Across Upstate via US 20 (Rochester to Utica)?

[MinkeyM]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Seneca Falls and parts of Auburn's West Side have a pretty high Italian influence. There's also a strong Slavic concentration in Auburn around/near Casey Park in the NW section of the city, with the Polish Falcon club and the Ukrainian National Club across the street from each other. There is also an Ancient Order of Hibernian club(Irish) in that area of Auburn. Geneva has a Sons of Italy on Prospect Ave east of Main Street and just west of Route 14.

You are scary in your knowledge of the territory. I mean this in a good way. Not that I'd want to live in NYS any more (I think it sucks), but honey, you sure know your stuff.
Past/present congressional worker, or something?

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by MinkeyM

You are scary in your knowledge of the territory. I mean this in a good way. Not that I'd want to live in NYS any more (I think it sucks), but honey, you sure know your stuff.
Past/present congressional worker, or something?

No, just a map and stat/info nerd that has been to some of these communities as well. I'll put it this way, I would read World Book encyclopedias as a kid for fun or would help my dad navigate different ways when going Down South with an atlas in my lap. That is why I think people are misinterpreting the knowledge/information for being a homer, when it is just simply relaying knowledge/information.

Also, to the OP, if you like baseball, Falcon Park(the baseball stadium for the Class A Auburn Doubledays of the NY-Penn League), is adjacent to Casey Park. So, you have the stadium, Casey Park, as well as the Polish Falcons and the Ukrainian National Club in the same area. Correction, they are about a block or two down Washington St from each other. Here's a streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9420...ACNGg9uDwQ!2e0

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9386...jYok0p4jPQ!2e0

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9409...a1m1YCSUrA!2e0

You have these places in S/SW Auburn as well: Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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On the West Side straddling both sides of the arterial, you have this market: Indelicato

As well as these institutions: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Itali...=page_internal

Knights of Columbus - St. Francis of Assisi / St. Hyacinth - Auburn, NY

[Linda_d]

Originally Posted by Dayton Sux

Hmm...maybe a side trip to Cherry Valley! I just read about Cherry Valley in an old WPA Guide! It seems what is now US 20 was one of the major migration routes from New England into Upstate, so a lot of history on this road! Good! I am a big history buff too, tho my main reason for this route was more to experience the landscape and terraine....

I think that US 20 was originally the "Western Turnpike" (which is how Western Avenue in Albany/Guilderland got its name. Of course, the east-west turnpikes (which were private toll roads) were largely put out of business in the 1820s with the building of the Erie Canal, and the main road (and later railroads) across NYS moved northward to run along the canal route.