{"id":330790,"date":"2026-08-27T04:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330790\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T04:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:04:24","slug":"great-new-york-state-fair-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330790\/","title":{"rendered":"Great New York State Fair opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYRACUSE \u2014 AGRICULTURE EXHIBITS, plentiful eats, a dairy cattle competition, 4-H Miniature Horse Show and a showcase of magnificent horses, historic trains, milk bar, and the famous $1 baked and salt potatoes \u2014 with toppings like butter, cheese and sour cream made from New York milk \u2014 are just some of the many reasons to visit the Great New York State Fair, which opened Wednesday with a <a href=\"https:\/\/nysfair.ny.gov\/governor-hochul-amtrak-and-new-york-state-department-of-transportation-announce-tickets-now-on-sale-for-direct-train-service-to-great-new-york-state-fair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ribbon cutting<\/a> by Gov. Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment includes fare like waterski, jet ski and wakeboard stunts; racing dogs; a \u201cmagical\u201d drone show and more than 40 national recording acts in the Chevrolet Music Series. All entertainment is included in the $8 admission ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak offers special direct service from NYC to the entrance of the fair, which runs through Labor Day, Monday, September 7. Tickets are on sale at <a href=\"https:\/\/nysfair.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">nysfair.ny.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE \u2014 AGRICULTURE EXHIBITS, plentiful eats, a dairy cattle competition, 4-H Miniature Horse Show and a showcase of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3302,426,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-330790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-breaking","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}