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History · Northeast Ithaca

Half of Northeast Ithaca’s homes were built after 1969

Most of Northeast Ithaca was built recently: 0.2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1969. Below: maps from 1900 on.

0on the National Register
0.2%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Northeast Ithaca’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Northeast Ithaca are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19005 editions of the USGS map, 1900 to 1978. Watch Northeast Ithaca change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Northeast Ithaca’s history is told.

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On the map

Northeast Ithaca on the map, 1900 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Northeast Ithaca. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Northeast Ithaca on the 1900 USGS mapNortheast Ithaca on the 1949 USGS mapNortheast Ithaca on the 1951 USGS mapNortheast Ithaca on the 1969 USGS mapNortheast Ithaca on the 1978 USGS map1900Dryden sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Northeast Ithaca.

The story

How Northeast Ithaca came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Northeast Ithaca.

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Northeast Ithaca was settled in the 1950s and 1960s. It was one of the first suburbs of Ithaca, NY.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Northeast Ithaca

Nobody well known was born in Northeast Ithaca itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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David Foster WallaceAmerican fiction writer and essayist · b. 1962
Alex HaleyAmerican biographer, screenwriter, and novelist · b. 1921
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Susan KareAmerican artist and graphic designer · b. 1954
Margaret GellerAmerican astronomer · b. 1947
Kyle DakeAmerican wrestler · b. 1991
Dustin BrownAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1984
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Ithaca7 historic placesBCayuga HeightsIts storyC−LansingIts storyCLansing1 historic placeBDryden11 historic placesA−

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.