Harvey Keitel Ed Koch Burt Lancaster Cyndi Lauper John Leguizamo Vince Lombardi Bernard Madoff Barry Manilow Garry Marshall Penny Marshall The Marx Brothers; prominently Groucho Marx Jackie Mason Walter Matthau Debi Mazar John Mearsheimer Al Michaels Chris Mullin Al Pacino Joe Paterno Rosie Perez Rhea Perlman Regis Philbin Colin Quinn George Raft Charles Rangel Michael Rapaport Paul Reiser Leah Remini Linda Richman Don Rickles Thelma Ritter Joan Rivers Ray Romano Maxie Rosenbloom Adam Sandler Michael Savage Bernie Sanders Vin Scully Phil Silvers Al Smith Sebastian Stan Arnold Stang Barbara Stanwyck Howard Stern Barbra Streisand Marisa Tomei John Travolta Donald Trump Christopher Walken Eli Wallach Denzel Washington Barry Wellman Mae West Lenny Wilkens Janet Yellen Fictional characters Many fictional characters in popular films and television shows have used New York City English, whether or not the actors portraying them are native speakers of the dialect. Some examples are listed below. The Bowery Boys Archie and Edith Bunker Bugs Bunny The Honeymooners cast Terry Malloy Meowth from Pokémon Mob Wives cast Rhoda Morgenstern The Sopranos cast Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza from Seinfeld The Three Stooges Geographic boundaries This accent is not spoken in the rest of New York State beyond the immediate New York City metropolitan area. Specifically, the upper Hudson Valley mixes New York City and Western New England accent features, while Central and Western New York belongs to the same dialect region as Great Lakes cities such as Chicago and Detroit, known as the Inland North. New York State New York City English is confined to a geographically small but densely populated area, including all five boroughs of New York City, as well as many speakers on Long Island: generally in Nassau County and somewhat in Suffolk County. Moreover, the English of the Hudson Valley forms a continuum of speakers who gather more features of New York City English the closer they are to the city itself; some of the dialect's features may be heard as far north as the state capital of Albany. A small portion of Connecticut speaks similar, primarily speakers in Fairfield County and as far as New Haven County. New Jersey The northeast quarter of New Jersey, prominently Bergen, Hudson, and Essex counties, including the cities Weehawken, Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne, and Newark, plus Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, are all within the New York City metropolitan area and thus also home to the major features