Ithaca, NY

Ithaca is a city in Tompkins County, New York, and the county seat, situated at the southern end of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region. The city takes its name from the Greek island of Ithaca, home of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. It is best known as a college town, home to Cornell University—an Ivy League institution founded by Ezra Cornell in 1865—an...