Less than the map suggests: Albany, Buffalo, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, New York City, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Schenectady, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, White Plains. Among them, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains are Westchester cities, in the suburban belt that shares its southern boundary with New York City. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica are canal towns the Erie Canal brought major growth to after 1825, and Schenectady stands on the Mohawk along the same route. Albany, where the canal reached the Hudson, was settled in 1614 and had been the state capital for a generation before the canal was dug; Troy, on the east bank just upstream, predates it too. Niagara Falls is out on the Canadian border, across the river from its Ontario namesake.