[Kevin Leonard]

This is actually a really important subject that the state needs to discuss sometime soon.
New York as a district is complicated in a number of ways.
As Dominick said, New York's FRC teams can be split into three major regions: Western NY, NY and Long Island, and Central NY and the Capital District.

NY currently hosts four regionals: The Finger Lakes Regional, The New York Tech Valley Regional, The New York City Regional, and the SBPLI Long Island Regional.

FLR is often visited by teams from Ontario, TVR this year was visited by teams from Ontario, NE, and MAR, NYC is traditionally visited by numerous international teams due to NYC's history as a hub for tourism, and SBPLI additionally hosted international teams recently.

New York not only faces a problem of teams having to travel distances for events, but also the problem of having teams often visit these events from other areas.

Proposal 1: New York as one district
The basic proposal is to make New York into one giant district. This is not impossible. A district championship could be located in either Syracuse, Albany, or NYC fairly well.
This proposal hurts FIRST's growth abroad, as teams from other countries who traditionally travel to any of the events in NY will have to find new regionals to attend.
It is also difficult to travel to district Champs for many teams regardless of where you locate the DCMP.

Proposal 2:The Upstate New York District
Upstate NY becomes it's own district, with a District Champs located in Syracuse. This leaves NYC and SBPLI as an area with Regionals, and forces teams that had been attending TVR or FLR from Long Island to go elsewhere. Upstate New York also has a much smaller amount of teams without the City.

Proposal 3:New York joins nearby districts
A few proposals I've seen merge Western New York with either Ohio or Ontario for districts. The capital Region could then merge with New England. This leaves many central New York teams in a state of limbo, having to either join one of the two districts, or stuck in-between.
This also leaves NYC/LI without districts.
EDIT: Or with NYC/LI as a part of MAR.

I don't know which is best for the state or for FIRST, and I don't know what other proposals exist.