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Exciting news for fans of the 'Call Me Maybe' singer - she's coming to the area. The star will be performing at the Cornell University in Ithaca.

You can rub shoulders with the brightest faculty and students in the world right here in New York. Cornell University was recently named the 13th Best University in the world.

College Ranker recently complied a list of the Top 50 College Towns to live in forever. Two New York cities made the list.

The Ithaca-Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau is taking a different approach to tourism for the winter months - and inviting you to head to an entirely different state!

The rivalry between two small schools in Upstate New York is the best in America. The 'Cortaca' game occurs annually between the State University of New York at Cortland and neighboring Ithaca College. This is why it's the best rivalry in the nation.

Utica is home to a family of peregrine falcons atop the Adirondack Bank Building downtown. Another Upstate New York city has recently been smitten with baby birds in residence.

Twice each year, the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library swing open the doors to their warehouse on Esty Street in Ithaca for Upstate New York (and, no exaggeration, possibly the world's) largest used book sale.

We were walking near the Erie Canal in Utica this past weekend and encountered the domicile of a homeless man - a tent under an overpass, and it got me thinking about homeless people in Upstate New York. In Ithaca, the homeless have taken a part of town as their own and called it the Jungle.

Upstate New York's largest book sale will be held in Ithaca over the next three weekends.

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and the unofficial mayor of Twitter, gave some social media love to Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick recently.

This weekend marks the first of three for the largest charity book sale in the region:  the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Book Sale in Ithaca.