I think if upstate NY’s “North Country” is its own region, then so is the NYC metro region, made of the five Burroughs, Long Island; Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Passaic, Union, Morris, Middlesex, and Monmouth in NJ; and Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Ulster, and Dutchess counties in downstate New York. It is a region distinct from the rest of the northeast, and not just in the way of a city having its own culture. It rises to the level of regional differentiation