Continuous businesses and signage and urban landscape stretches from Boston to Washington, DC. It's a megalopolis that is synonymous with the Best & Brightest in America. For most of US history, this is where the elite worked and lived.
Massachusetts, home to Boston, Cambridge, Lexington and Concord, has been a power center since the Colonial era. With the advent of Irish (Kennedy family) and Italian immigrants, the vibrancy of Boston continued into the 20th century. On the coast is Martha's Vineyard, an island retreat for the wealthy class, and the hook-shaped peninsula called Cape Cod, an artistic center.
Universities? Harvard, Amherst, Berklee, Boston U, Brandeis, Mt Holyoke, Tufts, Wellesley, Woods Hole Oceanographic, etc.
Rhode Island's capital is the small city of Providence. There you will find RISD, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Brown U.
Newport is a city about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, wealthy southern planters seeking to escape the heat began to build summer cottages on Bellevue Avenue such as Kingscote (1839).[5] Eventually wealthy Yankees such as the Wetmore family also began constructing larger mansions such as Chateau-sur-Mer (1852) nearby.[6] Most of these early families made a substantial part of their fortunes in the Old China Trade.[7] They were followed by the richest families in the country, such as the Vanderbilts and Astors who constructed the largest "cottages", such as The Breakers (1895) in the late nineteenth century.
The Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival are also famous in cultural history.
Connecticut has a coastline steeped in US history, including Mystic Seaport (a historic center for whaling and shipping) and New Haven, home of Yale U. Additionally: the US Coast Guard Academy and the U of Conn.
The part of Conn closest to NYC is home to many of the power mongers and celebrities (Martha Stewart, David Letterman, etc) who work in Manhattan.
NYC is still pretty much capital of the world. Among its institutions:
Columbia U, Barnard, CCNY, Cooper Union, FIT, Fordham, Hofstra, Hunter College, Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Marymount, New School for Social Research, NYU, Pace, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Rockefeller U, St Johns, School of Visual Arts, Union Theological Seminary.
Outside the city is Bard, Colgate, Cornell, St John's, Sarah Lawrence, SUNY, Syracuse, US Military Academy (West Point), Vassar, Yeshiva U.
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