Welcome to Ithaca
To celebrate new student move-in day, thought it’d be fun to share a few random facts about the Town in the town/gown relationship:
- 150: Waterfalls within 10-mile radius of downtown Ithaca
- 215 feet: Height of Taughannock Falls, greater vertical drop than Niagara
- 38: Length in miles of Cayuga Lake (longest of the 11 Finger Lakes)
- 134: Restaurants in the city of Ithaca, supposedly more restaurants per capita than New York City.
- 128: Species of fish in the Finger Lakes
- 12: Cookbooks written by the Moosewood Collective
- 30,000: Population from 2010 census (+2.5 gain since 2000); 49.6% female, 50.4% male
- $31,000: Median household income (2006-2010); US is $52,000
- 10: Locations you can buy trash tags
- $0: cost for first-year students to ride city buses; also for all students after 6 p.m. weekdays and weekends
- 9: Minutes it takes to ride a bike from North Campus to the Commons
- 25: Minutes it takes to ride back up
- 204: Beds at Cayuga Medical Center
- 100: Wineries, breweries and distilleries around the Finger Lakes