IIRC, every point of Ohio is part of some township or another, but for points within an incorporated city, few folks ever know or care about the township.
When a township is entirely filled up with incorporated municipalities (cities and villages), it effectively disappears. There is no longer any township government, there are no longer any signs indicating township boundaries, and it ceases to appear on maps, even on official maps made available to the public. Somewhere in the bowels of a bureaucratic office in Columbus there might be a map showing the original township borders, but for practical purposes if there’s no non-incorporated area, the township ceases to exist.
Furthermore, my understanding is that the law allows a city or a village to choose whether to remain part of a township (meaning that the residents get to vote in both city/village and township elections) or to secede from the township (meaning that if you live in incorporated territory, you get to vote in the municipal election and if you live in the non-incorporated territory, you get to vote in the township election, but no one gets to vote in both).
And apparently there’s also a Poland, New York and a Norway, New York.
I live down the road (relatively speaking) from Annamika. There is no difference, as far as I can tell, between Colonie and Guilderland, Niskayuna, Watervliet, Cohoes, or Albany (I believe those are all the entities that border Colonie.) At least when you go north you cross the Mohawk and when you go east you cross the Hudson. Hell, I live in the Town of Guilderland, in the Hamlet of Guilderland, and I have no idea what any of that really means other than purely local effects like property taxes and school districts.
I technically have to go through Albany to get to Colonie. Why? I have no idea. They just seem like neighborhoods in a metro area to me.
Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch.
Sorry, Ascenray, but a “town” is a legal entity - it is a division of a county, geographical area, not population. Maintains rural roads, for example. The village of New Baltimore, NY, is in the east end of the town of New Baltimore. Sometimes these are called townships. I have been known to carelessly call a village a town, so ambiguity is not unknown.
Sorry - there were posts while I was at supper that I didn’t read - I was referring to #22.
You’re missing the point. 'Mika was talking about the jurisdictions designated as towns, villages, etc., as defined by state law. You’re talking about some other meaning of the word. If the state defines them as separate jurisdictions, then they are separate jurisdictions when you’re talking about official jurisdictions. Your point really doesn’t follow on hers at all. If you want to talk about some other meaning of “town” or “city” then set forth your terms. Otherwise, your comment has no relationship to the comment you’re quoting from.
And you’re also missing the point. In Ohio, “town” has no legal meaning whatsoever. In New York, it does. Every state defines these words differently, and in some states some of the terms have no meaningful definition. and it’s obvious that the OP has no interest in this level of detail. My point is that for the purposes of the OP, you’re engaging in irrelevant minutiae.
Another big source of confusion is that many Amtrak trains to New York Penn Station stop at Newark Penn Station on the way. Some people get off at the wrong stop because the names are barely distinguishable over a PA system.
The somewhat more informed passenger will observe that Newark Penn is above ground and not much larger than a big subway station, and NY-Penn is completely underground, vast, and labyrinthine.
Incidentally, also an apt description of Hell.
In Manhattan, you probably don’t drive. You walk a few blocks in any direction and you can get all the services you need. If you specifically need a Sears, you might take a taxi or get on a subway or take a bus.
There were. In the late 70s and early 80s, gas was cheaper here in Canada. I used to pass by a hotel next door to a gas station on my way to work in those days, and the American cars that had stayed at the hotel would be filling up every morning–including the jerry cans they had brought.
Untrue.
Hell has useful signage.
I live in the “City of Cape Town”, which, confusingly enough, according to the municipal law here is neither a “city” nor a “town”. (It’s something called a “metropolitan municipality”.)
As Ascenray says, I’m not really sure what this has to do with my point (which was just some fun facts about upstate NY), but if you say you can’t see any difference between the townships then you are, with respect, crazy! 
Of course there are differences. Sure, they blur on the border, but I live less than four miles from downtown Albany and it’s a world of difference in crime, socio-economic status, types of people that live there, etc. Cohoes cops don’t go past the borders of Cohoes. Latham and Colonie charge vastly different rents. Schenectady is famous for being extremely accepting of Guyanese residents. Troy’s riverfront and everything away from the river might as well be in two different cities. Those are just a few little things.
Sure, there are many many similarities but there absolutely are differences. I’ve been living here since I was 20, and have lived in many of the different towns, and each one of them stick out in my head as something different.
And yes, Colonie local laws and ordinances are different from Albany’s, on a grass-roots level, which is what matters to me after all. I mean, I’m not really even sure of your point. They all look the same?
About a 30% exchange rate in our favor. We shopped in Canada all the time in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Heck. We used to make beer runs, for the superior Canadian Molson’s, over the NY border two hours away, a couple times a year. Now you need a passport. Everyone in the car.
When NY state went to drinking age of 19, Ontario was still 18. That was golden- beer runs across the border. Unfortunately, I was still 17. Sigh.
The spelling.