New York State (1983: Doomsday)

New York state was one of the founding states of the United States of America, and was one of the most heavily populated states in the U.S. on Doomsday. It included New York City, which was headquarters to numerous global and national businesses and industries, as well as a leading global cultural, media and entertainment center.

New York City was heavily hit on Doomsday; that, and the belief that the northeast U.S. would have been either destroyed by nuclear strikes or covered in radiation from fallout, resulted in the popular (but unconfirmed) belief that no one at all survived in the state nor in adjacent Pennsylvania and New Jersey. That view was seemingly confirmed when Vermont military expeditions saw no signs of life along the Vermont-New York state borders several years ago.

As it turns out, there still is life in New York State. The following information comes from scouting expeditions made by the Vermont Army and private explorers from South America and Canada, plus information from residents and leaders of recently discovered survivor communities in Pennsylvania. Some information also comes from former members of the St. Lawrence Raiders warlord gang that terrorized Canada and Vermont in the 1980s and 1990s.

Destroyed sites
New York City is believed to have taken the most hits of any metropolitan area in the United States other than Washington, D.C. The destroyed sites include all five boroughs (Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn), plus the following areas:
 * all of Long Island except for an area from Hampton Bays up to Hither Woods in eastern portion of the island
 * the Yonkers/Mount Vernon/New Rochelle/Pelham/White Plains area north of the Bronx

Nothing has been confirmed to have come out of the region since Doomsday. NYC was not the only site in New York state to have been hit, however.
 * The cities of Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Binghamton and Schenectady were hit.
 * The Plattsburgh Air Force Base was hit, destroying the base and severely damaging Plattsburgh and nearby Burlington, Vermont (the latter was eventually rebuilt and resettled in the 1990s by Vermont).
 * Griffiss AFB was also hit; the blast decimated adjacent Rome and did severe damage to Utica.
 * Stewart International Airport - home to the New York Air National Guard and several USAF reserve units - in Newburgh was hit. This is considered the northernmost strike of the multiple hits in the NYC region.
 * The Watervliet Arsenal is believed to have been ground zero for a hit that decimated the town of Watervliet and adjacent city of Troy.

Survivor communities

 * The largest group of communities is located in southern New York, close to the Pennsylvania border, and includes the cities of Ithaca and Binghamton. It stretches as far east at Oneonta and as far west as Westfield, located on Lake Erie. These communities were believed as rumor by those in survivor communities in Pennsylvania for a number of years, until confirmed by scouting expeditions from the St. Mary, Pennsylvania government in the early 2000s.
 * A group of survivor communities in southeastern New York, stretching roughly from Hudson to Rock Hill about 20-40 miles west of the border between former New York and Massachusetts and Connecticut states, was discovered by Vermont scouts in March 2010. These communities keep to themselves, and are protected by a militia group named after the defunct New York Rangers professional hockey team.
 * Survivors in northern New York, especially those from hits on Plattsburgh AFB and Fort Drum, rallied in Lake Placid or in Malone. The Malone survivors were believed to have been targeted by the St. Lawrence Raiders warlords; the remaining refugees, and their descendants, live in Malone and keep to themselves. Those in Lake Placid were more eager to meet with visiting explorers from Vermont (though they asked them why they hadn't made their way there earlier).
 * There is also a recently settled community in the former town of Keene, populated mostly by people from New Hampshire County in Vermont who wanted to form their own independent nation. Keene has reached out to the Lake Placid and Malone survivor communities.