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Downtown Binghamton is a neighborhood in Binghamton, New York, located on the north bank of the Susquehanna River, just east of its confluence with the Chenango River. It is the business and administrative center of the City of Binghamton, the Greater Binghamton area and Broome County .
The region was settled circa 1829, although the part currently within the city of Binghamton was settled in approximately 1802 and called "Chenango Point".. The town of Binghamton was formed in 1855 from a part of the town of Chenango, but part of the new town was lost when the village of Binghamton was first incorporated in 1834, leading in 1867, to the city of Binghamton.
Binghamton (/ ˈ b ɪ ŋ əm t ən / BING-əm-tən) is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. [4] Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. [5]
The American Civic Association, on Front Street, was the site of the Binghamton shooting, where 13 people were killed by a shooter before he committed suicide. Apart from commercial Main Street and some industrial buildings one block north of it along the Norfolk Southern tracks, the West Side of Binghamton is primarily an urban residential ...
It connects the Eastside directly to Downtown Binghamton and Kirkwood. The New York State Inebriate Asylum is located just west of the Kirkwood Town Line at the foot of Robinson Street. The Cameo Theater is a New York State landmark located on Robinson Street on the East Side.
Dollar General on Binghamton's West Side has been closed by the City of Binghamton Code Enforcement Office. The 68 Main St. building previously housed a CVS Pharmacy, which closed in January 2019.
Southside East can be defined as the area of the Southside of Binghamton east of Pennsylvania Avenue, stretching south and east to the Binghamton and Conklin town lines. The western section of South Side East is an urban neighborhood with blocks upon blocks of single to multiple-family dwellings.
As of the 2010 census, the North Side of Binghamton had a population of 1,969. 62.7% were White(Non-Hispanic), 18.7% African-American, 3.4% Asian and 9.6% Hispanic. The 2005-2009 American Community Survey estimates that 40.1% of the North Side was below the poverty level, including 48.8% of children younger than 18.