• the recent ice storm in the Northeastern United States was the worst in over a decade, resulting in at least four deaths and more than a million utility customers left without power?
• the Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10, 1989?
• the Catskills' Esopus Creek (pictured, near Shandaken) is one of the most productive trout streams in the Northeast?
• one of the two extant buildings from the first electric power station in Saratoga Springs, New York, is one of the few remaining 19th-century gasholder houses (pictured) in the Northeast?

Facts on topics related to Northeastern United States

New England

• "pumpkin sauce," or mashed pumpkin (pictured), was served at inns in New England as early as 1704?
• populations of the butterfly Henry's Elfin are growing in New England due to the introduction of buckthorn, which the butterflies now use as a host plant?
• surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores, which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?
• Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England, and the largest community bank in Massachusetts?
• Little Liberia in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Hard Scrabble in Providence, Rhode Island, were two urban New England neighborhoods created by free blacks in the early 19th century?
• NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans relies on help from inmates from 15 New England correctional facilities to train many of its assistance dogs?
• an unnamed hurricane in October, 1804 brought up to three feet of snow to parts of New England?
• The Great Snow of 1717 lasted nine days and caused snowdrifts more than 20 feet (6 m) high in New England, USA?
• Travel + Leisure named Wasque ("way-squee") on Chappaquiddick the number one beach in New England?
• in 1920 the publishers of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs invented the fictional town of Stotham, Massachusetts, as the purported home for several early New England structures?

Midwestern United States

• an extreme derecho that struck the southern portions of the Midwestern United States on May 8, 2009, is considered the worst in at least a decade?
• the Midwestern United States territory band leader Nat Towles' fear of losing his best musicians kept him from striving for national prominence in the 1930s and 40s?
• the long-nosed god maskettes (pictured) found throughout the American Midwest are believed to have been used in the ritual adoption of visiting tribal leaders?
• the author of the American book How the Scots Invented the Modern World is from the Midwestern United States and has no Scottish in his ancestral background?

Hudson River

• preservationists moved the Boscobel mansion 15 miles (24 km) up the Hudson River to save it?
• John Champe, American Revolutionary rebel double-agent sent to capture Benedict Arnold, was spotted and chased from the landmark the Three Pigeons by fellow rebels, before diving into the Hudson?
• Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?
• Moodna Creek (pictured), a tributary of the Hudson, was originally known as "Murderers' Creek" after a family was massacred on its banks?
• Wood's Monument at West Point was used as a navigational aide for ships passing down the Hudson River?
• after Moses Collyer built his retirement home (pictured) in Chelsea, New York, he cowrote the definitive history of the sail era in Hudson River navigation?
• before restoring ferry service across the Hudson River between Newburgh and Beacon, NY Waterway had to strengthen the boat's hull so it could withstand river ice?
• due to a lack of freight crossings of the Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into New York City from the south or west?
• in 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York, to the Hudson River?
• the pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York, is now home to a brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center?

Northwestern United States

• the Binford & Mort publishing company in Hillsboro, Oregon, was once the largest book publisher in the Northwestern United States?

Catskill Mountains

• Oscar Wilde praised the location of a resort hotel at the foot, rather than the summit, of the Catskills' Mount Tremper (pictured) because it provided better views?
• Balsam Lake Mountain (pictured) in the Catskills was the site of the first fire lookout tower in New York State?
• Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue in Fleischmanns, New York, is unique among Catskill synagogues in having an exposed truss ceiling in its sanctuary?
• Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
• Mountain Lake, one of only two natural lakes in Virginia, was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains for the 1987 feature film Dirty Dancing?
• Stony Clove Notch, a pass in the Catskill Mountains, was once so narrow that it could only be traversed by people walking in single file?
• artist and hotelier Emile Brunel's studio in Boiceville, New York, is an imitation of a European farmhouse, an unusual style in the Catskills?
• even though Kaaterskill High Peak (pictured) was the first Catskill High Peak to be climbed, there is no official trail to its summit?
• one common route up New York's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills?
• some of the architectural elements of the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns, New York, suggest contemporary train stations in the Catskill region?

Finger Lakes

• in 1979 Stanley Wagner opened his vineyard in the Finger Lakes area and by 1981 The New York Times said its wine had the characteristics of "some of the great white Burgundies of France"?

New Jersey

• College Football Hall of Fame inductee Stan "Bags" Pennock was killed in an explosion that wrecked the chemical plant he opened in an abandoned New Jersey slaughterhouse?
• New Jersey's Museum of Early Trades and Crafts houses a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land over a 50-year span?
• New Jersey's Pigeon Swamp State Park, named for 18th-century landowner Ann Pidgeon, was a nesting place for passenger pigeons before they became extinct in the early 20th century?
• Assembly member Gerald H. Zecker justified higher car insurance rates for drivers in New Jersey's largest cities because "cars in Newark are stolen and wrecked in far greater numbers"?
• New Jersey General Assemblyman Peter J. Genova sponsored a bill that would make English the state's official language, stating that "Spanish has just grown too prominent in New Jersey"?
• State Senator John H. Ewing of New Jersey's 16th District opposed state funding for poorer school districts, as "some drive a Ford Taurus, like me", but "we can't pay for everyone to drive a Mercedes"?
• Union's Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church (pictured) was the first church in New Jersey to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
• white Republican State Senator Norman M. Robertson criticized New Jersey's 2001 redistricting plan, stating "that the map is racist" in reducing the voting strength of African-American voters?
• Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as Poland and New Jersey?
• Arline Friscia sponsored a bill making New Jersey the first U.S. state to require businesses with 50+ employees to rehire a worker at the same or comparable position after taking a family leave?

New York

• 14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
• Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms (pictured) that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
• BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?
• Bernt Carlsson, the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York?
• Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector?
• comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York's comedians?
• Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
• Jack Womack's 2000 alternate history novel Going, Going, Gone is set in two converging parallel versions of New York?
• New York Governor David Paterson's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday?
• New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans?