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Apalachin (/ˈæpəˈleɪkɪn/ AP-ə-LAY-kin) is a census-designated place within the Town of Owego in Tioga County, New York, United States. The population was 1,131 in the 2010 census. The CDP is named after Apalachin Creek.

Apalachin is in the southeastern section of the Town of Owego and is west of Binghamton. It is also part of the Binghamton Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Apalachin CDP overview:
Name:	Apalachin CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	New York
County:	Tioga County
Elevation:	843 ft (257 m)
Total Area:	2.88 sq mi (7.45 km²)
Land Area:	2.88 sq mi (7.45 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	2,632
Population Density:	915.16/sq mi (353.37/km²)
ZIP code:	13732
Area code:	607
FIPS code:	3602308
GNISfeature ID:	0942517

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History

The first settler arrived c. 1786, but the community was not founded until 1836.

On November 14, 1957, the heads of the American Mafia held the Apalachin Meeting at the home of Joseph Barbara, an Apalachin resident. The meeting was a conference of mobsters who had gathered to iron out various issues in the underworld. The gathering was quickly broken up when a curious New York State Trooper turned up and spotted expensive cars at or near the home. Other police officers quickly arrived to arrest those attending the conference and sent some of the most powerful gangsters in the country fleeing through the surrounding countryside. Mafiosi and the FBI sometimes just refer to the meeting as Apalachin. This meeting was humorously portrayed in the opening sequence of the 1999 motion picture Analyze This, which starred Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal. This meeting was also fully depicted in the 1972 film The Valachi Papers as well as the 2019 film Mob Town.

Apalachin was host to the annual Apalachin Firemen’s Field Days, which was a four-day carnival, generally held in the first week of June until it was cancelled in 2016. This event was started in 1960 and had grown from a small event in a field to having a permanent location with large pavilions (still called the beer and food tents by locals) and a large square of game booths that surround 15-20 carnival rides. Events included the Little Miss Apalachin contest, fireworks and a large parade.

Riverside Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.