Historically, most of this district was located in
Upstate New York. In the 1960s, the 25th district was a
Westchester/
Rockland seat, covering areas now in the
17th and
18th districts. In the 1970s it was the lower
Hudson Valley district and congruent to the present
19th district. Onondaga County was split between the
32nd district (which included rural counties east of Syracuse now in the
23rd and
24th districts) and the
33rd district (which included the Finger Lakes counties in the 24th and
29th districts). In the 1980s, the district was centered in the
Utica area (now the 24th district), and the
Syracuse area was entirely in the
27th district. From 2003 to 2013, it stretched from
Syracuse to the northeastern suburbs of Rochester. The district comprised
Onondaga and
Wayne counties, the northernmost portion of
Cayuga County, and the towns of
Irondequoit,
Penfield, and
Webster in
Monroe County. The district included 100 miles of
Lake Ontario shoreline, the easternmost
Finger Lakes, and significant portions of the
Erie Canal. == Counties, towns, and municipalities ==