nearly 20 per cent in 1980.) Chief manufactured goods include printed materials (the New York area is the leading printing centre); precision ALBANY/LATHAM NEW YORK instruments such as cameras, optical and medical equipment, and measuring devices; CLARION INN & SUITES Albany Airport 611 Troy Schnectady Rd. - 12110- electronic equipment such as lighting and communications equipment; and industrial 2505 ALBANY/LATHAM NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (518) machinery such as engines and turbines, and refrigeration and heating equipment. 785-5891 ©Copyrights New York ®Design Intercontex The Intercontex I.H.T.- Over 150,000 Subscribers New York I.H.T. COMFORT INN Airport & Conference Center 866 Albany-shaker Rd. - 12110 CANTON NEW YORK ALBANY/LATHAM NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (518) 783-1900 COMFORT SUITES 6000 US 11 - 13617 CANTON NEW YORK UNITED QUALITY INN Albany Airport 622 SR 155 622 Watervliet-Shaker rd. - 12110 STATES OF AMERICA (315) 386-1161 ALBANY/LATHAM NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (518) 785-1414 CLIFTON PARK NEW YORK ALBANY-AIRPORT NEW YORK CLIFTON PARK Rt 146 & Plank Rd Clifton Park UNITED STATES OF COURTYARD 168 Wolf Road Albany, NY 12205 ALBANY-AIRPORT NEW YORK AMERICA 518-371-1811 518-371-2364 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 518/482-8800 518/482-0001 COMFORT INN Fire Rd. - Old Rt. 146 - 12065 CLIFTON PARK NEW YORK ALBANY-THRUWAY NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (518) 373-0222 COURTYARD 1455 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12206 ALBANY-THRUWAY CLINTON INN 141 Buffalo Road Clinton UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 423- NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 518/435-1600 518/435-1616 457-2233 423-457-8577 BATAVIA NEW YORK COLONIAL MOTEL 13 By-pass East Franklin St Clinton UNITED STATES OF BATAVIA INN 8204 Park Road New York Batavia UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMERICA 816-885-2206 816-885-2206 716-343-1000 716-343-8608 CORNING NEW YORK COMFORT INN 4371 Federal Dr. - 14020 BATAVIA NEW YORK UNITED STATES COMFORT INN 66 W. 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