Place:Cayuga Heights, Tompkins, New York, United States

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NameCayuga Heights
TypeVillage
Coordinates42.466°N 76.489°W
Located inTompkins, New York, United States     (1915 - )
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Cayuga Heights is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States and an upscale suburb of Ithaca. The village is in the Town of Ithaca, directly northeast of the City of Ithaca and Cornell University's main campus.

The population was 3,729 at the 2010 census. The village is home to many faculty members at Cornell, including its president.

After the Revolutionary War, much of Upstate New York was divided into tracts to be given to veterans. Several veterans received lots in what is now Cayuga Heights and started farms.

In 1901, local businessmen Charles Newman and Jared Blood bought nearly 1,000 acres of farmland and started the Cayuga Heights Land Company. Cayuga Heights was incorporated as a village in 1915, consisting of a one-half square mile of land from the City of Ithaca line to what is now Upland Road. In 1924, Cayuga Heights Elementary School was built. The village resisted attempts to be annexed by the growing City of Ithaca, and instead more than tripled in size in 1954 when it annexed approximately 1.4 square miles of land in the Town of Ithaca extending from Upland Road to the Town of Lansing border.

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