Ithaca (City, New York)
| Ithaca | |||
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 Historic Clinton House , Ithaca |
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| Location in New York | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1790 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Tompkins County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 27 ′ N , 76 ° 30 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
30,014 (status: 2010) 101,564 (status: 2010) |
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| Population density : | 2,143.9 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 15.7 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) of which 14.0 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 120 m | ||
| Postal code : | 14850 | ||
| Area code : | +1 607 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-38077 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 979099 | ||
| Website : | www.cityofithaca.org | ||
| Mayor : | Svante Myrick | ||
Ithaca (named after the Ionian island of Ithaca ) is a city in Tompkins County in the US -amerikanischen State New York . According to the 2010 census, the population was 30,014, the population density was 2,143.9 inhabitants per km².
geography
Ithaca is located on Cayuga Lake (one of the Finger Lakes ) in the center of New York State, about 350 km from New York City . The landscape is mountainous and criss-crossed by many waterfalls, for example the Buttermilk Falls in the village or the Taughannock Falls outside the village .
meaning
Ithaca is home to Cornell University, with many research facilities that produced large numbers of Nobel Prize winners, and Ithaca College . The area around Ithaca is famous for its viticulture, tourism also plays a certain role because of the beautiful landscape and the region's unusually rich cultural life.
sons and daughters of the town
- Dustin Brown (born 1984), ice hockey player
- Tim DeKay (born 1963), actor
- Julius Eastman (1940–1990), composer of minimal music
- John H. Gear (1825-1900), politician
- Margaret Geller (* 1947), astrophysicist
- Henry Guerlac (1910–1985), historian of science
- Alex Haley (1921–1992), writer
- Lewis Hartsough (1828-1919), Methodist pastor and songwriter
- Brian Hastings (* 1988), poker player and entrepreneur
- Alfred Hayes (1910–1989), banker and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Bruce Heming (1939–2018), entomologist and evolutionary biologist
- Ray June (1895-1958), cameraman
- Susan Kare (* 1954), graphic designer
- Mia Korf (* 1965), actress
- James Creel "Jim" Marshall (* 1948), politician
- Ruth I. Michler (1967–2000), American born mathematician of German descent
- Paul Linford Richards (* 1934), astrophysicist
- Tim Sale (* 1956), comic artist
- Charles P. Slichter (1924–2018), solid-state physicist
- Kareem Streete-Thompson (* 1973), track and field athlete
- Eugene Schuyler (1840–1890), writer, explorer and diplomat
- Anja Sturm (* 1970), lawyer
- David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), writer
- Jennifer Yu (* 2002), chess player
- Suzana Žigante (* 1994), football player
