This is a list of municipalities in New York, which includes all 534

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and 62

cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

of New York. At the time of the

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, the state of New York had 555 villages. Since then, 21 villages were dissolved (four in Cattaraugus County, three in Oneida County, two each in Chautauqua County, St. Lawrence County and Wayne County, one each in Essex County, Jefferson County, Seneca County, Washington County and

Oswego County Oswego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 117,525. The county seat is Oswego. The county name is from a Mohawk-language word meaning "the pouring out place", referring to the point at ...

as well as Keeseville in Clinton and Essex counties), while one new village was created in Suffolk County ( Mastic Beach).New York State Department of State, ''New York Department of State Announces Grant Awards to Assist the Town and Village of Salem with Village Dissolution'', Press Release, July 13, 2015
Retrieved Mar. 16, 2016. After only seven years of being incorporated, the Village of Mastic Beach dissolved on December 31, 2017.CBS New York, ''Mastic Beach Residents Vote To Dissolve Village'', November 17, 2016
Retrieved Jan. 17, 2017.Newsday, ''Mastic Beach holds election despite move to dissolve village'' by Deon J. Hampton, March 15, 2017
Retrieved Jul. 6, 2017.''The Post Journal'', ''Cherry Creek Unveils Dissolution Details'' by Greg Fox, June 25, 2017
Retrieved Jul. 6, 2017. The village of

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in Chemung County and the village of Harrisville in Lewis County were both dissolved on December 31, 2018, while the village of Morristown in St. Lawrence County was dissolved on December 31, 2019. The village of

South Nyack, New York South Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Grand View-on-Hudson, northeast of Orangeburg, east of Blauvelt State Park, south of Nyack and ...

was dissolved in 2022. Most municipalities in New York are located within a single

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and county, but some municipalities are located in more than one town. Of those, there are ten municipalities located in more than one county: * Almond (Allegany & Steuben Counties) *

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(Genesee & Wyoming Counties) * Deposit (Broome & Delaware Counties) * Dolgeville (Fulton & Herkimer Counties) *

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...

(Ontario & Seneca Counties) * Gowanda (Cattaraugus & Erie Counties) * New York (Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens & Richmond Counties) * Rushville (Ontario & Yates Counties) * Saranac Lake (Essex & Franklin Counties)

Extremes in size and population

The most populous and largest city by area in the state is by far

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, home to 8,804,190 people and comprising just over of land ( including water). The least populous city is Sherrill, with just 3,071 inhabitants. The smallest city by area is Mechanicville, which covers (of which is water). * Smallest village, by area: South Floral Park – * Largest village, by area: Speculator – * Smallest village, by population: Dering Harbor – 50 (2020) * Largest village, by population: Hempstead – 59,169 (2020)

Former villages

Listed below are former villages in the State of New York which either dissolved, consolidated or were acquired by another municipality between 1900 and 2018. To date during this period, there are a total of 47 villages that have chosen dissolution with more expected in the upcoming years.CGR - New York Code Article 19, Section 19: Dissolution of Villages
Retrieved Jun. 15, 2015. A former village does have the option to re-incorporate in the future if the community chooses to do so. Unless otherwise specified, these communities are currently (or will be) considered

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s by the

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Gallery

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, largest city in New York and the

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. File:Buffalo Panorama 2015.jpg, Buffalo, the second largest city in New York File:2013-05-05 13 23 39 View of Yonkers, New York from Alpine Overlook on the New Jersey Palisades.jpg,

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, the third largest. File:Rochester Dec 2015.jpg,

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, the fourth largest. File:Syracuse skyline.jpg, Syracuse, the fifth largest. File:AlbanyNewYorkfromRensselaer.jpg, Albany, the sixth largest and capital of New York. File:SW End US 1 Split; New Rochelle, NY.jpg,

New Rochelle New Rochelle (; older french: La Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state. In 2020, the city had a population of 79,726, making it the seventh-largest in the state o ...

, the seventh largest. File:NY 22 in Mount Vernon.JPG,

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, the eighth largest File:Schenectady skyline.jpg,

Schenectady Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New Y ...

, the ninth largest. File:Utica NY as seen from the Arterial.jpg, Utica, the tenth largest File:City of White Plains, Jul 2012.jpg, White Plains, the eleventh largest. File:Niagara Falls, New York from Skylon Tower cropped.jpg,

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, the twelfth largest. File:Downtown Troy.JPG,

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, the thirteenth largest. File:Binghamton, New York skyline, June 2007.jpg,

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, the fourteenth largest. File:Long Beach, NY aerial from the west 01 - equalized (9454116483).jpg,

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, the sixteenth largest. File:Poughkeepsie, NY with evening balloon take-off.JPG,

Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie ( ), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it) is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsie ...

, the seventeenth largest. File:Downtown Jamestown.JPG, Jamestown, the nineteenth largest. File:Publicsquareeast2008.JPG,

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, the twenty-fifth largest.

Footnotes

^ Geneva is located within both the counties of Ontario and
Seneca Seneca may refer to: People and language * Seneca (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname * Seneca people, one of the six Iroquois tribes of North America ** Seneca language, the language of the Seneca people Places Extrat ...
, although the section in Seneca County has no population and is all water.
^ 1653 is the officially recognized date. Peter Stuyvesant convinced the States General of the Netherlands to charter the city of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1653. The English envoy,
Richard Nicolls Richard Nicolls (sometimes written as Nichols, 1624 – 28 May 1672) was the first English colonial governor of New York province. Early life Nicolls was born in 1624 in Ampthill in Bedfordshire, England. He was the son of Francis Nicolls (1 ...
, renamed the city "New York" two days after capturing it in 1664. Provincial governor
Thomas Dongan Thomas Dongan, (pronounced "Dungan") 2nd Earl of Limerick (1634 – 14 December 1715), was a member of the Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War, and Governor of the Province of New York. He is noted for hav ...
rechartered the city under the auspices of the Duke of York in 1683, though the charter was not published until 1686. Finally, New York was reincorporated to include all five of its present boroughs in 1898.

References

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Cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

Extremes in size and population

Former villages

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See also

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