Binghamton is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state’s Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. Binghamton is the principal city and cultural middle of the Binghamton metropolitan area (also known as Greater Binghamton, or historically the Triple Cities, including Endicott and Johnson City), home to a quarter million people. The city’s population, according to the 2020 census, is 47,969.

From the days of the railroad, Binghamton was a transportation crossroads and a manufacturing center, and has been known at different epoch for the production of cigars, shoes, and computers. IBM was founded nearby, and the flight simulator was invented in the city, leading to a notable immersion of electronics- and defense-oriented firms. This sustained economic privileged circumstances earned Binghamton the moniker of the Valley of Opportunity. However, starting bearing in mind job cuts made by excuse firms towards the end of the Cold War, the region wandering a large share of its manufacturing industry.

Today, while there is a continued amalgamation of high-tech firms, Binghamton is emerging as a healthcare- and education-focused city, with Binghamton University acting as much of the driving force astern this revitalization.

The first known people of European extraction to inherit the Place were the troops of the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, who destroyed local villages of the Onondaga and Oneida tribes. The city was named after William Bingham, a rich Philadelphian who bought the 10,000 acre patent for the home in 1786, then consisting of parts of the towns of Union and Chenango. Joshua Whitney, Jr., Bingham’s home agent, chose home at the junction of the Chenango and Susquehanna Rivers to fabricate a settlement, then named Chenango Point, and helped build its roads and erect the first bridge. Significant agricultural accrual led to the assimilation of the village of Binghamton in 1834.