Great New York State Fair - Recent Years

Recent Years

In recent years, the state fair Director has reestablished and enhanced the annual state fair’s role in promoting agriculture, local food production and New York State businesses. The addition of the Pride of New York Marketplace has increased fairgoers’ knowledge of products created in New York State. Additionally, a permanent maple stand, farmer’s market tent and restaurants featuring only food with ingredients from New York State have been added to the growing list of fairgrounds attractions.

Since 2008, the state fair Director has made several efforts to make the New York State Fair a more family friendly environment which has eliminated public safety incidents over the past four years.

Attendance has increased or remained consistent each year with records made in paid attendance, State Fair Grandstand concert attendance, and Chevy Court concert attendance over the past three years. 2010 marked the third highest attended fair in history, with 999,845 attendees. 2010 and 2011 each had days in which the record attendance for one day was broken, in one instance by more than 20,000.

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