Ithaca, New York
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Ithaca, New York | |
Location in New York | |
Coordinates: | |
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Country | United States |
State | New York |
County | Tompkins County |
Founded | 1790 |
Incorporated | 1888 |
Government | |
- Mayor | Carolyn K. Peterson (D) |
Area | |
- City | 6.1 sq mi (15.7 km²) |
- Land | 5.5 sq mi (14.1 km²) |
- Water | 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km²) |
Population (2000) | |
- City | 29,287 (city proper) |
- Density | 5,363.9/sq mi (2,071.0/km²) |
- Metro | 100,018 |
Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
- Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
Website: www.ci.ithaca.ny.us |
The City of Ithaca (named for the Greek island of Ithaca) sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York State. It is best known for being home to Cornell University — an Ivy League school with almost 20,000 students (most of them studying on Cornell's Ithaca campus).
The City of Ithaca is the center of the Ithaca metropolitan area (which also contains the legally distinct Town of Ithaca and other towns and villages in Tompkins County) and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York. As of 2000, the city had a population of 29,287, and the metropolitan area had a population of 100,135. 2004 estimates puts the city population at 29,952, an increase of 2.3%. It is the North American seat of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
[edit] History
[edit] Early history
The inhabitants of the Ithaca area at the time of European expansion were the Sapony and Tutelo Indians, dependent tribes of the Cayuga Indians who formed part of the Iroquois confederation. These tribes had been allowed to settle on Cayuga-controlled hunting lands at the south end of Cayuga Lake as well as in Pony (originally Sapony) Hollow of Newfield, New York, after being forced from North Carolina by European expansion. They were driven from the area by the Sullivan Expedition which destroyed the Tutelo village of Coregonal, located near the junction of state routes 13 and 13A just south of the Ithaca city limits. Indian presence in the current City of Ithaca was limited to a temporary hunting camp at the base of Cascadilla Gorge. The destruction of Iroquois confederation power opened the region to settlement by people of European origin, a process which began in 1789. In 1790, an official program began for distributing land in the area as a reward for service to the American soldiers of the Revolutionary War; most local land titles trace back to the Revolutionary war grants. Lots were drawn in 1791; informal settlement had already started.
[edit] Partition of the Military Tract
As part of this process, the Central New York Military Tract, which included northern Tompkins County, was surveyed by Simeon DeWitt. His clerk Robert Harpur had a fondness for ancient Greek and Roman history as well as English authors and philosophers (as evidenced by the nearby townships of Dryden and Locke). The Commissioners of Lands of New York State (chairman Gov. George Clinton) followed Harpur's recommendations at a meeting in 1790. The Military Tract township in which proto-Ithaca was located he named the Town of Ulysses, the Latin form of the Greek Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey. A few years later DeWitt moved to Ithaca, then called variously "The Flats," "The City," or "Sodom," and named it for the Greek island home of Ulysses (still the surrounding township at the time — nowadays Ulysses is just a town in Tompkins County). Contrary to popular myth, DeWitt did not name many of the classical references found in Upstate New York such as Syracuse and Troy; these were from the general classical fervor of the times. The Odyssey is routinely taught to elementary school students in the Ithaca area.
[edit] The growth of Ithaca, village and city
In the 1820s and 1830, Ithaca held high hopes of becoming a major city when the primitive Ithaca and Owego Railway was completed in 1832 to connect the Erie Canal navigation with the Susquehanna River to the south. In 1821, the village set itself off by incorporation at the same time the Town of Ithaca parted with the parent town of Ulysses. These hopes survived the depression of 1837 when the railroad was re-organized as the Cayuga & Susquehanna and re-engineered with switchbacks in the late 1840s; much of this route is now used by the South Hill Recreation Way. However, easier routes soon became available, such as the Syracuse, Binghamton & New York (1854). In the decade following the Civil War railroads were built from Ithaca to all surrounding points (Geneva, New York; Cayuga, New York; Cortland, New York; Elmira, New York; Athens, Pennsylvania) mainly with financing from Ezra Cornell; however, the geography of the city has always prevented it from lying on a major transportation artery. Nevertheless, the village of Ithaca became a chartered city in 1887. When the Lehigh Valley Railroad built its main line from Pennsylvania to Buffalo in 1890 it bypassed Ithaca (running via eastern Schuyler County on easier grades), as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad had done in the 1850s. Ithaca became a city in 1888 and remained a small manufacturing and retail center until the recent education boom.
[edit] Industrial hub
Ithaca was nationally known for the Ithaca Gun Company, makers of highly-valued shotguns, and Ithaca Calendar Clocks. The largest industry was the Morse Chain company, still active in Lansing, New York as BorgWarner Morse and on South Hill as Emerson Power Transmission. In the post-World War II decades, National Cash Register and the Langmuir Research Labs of General Electric were also major employers.
[edit] Higher education
Cornell University was founded by Ezra Cornell in 1865. It was coeducational from its inception, which was extremely unusual at the time. Ezra Cornell also established a public library for the city. Ithaca College was founded as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1892.
[edit] The film industry
During the early 20th century, Ithaca was an important center in the silent film industry. The most common type of film produced was the cliffhanger serial. These films often featured the local natural scenery. Many of these films were the work of Leopold Wharton and his brother Theodore Wharton in their studio on the site of what is now Stewart Park. Eventually the film industry centralized in Hollywood, which offered the possibility of year-round filming, and film production in Ithaca effectively ceased. Few of the silent films made in Ithaca are preserved today.
[edit] Geography and climate
The valley in which Cayuga Lake is located is long and narrow with a north-south orientation. Ithaca is at the southern end (the "head") of the lake, but the valley continues to the southwest behind the city. Originally a river valley, it was deepened and widened by the action of Pleistocene ice sheets over the last several hundred thousand years. The lake, which drains to the north, formed behind a dam of glacial moraine. The rock is predominantly Devonian and, north of Ithaca, is relatively fossil rich. Glacial erratics can be found in the area. The world renowned fossils found in this area can be examined at the Museum of the Earth.
Ithaca was founded on flat land just south of the lake — land that formed in fairly recent geological times when silt filled the southern end of the lake. The city ultimately spread to the adjacent hillsides, which rise several hundred feet above the central flats: East Hill, West Hill, and South Hill. Its sides are fairly steep, and a number of the streams that flow into the valley from east or west have cut deep gorges, usually with several waterfalls.
Ithaca experiences a moderate continental climate, with cold, snowy winters and sometimes hot and humid summers. The valley flatland has slightly milder weather in winter, and occasionally Ithacans experience simultaneous snow on the hills and rain in the valley.
The natural vegetation of the Ithaca area, seen in areas unbuilt and unfarmed, is northern temperate broadleaf forest, dominated by deciduous trees.
Due to the microclimates created by the impact of the lakes, the region surrounding Ithaca (Finger Lakes American Viticultural Area) experiences a short but adequate growing season for winemaking. As such the region is home to many wineries.
[edit] Education
Ithaca is a major educational center in Central New York. The city is home to Ithaca College, situated on South Hill, and Cornell University which overlooks the town from East Hill. The student population is very high, as almost 20,000 students are enrolled at Cornell, with an additional 6,300 students at Ithaca College. The Ithaca City School District, which encompasses Ithaca and the surrounding area, enrolls about 5,500 K-12 students in eight elementary schools, two middle schools, Ithaca High School, and the Lehman Alternative Community School, which provides its students wide-ranging freedom to choose their own curriculum. There are also several private elementary and secondary schools in the Ithaca area, including Immaculate Conception School and the Cascadilla School.
[edit] Economy
The economy of Ithaca is based on education and manufacturing with high tech and tourism in strong supporting roles. As of 2006, Ithaca remains one of the few expanding economies in economically troubled New York State outside of New York City, and draws commuters from the neighboring rural counties of Cortland, Tioga, and Schuyler, as well as from the more urbanized Chemung County.
With some level of success, Ithaca has tried to maintain a traditional downtown shopping area that includes the Ithaca Commons pedestrian mall and Center Ithaca, a small mixed-use complex built at the end of the urban renewal era. Some in the community regret that downtown has lost vitality to two expanding commercial zones to the northeast and southwest of the old city. These areas contain an increasing number of large retail stores and restaurants run by national chains. Others say the chain stores boost local shopping options for residents considerably, many of whom would have previously shopped elsewhere, while increasing sales tax revenue for the city and county. The tradeoff between sprawl and economic development continues to be debated throughout the city and the surrounding area. (Another commercial center, Collegetown, is located next to the Cornell campus. It features a number of restaurants, shops, and bars, and an increasing number of high rise apartments and is primarily frequented by Cornell University students.)
Ithaca has many of the businesses characteristic of small American university towns: used bookstores, art house cinemas, craft stores, and vegetarian restaurants. The collective Moosewood Restaurant, founded in 1973, was the wellspring for a number of vegetarian cookbooks; Bon Appetit magazine ranked it among the thirteen most influential restaurants of the twentieth century.
[edit] Culture
Ithacans support the Ithaca Farmers Market, professional theaters (Kitchen Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Icarus Theatre), a civic orchestra, much parkland, the Sciencenter for children, and the Museum of the Earth. Ithaca is noted for its annual artistic celebration of community: The Ithaca Festival (and its parade), the Circus Eccentrithaca. Local live music is very prominent in the culture of Ithaca, the home of several nationally known acts such as Johnny Dowd, John Brown's Body, Donna the Buffalo, The Horseflies, and The Burns Sisters. The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts provides grants and Summer Fellowships at the Saltonstall Arts Colony for New York State artists and writers. Ithaca also hosts what is described as the third-largest used-book sale in the United States.
Ithaca has also pioneered the Ithaca Health Fund, a popular cooperative health insurance. Ithaca is also home to one of the United States' first local currency systems, Ithaca Hours, developed by Paul Glover (building on the pioneering work of Ralph Borsodi and Robert Swann).
[edit] Media
The dominant local newspaper in Ithaca is a morning daily, the Ithaca Journal, founded 1815. The paper is owned by Gannett, Inc., publishers of USA Today. Other local print publications include the Ithaca Times, Tompkins Weekly, the Ithaca Community News the Cornell Daily Sun, the Ithacan, and the Tattler. (The latter three are run by student staffs at Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Ithaca High School, respectively.)
[edit] Politics
Politically, the city's population has a significant tilt towards liberalism and the Democratic Party. This contrasts with the more conservative leanings of the surrounding Upstate New York region. In 1988 Jesse Jackson won the Democratic Presidential primary. In 2000 Ralph Nader received more votes for President than George W. Bush.
[edit] Local government
The name Ithaca designates two governmental entities in the area, the Town of Ithaca and the City of Ithaca.
The Town of Ithaca is one of the nine towns comprised by Tompkins County. (Towns in New York are something like townships in other states; every county outside New York City is subdivided into towns.) The City of Ithaca is surrounded by, but legally independent of, the Town. Greater Ithaca includes the villages of Lansing and Cayuga Heights.
In December 2005, the City and Town governments began discussing opportunities for increased government consolidation, including the possibility of joining the two into a single entity. This topic had been previously discussed in 1963 and 1969.
The possibility of consolidation is controversial for Town residents who could be forced to pay higher taxes as they help shoulder the higher debt burden that the City has taken on. Some Town residents also worry that consolidation could lead to increased sprawl and traffic congestion. However, most of the Town's population is already concentrated in hamlets in proximity to the City's borders and Town residents take advantage of City amenities. Mayor Walter Lynn of the Village of Cayuga Heights (a wealthy Ithaca suburb located in the Town) called consolidation discussion a "waste of time."[1]
Other non-municipal areas within the Town of Ithaca identified by the US Census Bureau as census-designated places are:
In addition, the Town of Ithaca contains the Village of Cayuga Heights, a small incorporated upper-middle class suburb located to the northeast of the City of Ithaca.
The Town of Ithaca is bordered by other towns of Tompkins County as follows:
- Enfield to the west
- Ulysses to the northwest
- Lansing to the northeast
- Dryden to the east
- Danby to the south
- Newfield to the southwest
The majority of local property taxes are actually assessed by an entirely independent agency with entirely different borders, the Ithaca City School District.
[edit] Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 29,287 people, 10,287 households, and 2,962 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,071.0/km² (5,360.9/mi²). There were 10,736 housing units at an average density of 759.2/km² (1,965.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 73.97% White, 6.71% Black or African American, 0.39% Native American, 13.65% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.86% from other races, and 3.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.31% of the population.
There were 10,287 households out of which 14.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 19.0% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 71.2% were non-families. 43.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.81.
In the city the population was spread out with 9.2% under the age of 18, 53.8% from 18 to 24, 20.1% from 25 to 44, 10.6% from 45 to 64, and 6.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 22 years. For every 100 females there were 102.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $21,441, and the median income for a family was $42,304. Males had a median income of $29,562 versus $27,828 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,408. About 13.5% of families and 40.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.4% of those under age 18 and 11.7% of those age 65 or over.
[edit] Infrastructure
[edit] Transportation
Ithaca is in the rural Finger Lakes region about 250 miles to the northwest of New York City; the nearest larger cities, Binghamton and Syracuse, are an hour's drive away by car.
Ithaca is served by Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, located about three miles to the northeast of the city center. US Airways Express offers flights to New York LaGuardia and Philadelphia using a mixture of small jets and propeller craft. Northwest Airlink provides twice-daily service to Detroit Metro airport. Many residents travel to Syracuse Hancock International Airport, Greater Binghamton Airport, Elmira-Corning Regional Airport or Greater Rochester International Airport for more service options.
Ithaca lies at over a half hour's drive from any interstate highway, and all car trips to Ithaca involve at least some driving on two-lane state rural highways. The city is at the convergence of many regional two-lane state highways: Routes 13, 13A, 34, 79, 89, 96, 96B, and 366. These are usually not congested except in Ithaca proper. There is frequent intercity bus service by Greyhound Lines, New York Trailways, and Shortline (Coach USA), particularly to Binghamton and New York City, with limited service to Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse, and (via connections in Binghamton) to Utica and Albany.
Ithaca is the center of an extensive bus public transportation system — Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) — which carried 3.1 million passengers in 2005.[2] TCAT was reorganized as a non-profit corporation in 2004 and is primarily supported locally by Cornell University, the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County. TCAT operates 39 routes, many running seven days a week. It has frequent service to downtown, Cornell, Ithaca College, and the Pyramid Mall in the neighboring Town of Lansing, but less frequent service to many residential and rural areas, including Trumansburg and Newfield. Chemung County Transit runs weekday commuter routes into Schuyler and Chemung counties, and Tioga County Public Transit runs weekday routes into neighboring Tioga, primarily to serve Cornell employees who prefer to live in these rural counties, or are forced to because of the high house prices near Ithaca.
GADABOUT Transportation Services, Inc. provides demand-response paratransit service for seniors over 60 and people with disabilities Ithaca Dispatch, and Finger Lakes Taxi provides local and regional taxi service. Ithaca Airline Limousine connects to the airport.
Regional short haul freight trains reach Ithaca from Sayre, Pennsylvania, mainly to deliver coal to the Milliken Power Station halfway up Cayuga Lake. There is no passenger rail service, although from the 1870s through the 1930s there was service to Buffalo via Geneva, New York; to New York City via Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (Lehigh Valley Railroad) and Scranton, Pennsylvania (DL&W); to Auburn, New York; and to the US northeast via Cortland, New York; service to Buffalo and New York City lasted until 1961.
As a growing urban area, Ithaca is facing steady increases in levels of vehicular traffic on the city grid and on the state highways. Outlying areas have limited bus service, and many people consider a car essential.
However, Ithaca is a walkable and bikeable community for others. One positive trend for the health of downtown Ithaca is the new wave of increasing urban density in and around the Ithaca Commons. Because the downtown area is the region's central business district, dense mixed-use development that includes housing may increase the proportion of people who can walk to work and recreation, and mitigate the likely increased pressure on already busy roads as Ithaca grows. The downtown area is also the area best served by frequent public transportation. Still, traffic congestion around the Commons is likely to progressively increase.
Unlike most urbanized areas in the United States, Ithaca does not have direct access to the Interstate highway system. In 1968, it was proposed to convert Route 13 from Horseheads to Cortland through Ithaca into a limited access highway (it is currently such for three miles heading north from Ithaca), but the plan lost local and State support.[citation needed]
- For present transportational issues in Ithaca and reactions, see Present Transportation Concerns in Ithaca, New York
[edit] Other recent changes and trends
For decades, the Ithaca Gun Company tested their shotguns behind the plant on Lake St.; the shot fell into Fall Creek (a tributary of Cayuga Lake) right at the base of Ithaca Falls. A major clean-up effort sponsored by the United States Superfund took place from 2002 to 2004.[3]
There have been recent significant increases in property values in the city[citation needed]. House shopping is very competitive[citation needed].
The former Morse Chain company factory on South Hill, now owned by Emerson Power Transmission, was the site of extensive groundwater and soil contamination.[4] Emerson Power Transmission has been working with the state and South Hill residents to determine the extent and danger of the contamination and aid in cleanup.
[edit] Reputation
Ithaca is commonly listed among the most culturally liberal (or, to the like-minded, "enlightened") of American small cities. The Utne Reader named Ithaca "America's most enlightened town" in 1997.[5]. According to Epodunk's Gay Index, Ithaca has a score of 231, versus a national average score of 100.[6] In July 2006, Ithaca was listed as one of the "12 Hippest Hometowns for Vegetarians" by VegNews Magazine and chosen by Mother Earth News as one of the "12 Great Places You've Never Heard Of."[7]
These designations have at times polarized some local residents: some note the recognition with pride, some see it as an indication of decadence, and others feel that it is a narrow view of the community. Some, particularly conservatives, note that the positive press often appears in left-leaning publications, or have more general questions about the methodologies used in determining the designations.
In its earliest years during frontier days, what is now Ithaca was briefly known by the names "The Flats" and "Sodom,"[8] [9], the name of the Biblical city of sin, due to its reputation as a town of "notorious immorality"[10], because of its reputation as a place of horse racing, gambling, profanity, Sabbath breaking, and readily available liquor. These names did not last long; Simeon DeWitt renamed the town Ithaca in the early 1800s, though nearby Robert H. Treman State Park still contains Lucifer Falls.
That early reputation for immorality, together with its more recent reputation as having a left-leaning population, has once again made Ithaca mildly infamous in some circles as the "City of Evil," due to a satirical campaign by members of a politically conservative online discussion board. Some Ithacans have embraced the label, including Ithaca-based acoustic music group, Evil City Trio.[11]
[edit] Points of interest
- Cornell Plantations
- Cornell University
- Cornell Dairy Bar
- Ithaca College
- Ithaca Commons
- F.R. Newman Arboretum
- Sciencenter
- Paleontological Research Institution's Museum of the Earth
- Stewart Park
- Buttermilk Falls State Park
- Robert H. Treman State Park
- Finger Lakes Trail
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
For additional information about recreational trails see: Trails in Ithaca, New York.
[edit] Books set (at least partially) in Ithaca
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (schoolgirl dialog captured on Ithaca city buses)
- War Between the Tates by Alison Lurie ('Corinth University', a thinly-disguised portrait of Cornell)
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña ('Mentor University', same as above)
- The Widening Stain by Morris Bishop
- The Names of the Dead by Stewart O'Nan
- Enchantment by Orson Scott Card (partially set in Ithaca and fictional nearby towns)
- Various Kurt Vonnegut books have Ithaca references, most notably Player Piano
- Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
- The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
- Tess of the Storm Country by Grace White
- The Alex Bernier Mysteries by Beth Saulnier takes place in a fictionalized Ithaca known as Gabriel
- We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
- Triphammer by Dan McCall
- Mailman by J. Robert Lennon takes place in a fictionalized Ithaca known as Nestor
- Halfway Down the Stairs by Charles T. Thompson is a great pre-beat novel
- Z For Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
[edit] Movies set or filmed (at least partially) in Ithaca
- Green Lights (2002) — dir. Robert H. Lieberman
- The Manhattan Project — dir. Marshall Brickman
- Road Trip (2000) — dir. Todd Phillips
- The Sure Thing (1985) — dir. Rob Reiner
- Waiting on Alphie (2005) — dir. Kevin Hicks
See also The Whartons Studio for films shot in Ithaca prior to 1920.
[edit] Notable residents and natives
This list is abridged from
- Christopher Lavallee, resident, Production Designer/Art Director, Destiny's Child, Avenged Sevenfold, Christina Milian, LeeAnn Womack
- Josh Bard, native, professional baseball player, San Diego Padres, Catcher
- Hans Bethe, resident, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Cornell Professor, head of theoretical division of the Manhattan Project
- Adam C. Engst, native, resident, publisher of TidBITS and Take Control ebook series
- Richard Feynman, resident, physicist, Cornell Professor, Nobel Prize winner
- Mark Finkelstein, resident, journalist, columnist for Media Research Center, NewsBusters
- Alice Fulton, resident, poet, Cornell Professor, MacArthur Fellow
- Greg Graffin, resident, musician, lead singer of Bad Religion (Graffin actually lives a few miles away in nearby Lansing, New York)
- Alex Haley, native, author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the Autobiography of Malcolm X
- David Lee, resident, physicist, Cornell Professor, Nobel Prize winner
- J. Robert Lennon, resident, author (Mailman, Happyland)
- Mary McDonnell, native, actor in Dances With Wolves, Independence Day, Battlestar Galactica, and others
- Robert Moog, ex-resident (deceased 2005), engineer, pioneer of electronic music, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, creator of Moog Music originally named R.A. Moog Co. and Big Briar
- Vladimir Nabokov, resident, (deceased 1977), Cornell Professor, author (most famously of Lolita)
- Roy H. Park, resident, media executive, founder of Park Communications and the Park Foundation
- Robert C. Richardson, resident, physicist, Cornell Professor, Nobel Prize winner
- Carl Sagan, resident, astronomer, Cornell Professor, popularizer of science, and author and host of Cosmos
- Rod Serling, resident of Interlaken, NY 18 miles away in Seneca County, Ithaca College Professor, screenwriter, creator and host of The Twilight Zone
- Steve Squyres, resident, astronomer, Cornell Professor, Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
- Steven Stucky, resident, classical American composer, Cornell Professor, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Brian Wansink, resident, Cornell Professor and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
- E.B. White, resident, novelist, author of Charlotte's Web and co-author of The Elements of Style
- Robert R. Wilson, resident, physicist, head of the Cyclotron group of the Manhattan Project
- Paul Wolfowitz, native, academic, Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005), President of the World Bank (2005-)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15995648&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6
- ^ "3 Million Bus Passengers and Counting as TCAT Sets Record in 2005", Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT), December 19, 2005. Last Accessed on March 24, 2006.
- ^ "EPA Finishes $4.8 Million Cleanup at Ithaca Gun", United States Environmental Protection Agency, October 29, 2004. Last Accessed on March 25, 2006.
- ^ "Public Meeting - Emerson Power Transmission Environmental Investigation", New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. June 22, 2005.
- ^ Jay Walljasper, Jon Spayde, Ithaca, New York: A Gritty upstate City Where the Grassroots are Green, "America's 10 Most Enlightened Towns (and we don't mean Santa Fe)", May/June 1997 Issue, UTNE Reader
- ^ Superscript text{ http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=922} Like many small college towns, Ithaca has also received accolades for having a high overall quality of life. In 2004, Cities Ranked and Rated named Ithaca the best "emerging city" to live in the United States. In 2006, the Internet realty website "Relocate America" named Ithaca the fourth best city in the country to relocate to. <ref>Relocate-America.com, "Relocate-America.com's 2006 list of America's TOP 100 Places to Live." Available online [http://www.relocate-america.com/townvote.htm]. Last accessed 4 April 2006.</li> <li id="_note-6">'''[[#_ref-6|^]]''' Katherine Graham [http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060728/NEWS01/607280330/1002 "Ithaca gets high marks from two earthy publications"], July 28, 2006, The Ithaca Journal </li> <li id="_note-7">'''[[#_ref-7|^]]''' Dr. James Sullivan, [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/his/bk7/ch7.html "The History of New York State"], ''Book VII: [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/his/bk7/index.html "The Finger Lakes Region"], Chapter VII: Tompkins County''. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. (1927) Last Accessed on March 25, 2006. </li> <li id="_note-8">'''[[#_ref-8|^]]''' [[Carol Kammen]], [http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={480C93FC-88B9-4C3D-811D-BD7EE0E3F926}&DE={0F21E16C-E234-456D-8841-FF5C2F491300} "History of Ithaca and Tompkins County"], City of Ithaca. Last Accessed on March 25, 2006. </li> <li id="_note-9">'''[[#_ref-9|^]]''' See, e.g., 1811 article in local paper, at [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~townofithaca/maps/1866atlas/_P9D9571small.jpg] or Town of Ithaca History project, available [http://www.town.ithaca.ny.us/|online] (click on "History Project", then "Historical maps..." and finally "famous for its notorious immorality").</li> <li id="_note-10">'''[[#_ref-10|^]]''' "Evil City Trio," [http://www.evilcitytrio.com/], and the label is sometimes referenced in the local press, including the Ithaca Journal [http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Isv6OksqvnoJ:www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20060627/OPINION01/606270310/0/NEWS01+site:www.theithacajournal.com+%22city+of+evil%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2] and Cornell Daily Sun [http://www.cornellsun.com/node/10109]. Last Accessed 2 April 2006.</li></ol></ref>
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