Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: New York is located in the northeastern United States , bordered by Lake Ontario and Canada on the north , Lake Erie and Canada on the west , Pennsylvania on the west and south , Vermont , Massachusetts , and Connecticut on the east , and New Jersey on the south and west of New York City .
Simplified: New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south , and by Connecticut , Massachusetts and Vermont to the east .