Q:Information: - The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. - The Ulster and Delaware Railroad (U&D) was a railroad located in the state of New York. It was often advertised as "The Only All-Rail Route to the Catskill Mountains." At its greatest extent, the U&D extended from Kingston Point on the Hudson River, through the Catskill Mountains to its western terminus at Oneonta, passing through the counties of Ulster, Delaware, Schoharie and Otsego. - The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States. The river originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, flows through the Hudson Valley, and eventually drains into the Atlantic Ocean, between New York City and Jersey City. The river serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and New York, and further north between New York counties. The lower half of the river is a tidal estuary occupying the Hudson Fjord, which formed during the most recent period of North American glaciation, estimated at 26,000 to 13,300 years ago. Tidal waters influence the Hudson's flow from as far north as Troy. - Stony Clove Notch is a narrow pass , roughly 2,220 feet ( 677 m ) in elevation located in the Town of Hunter in Greene County , New York , deep in the Catskill Mountains . It is traversed by New York State Route 214 , although in the past the Ulster and Delaware Railroad went through it as well . The notch divides Hunter and Plateau mountains . There is just enough room for the road , and the steep , soaring slopes of both mountains are some of the Catskills ' most striking scenery , with landslides and rocky cliffs visible . It sits at one end of the range of mountains known as the Devil 's Path , and early visitors found it a terrifying place to visit . Today it is a popular destination not only for tourists in the region but for outdoor recreationists as well . One of the Catskills ' major hiking trails crosses the road near the notch , and ice climbers and snowboarders have lately been attracted to the cliffs and slopes in winter . - The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a large area in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York. They are located approximately north-northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, starting just west of the Hudson River. The Catskills occupy much or all of five counties (Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster), with some areas falling into the boundaries of southwestern Albany, eastern Broome, northwestern Orange, and southern Otsego counties. Foothills are also found in southeastern Chenango, southern Montgomery, northern Otsego, and western Schenectady counties. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a forest preserve protected from many forms of development under New York state law. - New York State Route214 (NY214) is a long state highway through the Catskill Park sections of Ulster and Greene counties. The route begins at an intersection with NY28 in the town of Shandaken, just southwest of the hamlet of Phoenicia. The route runs through the narrow mountain pass called Stony Clove Notch before reaching the town of Hunter, where it ends at NY23A. - The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in New York in the United States. It consists of of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. As of 2005, or 41 percent of the land within, is owned by the state as part of the Forest Preserve; it is managed by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Another 5% is owned by New York City to protect four of the city's reservoirs in the region that lie partially within the park and their respective watersheds. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'stony clove notch'. Choices: - area - city - city of new york - county - education - elevation - estuary - finance - five - forest - four - geographic region - intersection - mountain pass - ocean - park - period - point - population - region - research - river - route - state - state highway - technology - term - town - valley
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