New York

Entered State Hood

July 26, 1788

Capital

Albany

Famous People

Tupac Shakur rapper
Michael Jeffery Jordan
basketball player
Billy Joel singer

President

Millard Fillmore
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

State Bird

Bluebird

State Tree

Western Hemlock

State Flower

Pink Rhododendron

State Nickname

The Evergreen State

State Motto

Indian word meaning
“by and by"