New York Online Voting Contests

Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week

Buffalo · Buffalo News / Prep Talk

The Buffalo News Prep Talk fan vote for the best female high school athletic performance of the week in Western New York. Coaches nominate by Sunday, readers vote on the Buffalo News site through Thursday at noon, and the weekly winner feeds into an annual Girls Athlete of the Year recognition.

Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week

White Plains · lohud / The Journal News

The lohud / Journal News reader fan vote for the best Hudson Valley prep football performance of the week. Nominees span Westchester and Rockland counties; the ballot opens Monday and closes Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. ET — two days faster than the statewide SI poll that some of the same schools also appear on.

lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week

White Plains · lohud / The Journal News

The Journal News / lohud reader poll for the best Section 1 boys basketball performance of the week — Westchester and Rockland counties. Polls open Monday, close Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET, and the winner is announced on lohud sports social media. Sponsored by White Plains Hospital.

Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week

White Plains · lohud / The Journal News

The Journal News / lohud fan vote for the best girls basketball performance in Section 1 — Westchester and Rockland counties, New York. Sponsored by White Plains Hospital, votes are unlimited, and the ballot closes Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. ET — a mid-week hard stop unlike any of the Sunday-night SI polls.

New York High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide New York · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly statewide fan poll published by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/new-york, recognising standout NYSPHSAA athletes across all eleven sections and all classification levels. Free to vote, no account required, closes Friday 11:59 p.m. PT each week.

New York High School Football Player of the Week

The statewide High School on SI / SBLive fan vote for the best New York prep football performance of the week. Editors choose nominees from all eleven NYSPHSAA sections and CHSFL Catholic programs; anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. — a day before the Dallas regional equivalent.

New York High School Player of the Year

Statewide New York · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Season-end annual fan-vote awards run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/new-york; separate sport-specific polls — statewide football, Long Island positional awards, baseball, basketball — with no per-vote cap. Open statewide across all eleven NYSPHSAA sections plus CHSFL and CHSAA private-school conferences.

New York High School Softball Player of the Year

Statewide New York · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group, formerly SBLive Sports)

Annual end-of-season fan-vote awards for girls high school softball, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/new-york — covering all eleven NYSPHSAA sections and CHSAA statewide New York, with separate positional and class-level polls and no per-vote cap. Updated June 2026.

New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week

White Plains · Lohud / The Journal News

The lohud / Journal News reader vote for the top prep football performer in Westchester and Rockland counties. Editors pick nominees from Section 1 and CHSFL programs; anyone votes for free — and the ballot closes Wednesday at 3 p.m., three days earlier than most people expect.

Rochester / Section V High School Football Player of the Week

Rochester · Rochester Democrat and Chronicle / Faber Builders

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle's weekly fan vote for the best Section V football performance, presented by Faber Builders. Sports reporters pick the nominees from that weekend's games; anyone can vote — no account needed — until Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern, when the ballot closes and the winner is announced Thursday morning on @dandcsports.

Western New York High School Football Player of the Week

Buffalo · Buffalo News / Prep Talk

The Buffalo News Prep Talk Boys Athlete of the Week is a public fan vote at buffalonews.com, sponsored by Sgroi Financial. During fall, football nominees share the ballot with soccer and cross-country athletes. Anyone can vote with no account; the poll closes at noon Thursday — a Thursday cutoff you will not find on any other weekly regional football poll in New York.

WETM MyTwinTiers Athlete of the Week (Twin Tiers)

A TV sports desk, three counties, one poll a week: WETM-TV 18's MyTwinTiers.com ballot at mytwintiers.com/sports, presented by Simmons-Rockwell Nissan, confirmed live through the 2024 and 2025 school years.

WWNY Athlete of the Week

The weekly multi-sport Athlete of the Week fan vote from WWNY-TV 7 (Nexstar), covering high school athletes across Jefferson, St. Lawrence, and Lewis counties in New York's Watertown / North Country market, hosted on a standing page rather than a new post each week.

1st Annual Calendar Photo Contest

Brooklyn Paws Foundation runs the 1st Annual Calendar Photo Contest, a fundraiser where pet owners collect donation votes for their animals. Each vote is a $1.00 donation cast on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot. The confirmed 2023 window ran from July 1 through August 31, 2023, and a further edition is listed for 2024. The ballot page shows the contest has ended, so anyone planning an entry should check the organizer's site for the next cycle.

2026 Best of the Lake Region

NYVT Media, a community newspaper publisher based in Granville, New York, runs the 2026 Best of the Lake Region, a readers' choice ballot hosted on Second Street. The live ballot runs from September 1 to November 9, 2026, and the 2025 edition ran from November 24, 2025 to February 1, 2026. The ballot combines nomination and voting in one form. Category details and any per-supporter limits go unlisted until the form opens, so readers should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

AGR Boys Athlete of the Year Presented by Faber Builders

AGR runs the Boys Athlete of the Year ballot presented by Faber Builders for New York high school sports readers. The vote runs through Crowdsignal's poll.fm ballot, and AGR's own story stated the current poll stays open until 8 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2026. Confirmed editions ran in 2023 and 2025, and the program qualifies as annual on the strength of those two years.

Best Bagel Hudson Valley Poll

WPDA, a New York radio station, runs the Best Bagel Hudson Valley Poll as the bagel round of its Boris & Robyn Battle of the Best. The 2019 ballot went live in January 2019 and printed a simple rule: one vote per day per IP address through Friday, Feb. 1. Confirmed editions exist for 2019 and 2026, and wpdh.com serves the ballot from the station's own domain.

Best Burger Hudson Valley

Best Burger Hudson Valley is a public-vote food showdown run by the New York radio station WPDA on its own site at wpdh.com. The 2019 page carried the title Battle of the Best 2019: Best Burger, and confirmed editions ran in 2019, 2024 and 2026. Nominations fall between March and May, and the exact round dates are not printed ahead of each cycle.

Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards

The Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards is a fan-voted album ballot run by WHWK, the country station behind 981thehawk.com, and open to listeners across New York State. Confirmed editions ran in 2018 and 2019, and the 2018 ballot closed on Sunday, December 16 at 11:59 PM ET. The station publishes the vote on its own website and has posted no rules or next-round date, so supporters checking this year's setup need to read the live entry.

Best Holiday Pie Poll

Every December, radio station WLZW turns its lite987.com website over to pie. The Best Holiday Pie Poll asks listeners across New York to type in the holiday pie they think is the absolute best and then return to vote again as often as they wish each day. The station counts the write-in answers and posts the results, as it did on Wednesday, December 19 for the 2018 edition. Confirmed runs span 2018 through 2025.

Best of 2019: Staff Picks

WFUV, the New York music discovery station, runs the Best of 2019: Staff Picks ballot on its own wfuv.org website. FUV DJs and staff narrow down choice albums and songs of 2019, and listeners add their own picks through a Listener Poll that closed December 13, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. EST. The Best of format shows confirmed edition years from 2000 through 2026, with some intervening years absent from the list. Category details and vote rules sit outside the published page text, so the current ballot page governs.

Best of Brooklyn

Brooklyn · Schneps Media / Brooklyn Paper

Annual Schneps Media readers-choice awards for Brooklyn businesses, with nominations, a finalist ballot, and public daily voting by email and category.

Best of Camp New York Awards

The Best of Camp New York Awards is a public-vote program run by the Campground Owners of New York on the association's own website. Campers across New York nominate independent campgrounds in July and vote for favorites from August 7 through September 7 in the 2026 cycle. The program debuted in 2025 and returned in 2026. The full category list and the rules for supporters are not printed ahead of the window.

Best of Greene County 2025

Best of Greene County 2025 is the readers' choice ballot the Daily Gazette runs for Greene County, New York, from its Schenectady newsroom. Voting happened on Second Street at dailygazette.secondstreetapp.com between December 15, 2024 and February 24, 2025, and the promotion is now closed. Editions are confirmed for 2023, 2024 and 2025. The category list and any per-supporter rule are not printed with the listing.

Best of Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley Magazine's annual readers-choice ballot spanning Dutchess, Ulster, Putnam, Orange, and Rockland counties, covering Food/Drink, Nightlife, Beauty/Health, Shopping, Arts/Culture, and Fun/Leisure categories through a nomination-then-final-ballot structure.

Best of Queens

Queens · Schneps Media / QNS

A Queens readers-choice awards program from Schneps Media / QNS with daily public voting across hundreds of local business categories.

Best of Rochester

CITY Magazine publishes Best of Rochester, an annual readers' poll for Rochester, New York, balloted on the magazine's own roccitymag.com domain. The primary ballot stays open until Nov. 24 at midnight, and the final round runs from December 4 until December 15 at midnight. The confirmed edition years are 2023, 2024 and 2025. The page prints no nomination date and no eligibility terms, so a supporter should read the current ballot before planning a push.

Best of the Bronx

Bronx · Schneps Media / Bronx Times

Annual reader-choice awards programme run by Schneps Media through the Bronx Times, recognising the top local businesses and services across roughly 60 categories. Nominations open in January, public voting runs mid-April through late August with one vote per email per category per day, and winners are announced in mid-December.

Best of the Capital Region

The Albany Times Union runs Best of the Capital Region at timesunion.com/best, an online ballot spanning roughly 100 categories across Albany, Schenectady, Troy, and Saratoga. Vote caps and this cycle's exact close date should be confirmed on the live page, since neither is published beyond it.

Best of Twin Tiers Community's Choice Awards

The Elmira Star-Gazette, a Gannett paper, runs Best of Twin Tiers Community's Choice Awards at yourchoiceawards.com/twintiers, covering the Elmira / Southern Tier region straddling the New York-Pennsylvania line. Category detail and this cycle's close date aren't published beyond that page.

Best of Westchester

Westchester Magazine's annual reader-choice ballot, run by Moffly Media, spanning Kids/Pets, Home/Garden, Beauty/Wellness, Wedding, Shopping, and Food/Drink categories across the county, with a nomination round narrowing to finalists before public voting closes in March.

Bestof2011staff

WFUV, a New York public radio station, runs Bestof2011staff as a public-vote best-of program on its own site at wfuv.org/bestof2011staff. 25 editions are confirmed, from 2000 through 2026, with 2020 and 2023 absent from that run. The 2011 installment carried the page title Best of 2011: Staff Picks, bylined December 4, 2011. Exact window dates and category details are not printed by the organizer.

Bethpage Best of Long Island

Long Island · FourLeaf Federal Credit Union / Schneps Media

Annual Long Island readers-choice awards run by FourLeaf Federal Credit Union with Schneps Media, covering about 14 macro-categories and hundreds of subcategories after nominations and public voting.

Binghamton Community's Choice Awards

The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, a Gannett paper, runs Binghamton Community's Choice Awards at yourchoiceawards.com/binghamton, an online ballot covering the Southern Tier. Category detail, vote caps, and this cycle's close date aren't published beyond that page.

Buffalo CARES Animal Rescue Buffalo CARES 2023 Calendar Contest

The Buffalo CARES 2023 Calendar Contest gathers pet photos for Buffalocares, the organizer behind the Kenmore, New York rescue, with the ballot served by GoGo Photo Contest. The confirmed 2022 voting window ran through September and closed at 8:00 PM Eastern on Friday, September 30, 2022, and the twelve top photos earned places in the 2023 fundraising calendar. A 2023 edition is also confirmed. Entry categories, any per-person vote limit and the next edition year are not published by the organizer.

Chronogram Magazine Readers' Choice

Chronogram Magazine's Hudson Valley and Catskills readers-choice program, built on a nomination-then-vote structure at chronogram.com/readerschoice, distinct from Hudson Valley Magazine's separate five-county ballot in the same general region.

CommunityVotes Albany

Unlike Best of Brooklyn's single-borough ballot, CommunityVotes Albany runs its own capital-region readers'-choice program, organized through a local Albany partner at albany.communityvotes.com. Four editions back it so far, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025, and the page's own 2026 Nomination Period is open now, running August 2 through November 29. Past that window, no category roster or per-voter rule is printed yet; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

CommunityVotes New Rochelle

New Rochelle · CommunityVotes New Rochelle

Two editions, 2025 and 2026, are the entire confirmed history behind CommunityVotes New Rochelle, the CommunityVotes network's business poll for New Rochelle, New York, in Westchester County. The live 2026 page at newrochelle.communityvotes.com puts the nomination window at July 16 through November 8. Nothing else about the ballot is published; confirm it on the live site each cycle.

CommunityVotes Rochester, New York

CommunityVotes Rochester, New York is a community-voting business awards program run by a local CommunityVotes affiliate at rochesterny.communityvotes.com. Three editions are confirmed for the market, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the current nomination stage runs July 16 through November 8. A category roster, a per-voter limit, and any separate voting-stage schedule are not published past that window; each depends on whatever the live ballot states once nominating closes.

CommunityVotes Syracuse

CommunityVotes Syracuse is Metroland Media's readers-choice business awards program for the Greater Syracuse area, run through nomination and voting rounds at syracuse.communityvotes.com rather than the parent company's general communityvotes.com site. The 2025 and 2026 cycles are both confirmed active; no vote totals, category list, or fixed calendar are published.

CommunityVotes Utica

Metroland Media's annual CommunityVotes readers-choice awards for Utica and the Mohawk Valley, run through open nomination followed by public voting at utica.communityvotes.com. The 2025 cycle is confirmed; 2026 is expected but not yet live, and no category count or vote cap is published anywhere in the record.

CommunityVotes Yonkers

Yonkers · CommunityVotes Yonkers

Westchester County's largest city gets its own CommunityVotes page: CommunityVotes Yonkers, a readers' choice business poll for Yonkers, New York, run at yonkers.communityvotes.com, where 2026 nominations opened July 16 and stay open through November 8, with two confirmed editions, 2024 and 2026, behind it. Beyond that window, the site doesn't publish a category list, and it doesn't publish a vote cap either; check the live site directly for both.

Daily Gazette Best of Greene County

Schenectady · Daily Gazette

Greene County, New York's Best of Greene County ballot runs through the Daily Gazette, the Schenectady-based newspaper. Voting happens at dailygazette.secondstreetapp.com through Second Street. 3 confirmed ballot years back the program: 2023, 2024 and 2025, with the most recent round opening December 15, 2024 and closing February 24, 2025. Past that window, exactly which award categories exist and how often a supporter may return both stay unwritten, so a Greene County business should confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than assume.

Daily Gazette Best of the Best

Schenectady, New York's Daily Gazette runs Daily Gazette Best of the Best on dailygazette.secondstreetapp.com through the paper's own Second Street ballot. Four editions are confirmed, 2022 through 2025, the most recent nomination-and-voting window opening July 13 and closing September 15, 2025. Once that window closes, Daily Gazette's live page is what actually sets the next category list, any vote cap, or the following year's dates, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Gazette Best of the Best 2025

The Daily Gazette Best of the Best 2025 is the Schenectady readers-choice contest run by The Daily Gazette, the family-owned daily newspaper published in Schenectady, New York. Voting ran on Second Street from July 13 to September 15, 2025 through a combined nomination-and-voting ballot. Editions are confirmed for 2022 through 2025, and a 2026 edition runs on the same host, though the category lineup and any per-supporter rule have not been printed.

Daily Gazette Nurse of the Year

Schenectady · Daily Gazette

Daily Gazette's Nurse of the Year 2026 combines nomination and voting into a single ballot, run April 26 through June 1, 2026, at dailygazette.secondstreetapp.com. Daily Gazette is a Schenectady, New York newspaper, and the program is its nurse-recognition ballot for that market. Four editions are confirmed, 2019, then 2024, 2025 and 2026, with no edition published in the years between. Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Daily Gazette Reader's Choice

Schenectady, New York's Daily Gazette runs Reader's Choice on dailygazette.secondstreetapp.com through its own Second Street market. Rather than a combined nominate-and-vote listing, the platform lists this promotion as a voting-only ballot. Two editions are confirmed, 2024 and 2025, the most recent window running September 13 through October 6, 2025. Past that window, Daily Gazette's live page is what actually sets the next category list, any vote cap, or the following year's dates, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Dan's Best of the Best: North Fork

North Fork · Dan's Hamptons Media (Dan's Papers)

Annual Dan's Papers readers-choice awards for North Fork businesses across Riverhead, Southold, and Greenport, voted separately from the South Fork ballot at dansbotb.com/north-fork-voting/.

Dan's Best of the Best: South Fork (Hamptons)

South Fork (Hamptons) · Dan's Hamptons Media (Dan's Papers)

Annual Dan's Papers readers-choice awards for South Fork / Hamptons businesses, with 400+ categories and a public summer ballot at dansbotb.com.

For Best Saranac Soda

The For Best Saranac Soda poll is a listener vote run by the New York radio station WLZW on its own site. Fans pick the all-time best Saranac Soda flavor and see whether the rest of CNY agrees. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and in the September cycle the page shows, results went up on Friday, September 14th.

For One Of Five Buffalo Businesses To Receive A 2500 Grant

WBLK, a Buffalo radio station, invites the public to vote for one of five local businesses to receive a 2500 dollar grant. The vote runs on wblk.com, the station's own domain, and the page text points voters to BuyLocalBuffaloNY.com. Confirmed editions run from 2020 through 2026, and the ballot has repeatedly been framed around minority-owned companies in the City of Buffalo.

For The Best Dad To Win Our Pops Party Pack For Fathers Day

Power 93.7 WBLK invites its New York audience to vote for the best dad and hand him a Pop's Party Pack for Father's Day. The vote is hosted on wblk.com, the station's own web address, and its printed copy sets voting open through Saturday, June 20 at 5 pm, with the winning dad announced on Father's Day, June 21. Confirmed runs cover 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the printed rule allows one vote per hour.

For The Father Mows Best Contest

WYRK, the Buffalo country station branded as Buffalo Country Radio - 106.5 WYRK, invites listeners to pick which dad deserves a new lawnmower in its Father Mows Best Contest. The ballot sits directly on wyrk.com, and the printed cycle closed on Thursday, June 15th. Editions have surfaced in 2018, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, so the contest behaves like a recurring Father's Day fixture rather than a one-off promotion.

For The Flyest Mask In Buffalo Gallery

Buffalo listeners decide which face covering in the station's gallery earns the title of flyest mask. 93.7 WBLK, the urban radio station branded as The People's Station, put the reader-submitted mask photos up on its own website and let the audience pick a winner by poll. The ballot has appeared across 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. In the 2020 cycle, selfie entries closed Sunday, September 20th by 8 pm and voting ran through Sunday, September 27th at 8 pm, with supporters able to vote once per hour.

For The New York State Fair Sand Sculpture (lite987)

WLZW invites listeners to choose the subject of the sand sculpture at the New York State Fair. The confirmed 2019 ballot closed on August 5th and offered twenty finalist subjects, among them Where's Waldo, NYS Edition and a Sesame Street 50th Anniversary tribute. The vote runs on lite987.com, the station's own site, and later editions are known for 2020, 2022 and 2025. The station prints no standing window dates; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For These Cellino Plumbing Heating Coolings Wny Non Profit Of The Month

WYRK, a Buffalo radio station, runs For These Cellino Plumbing Heating Coolings Wny Non Profit Of The Month together with Cellino Plumbing Heating & Cooling. Each month one Western New York non-profit receives $500. Nominations carry an August 14 deadline in the current cycle, and the month itself is broken down into 3 segments. The program has run in 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026, so it behaves as an annual fixture on wyrk.com. Anything the station has not printed, such as exact segment dates or a rule on repeat voting, belongs to the live ballot page rather than to any summary.

For This Hudson Valley Firefighters As Sexiest Vegan

WKXP, the country station behind hudsonvalleycountry.com, ran a pointed appeal asking its Hudson Valley, New York listeners to vote for a local firefighter up for PETA's Sexiest Vegan Next Door award. The ballot is not a broad readers survey with many categories. It is a narrow push for a single nominee, with voting routed through PETA.org. The printed 2019 window ran from April 23 through May 17.

For Your Favorite Halloween Decoration With The B Devils

Unlike the citywide readers'-choice ballots WHWK's state also hosts, this program is a single-topic seasonal vote. The B-Devils gathered the best 25 Halloween decorating entries and handed the final call to the public at 981thehawk.com, the radio home of WHWK. The page text states that voting ends on Friday, October 30th, and the program has run in six of the last seven years.

For Your Favorite Oneonta Snowman

WZOZ, a radio station serving Oneonta in New York, runs For Your Favorite Oneonta Snowman, a public vote in which local businesses decorate snowmen and listeners choose a favorite. Five editions have run, two in 2018 and 2019 and three straight winters from 2024, housed at wzozfm.com. One cycle noted that voting ended on a Thursday with winners announced Friday, December 15.

For Your Favorite Restaurants For 5 Cities In 5 Days

WKXP, the Hudson Valley country station behind hudsonvalleycountry.com, runs a public vote that picks where its morning hosts CJ and Jess will have breakfast across five cities in five days. The vote is hosted directly on hudsonvalleycountry.com, with no outside balloting service in between. Editions are confirmed for 2019 through 2021, then 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, and a September cycle is on file with a close at 11:59 pm on Sunday, September 29. Unlike the Best of Queens and Best of Brooklyn ballots in the same state, this one crowns a single breakfast destination per stop instead of a full readers-choice directory.

Happy Life Animal Rescue Calendar Photo Contest

Happy Life Animal Rescue, an animal rescue based in Pawling, New York, runs a calendar photo contest whose ballot sits on GoGo Photo Contest. The 2025 voting window ran August 1 to August 31, 2025, opening 9:00 AM and closing 9:00 PM Eastern Time. A 2026 pet calendar contest was announced in partnership with Cherry Willow Photography, and proceeds from voting and calendar sales assist the rescue.

Here Last Chance To In Boilermaker Anthem Singer Contest

WIBX runs the Boilermaker Anthem Singer Contest as a public vote on its own site each June, timed to Boilermaker week in the Utica area. The page excerpt confirms voting in the Post Race Party Anthem Singer Contest closes on June 5th at 11:59 p.m. The station has posted the ballot in each of the five years from 2022 to 2026. The radio station has not printed a rules page naming the nominees, the per-person vote limit or the prize, so those details should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.

I Love My Muddy Mutt 2026 Calendar Contest

Muddy Paws Rescue runs the I Love My Muddy Mutt 2026 Calendar Contest as a public photo vote on GoGo Photo Contest, headquartered in New York, NY. The ballot for the 2026 calendar closed at midnight Eastern Time on Monday, September 8, 2025, and the rescue has hosted editions across 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Entering costs 35 dollars and bundles 35 votes plus a printed calendar.

In Of Best Country Party Songs

WFRG-FM runs In Of Best Country Party Songs as a bracket on the station's own website in Utica, New York. The round this page covers is Round 2, where the field has been narrowed to eight songs, and the station told supporters voting stays open until Wednesday, March 29. The station also told supporters to feel free to vote as many times as they like. Confirmed editions run across 2022 through 2026. Nomination dates, bracket schedules beyond this round and any eligibility wording are not printed with the ballot.

Listen Up Awards

The Listen Up Awards is a peoples choice music award program celebrating Capital Region talent in New York. Mirth Films and Radio Radio X created the ceremony in 2021, and supporters nominate and vote on the organizer's own site. The 2025 ceremony returned to The Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes on March 23rd at 3pm, and the 2026 nomination process has begun. Voting wraps up on February 28th at 11:59 pm.

Long Island Choice Awards

The Long Island Choice Awards is a public-vote business awards program for Long Island, New York, run by RichnerLive / Herald Long Island. Confirmed editions span 2025 and 2026, and the page traces the program back to 2022. Nominations for the 2026 edition open in September. The ballot spans a wide roster of local business categories, and winners are announced at an annual gala presented by PSEG Long Island.

Mohawk Hudson Humane Society Happy T’ales Beer Label Contest

The Happy T’ales Beer Label Contest lets pet owners in the Menands, New York area put their dog or cat on a real beer label. Votes cost one dollar each with a five-vote minimum, and GoGo Photo Contest hosts the ballot. The 2026 window opened August 12 and closes September 2 at 9:00 PM Eastern. Four winning pets each front a limited-edition label on Brown's Best Friends Lager, and the labels surface as a collectible 4-pack at Oktopurrfest. The contest has run in most years since 2018.

Mohawk Hudson Humane Society Happy Tales Beer Label Contest

Menands · Mohawk Hudson Humane Society

Mohawk Hudson Humane Society runs the Happy T'ales Beer Label Contest for shelter pets in Menands, New York, at gogophotocontest.com/mohawkhumane. Four winning pets appear on a limited-edition Best Friends Lager label from Brown's Brewing Company. Entries were due by 9:00 PM Eastern on September 2, 2026. Eight contest years are confirmed, 2018 through 2026. Beyond that, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

National Pyr Rescue's 2026 Happy Endings Calendar Cover Contest

National Great Pyrenees Rescue, Inc. invites its supporters across New York to vote in the 2026 Happy Endings Calendar Cover Contest, a fundraiser running on GoGo Photo Contest. The public ballot decides which rescued Pyr's photo lands on the calendar cover. The 2025 window ran June 20 through July 31, and each dollar donated counted as one vote, starting at a $5 minimum.

Now Final Day To For Greater Utica Peoples Choice Award

WIBX runs the Greater Utica People's Choice Awards as a public food ballot for Utica, New York, tied to the Keeler Show. Confirmed editions run from 2019 through 2026, missing only 2021. The current cycle's page states voting is open until Thursday morning, with results read on air. This page collects what the station publishes about the ballot and what it leaves unstated.

Now For The Lite Listener Choice Awards

The Lite Listener Choice Awards is a listener-decided best-of award ballot run by WLZW, the Central New York radio station broadcasting as Lite 98.7, on its own website. Listeners decide the winners across food, drink and entertainment prompts. Six confirmed editions have appeared, running from 2021 through 2026 without a gap, and the ballot page has noted voting that continues until Thursday, February 11th during its live cycle.

Now For Your Favorite Jazzy T Big 4 4 Intro Video Poll

WBLK invites its New York listeners to vote for their favorite intro video in the Jazzy T Big 4 @ 4 feature through a public poll published on wblk.com, the station's own domain. The voting window falls in March, and confirmed editions of the poll stretch from 2018 through 2026. Day-level open and close dates, plus any per-supporter voting rule, are things the station leaves off the page.

Nurse of the Year 2026

Nurse of the Year 2026 is a public ballot run by the Daily Gazette, the family-owned newspaper published in Schenectady, New York. The 2026 ballot opened April 26 and closed June 1, 2026, hosted on Second Street. Earlier editions ran in 2019, 2024 and 2025. Category detail and any per-supporter rule are not printed by the organizer.

NYC Podcast Awards

The NYC Podcast Awards, branded The LIBBY Awards by Silver Sound's SILVER team in Manhattan, is a public-vote award for audio creators. Its ballot is deliberately audio-only and rules out video, ads and AI entirely. The confirmed cycle's audience vote opens February 4, 2027, the same day nominees are announced.

NYVT Media Best of Washington County

NYVT Media, a community newspaper publisher across Washington County, New York, runs its Washington County ballot at nyvtmedia.secondstreetapp.com, presented locally by Telescope Furniture. Granville anchors the coverage area named in NYVT Media's own listing. Five confirmed editions back the ballot, 2021 through 2025, with the most recent window running November 24, 2025 through February 1, 2026, now closed. Unlike the large media-market best-of polls covering Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan, this one answers to a small county newspaper group instead. The ballot page lists no category roster and no per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Oneonta Properties of Merit

Oneonta · WDLA / CNY News

Oneonta Properties of Merit is the Future of Oneonta Foundation's recognition contest for notable properties in Oneonta, New York, with the public vote hosted at cnynews.com by WDLA, the local Central New York radio station. Archived editions of the ballot page confirm the program ran in 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with voting each September. Exact current-cycle dates and the category list: confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Politics Poll Mamdani Beats Adams Cuomo Independent

Unlike <a href="/usa/new-york/best-of-new-york-city/">The City's Best - Best of New York City</a>, this ballot is a newsroom opinion poll rather than a reader awards ballot. AM New York runs the Politics Poll Mamdani Beats Adams Cuomo Independent on its own site, amny.com, for readers following the New York City mayor's race. The poll's November 2025 cycle reported Mamdani ahead of Adams if Cuomo sits out, and editions are also confirmed in 2021.

Post-Star Readers' Choice Ballot

The Post-Star's annual Readers' Choice Ballot for Glens Falls and North Country New York, run as one combined online ballot confirmed live at poststar.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2026/ rather than separate per-business vote pages, with no public category list, vote cap, or close date published anywhere yet for the current cycle.

Reader Rankings (Rochester Business Journal)

Rochester · Rochester Business Journal

Rochester Business Journal's annual Reader Rankings, a business-to-business readers-choice program for the Greater Rochester, New York business community, with online voting May 4-29, 2026, top-3 results announced in June, and a recognition event in July.

Reader's Choice 2025

Reader's Choice 2025 is the best-of ballot The Daily Gazette runs for Schenectady, New York readers. Voting happened on Second Street at dailygazette.secondstreetapp.com between September 13 and October 6, 2025. That window has closed. Earlier editions ran in 2024 and the newspaper is expected to bring the ballot back in 2026. Businesses hoping to appear on the next edition should watch the Gazette's ballot pages, because the newspaper has not printed the category roster or its voting rules in advance.

Rochester Area Builders Parade of Homes

Rochester Area Builders runs an online people's-choice vote for its Parade of Homes at rochesterareabuilders.com/parade-of-homes/, covering the Rochester, New York metro. It is unrelated to Rochester Community's Choice Awards or Reader Rankings, two separate business ballots that share the city name but not the builders association or its home tour.

Rochester Community's Choice Awards

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle's Greater Rochester readers-choice program, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/rochester/, spanning more than 140 business categories through a nomination stage and voting rounds.

Section v Boys AGR Player of the Year

AGR runs the Section V Boys AGR Player of the Year ballot, a public vote for boys high school athletes across Section V, New York. Crowdsignal hosts the form at poll.fm. Editions ran in 2025 and once more in 2026, with the 2025-26 vote shutting at 8 p.m. on August 2, 2026. AGR prints no opening date, no eligibility text and no repeat-vote limit, so supporters and nominees should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Tag Readers Choice Awards

Chronogram Magazine publishes the Tag Readers Choice Awards, a best-of ballot open to readers across the Hudson Valley and Catskills in New York. The cycle opens with a nomination round from January 1 through February 15, moves into public voting from April 1 through May 15, and lands winners on the magazine's archives in July. The 2025 and 2026 editions are both confirmed, and the publisher says the series began in 2020. Everything runs on chronogram.com, under the publisher's own domain.

The AGR Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year

The AGR Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year lets New York high school supporters choose the sport's top player in a fan vote carried on the Crowdsignal polling platform at poll.fm under the AGR banner. Confirmed editions cover 2023 and 2025, and the 2025 ballot voted through an April window before closing. The live ballot at poll.fm/15412677 is where supporters vote, and the organizer leaves window dates, nominee rosters and any per-supporter rule off the published page.

The All-CNY Boys Winter Volleyball Player of the Year

All-CNY asks New York high school sports readers to choose its boys winter volleyball player of the year on a Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm/15370564. The 2024-25 vote ran from December through February. Confirmed editions cover 2022, 2024 and 2025, casting is free, and the volleyball page shows no sign-in step.

The City's Best — Best of New York City

Manhattan · Schneps Media (The Villager, Gay City News, Downtown Express)

Annual reader-choice awards for Manhattan businesses and services, run by Schneps Media through publications including The Villager, Gay City News, and Downtown Express. Nominations run January through late March, voting opens May 19 and closes August 21, with one vote per person per category per day; winners are published in a special guide.

The Post-Standard Syracuse.com High School Football Game of the Week MVP

After each featured matchup, The Post-Standard turns to its Syracuse readers to name the MVP of that week's high school football game. Crowdsignal carries the balloting at poll.fm, with forms live from September through November. Seasons on file are 2023 and 2025. The form shows nominees and a pick button, nothing else about rules, so read the live poll before rallying support for a player.

The Post-Standard Syracuse.com High School Winter Sports Game of the Week MVP

Two confirmed editions of this high school winter sports MVP vote exist, in 2023 and 2025. The Post-Standard, the Syracuse newspaper behind syracuse.com, runs the ballot on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Voting covers the December to February winter season, and readers pick the Game of the Week MVP from a published shortlist of weekly nominees.

The Poughkeepsie Journal Athlete of the Week

The Poughkeepsie Journal publishes a weekly high school sports poll that lets readers decide which athlete earns the paper's weekly recognition. Crowdsignal at poll.fm carries the ballots; confirmed seasons run 2022, 2023 and 2024, with voting active during an October to May calendar. The most recent ballot listed in the series closed on May 3, 2026, covering the April 27 to May 3 week. Coaches supply nominations, and the public supplies every deciding click.

The Rockland Journal News Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year, Presented by White Plains Hospital

The Rockland Journal News Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year, Presented by White Plains Hospital, is a public-vote high school award decided by readers on a Crowdsignal (poll.fm) ballot. The Rockland Journal News runs it for the Rockland, New York community. Its confirmed seasons are 2023 and 2025, both voting in June, and the most recent ballot drew nominees from Tappan Zee, Suffern, Pearl River and Nyack.

Times Herald-Record Varsity Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Each week through the boys basketball season the New York newspaper Times Herald-Record opens a Crowdsignal poll at poll.fm under its Varsity 845 brand, asking readers to choose that week's standout varsity player. Ballots pair every nominee with a school community. Confirmed editions ran in 2022, 2023 and 2024, with the voting phase falling in January and February each season.

Times Union Athlete of the Week

Run by the Times Union sports staff, the Athlete of the Week ballot honors Capital Region high school boys' sports across New York each school year. Five nominated athletes from the previous week of competition go before the paper's readers, and a June 2026 cycle named its winner during the week of June 15, 2026. The years 2025 and 2026 stand as the program's confirmed edition years.

Vote Citi Field

Vote Citi Field is the New York Mets' fan campaign on the team's own mlb.com page, built around Citi Field's USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice nomination for Best Baseball Stadium Food. Citi Field took the stadium food title in 2023, 2024 and 2025 and is a 2026 nominee again. The current voting window closes March 16 at 11:59 a.m. EST. The page prints no open date and no per-supporter voting rule, so those details need a fresh look at the ballot itself.

Vote for Mohawk Valley Athlete of the Week

Mohawk Valley readers decide a weekly Athlete of the Week in this New York public vote, which runs on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Coaches and athletic directors supply the nominees, and readers pick the winner. Confirmed editions run across 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, and the winter 2025-26 ballot closed at noon on Friday, March 13.

Vote for the Poughkeepsie Journal boys athlete of the week

Each week the Poughkeepsie Journal opens a boys athlete of the week poll for high school sports around Poughkeepsie, New York. Every edition carries a nomination stretch, most recently April 27-May 3, followed by voting that closes at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night. Crowdsignal serves the ballot at poll.fm, and the published poll for June 8-14 has closed. Editions are confirmed for 2022, 2025 and 2026.

Vote for the Poughkeepsie Journal girls athlete of the week

Each week the Poughkeepsie Journal asks readers in Poughkeepsie, New York to pick a girls athlete of the week from its high school coverage, using a Crowdsignal ballot on poll.fm. A confirmed June 8-14 poll shut with its frontrunner on 70 percent of 826 votes. The Journal permits a single vote per person per day, and coaches feed the weekly nominee list.

Vote for the Poughkeepsie Journal girls soccer player of week

The Poughkeepsie Journal runs a weekly public vote for girls soccer player of the week in Poughkeepsie, New York. Ballots sit on the Crowdsignal platform at poll.fm, and the most recent confirmed ballot covered Sept. 29-Oct. 5 before closing. The publisher has run the programme in past seasons, with seasons on file for 2023 and 2025, and voting activity in this market falls in September and October.

Vote: New York Boys Indoor Track Performer of the Week

This page is about a boys indoor track ballot, not a publisher contest. New York Boys Indoor posts a weekly performer poll via the poll.fm polling service, and the edition now confirmed covered Mar. 9-15 of the 2026 indoor season and has closed. Confirmed seasons run 2023 and 2026. The ballot is free to vote, statewide in reach, and names high school boys track performers from around New York.

Vote: Who is the Long Island High School Defensive Lineman of the Year

A single-award fan ballot for Long Island high school football, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Unlike the best-of business contests across New York, this vote names a defensive lineman of the year, with nominees listed by school and class. The 2026 window ends Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, cutoff 11:59 p.m. Pacific (PT), following a 2025 edition that has already shut.

Were The 72 Dolphins Or 66 Packers Better Champions

WTMM-FM puts a single head-to-head question to its New York audience at 1045theteam.com: were the '72 Dolphins or the '66 Packers the better champions? The matchup is the closing round of the station's Best Champions Bracket, decided entirely by public vote, with the winner settled on the Monday morning of February 4 alongside a drawing from each earlier round. The bracket has appeared in eight separate years.

WFRG Favorite New York State License Plate Vote

WFRG-FM's Favorite New York State License Plate vote asks listeners to pick a redesign concept at bigfrog104.com; the page's own text once framed it as New York State itself asking for help, though this guide confirms WFRG-FM, not a state agency, as the organizer. One past cycle closed voting Monday, September 2nd, at 11:59 PM. Exact dates and rules for the current cycle: confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Who do you think will be Section V's Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Section V runs a public fan vote naming the player of the year for its girls basketball scene, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Confirmed ballots exist for 2023 and 2025, with the 2025 poll sitting in a January window. The most recent ballot is marked closed, so a nominee's supporters should check its status before planning any push. No printed open or closing day accompanies the award.

Who is readers' choice for Rockland football player of the year, presented by White Plains Hospital

This readers' choice honor asks the Rockland, New York community to name an annual football player of the year, with White Plains Hospital attached as presenter. Voting happens on Crowdsignal through its poll.fm service, and the known history holds editions in 2022 and 2025, each falling inside a December window. The 2025 ballot has closed, and the 2026 edition is the next one anticipated.

Who is Section V's Boys Athlete of the Week presented by Faber Builders

Section V runs a weekly boys athlete of the week ballot for New York high school sports, presented by Faber Builders, with the vote itself carried on poll.fm, Crowdsignal's balloting service. Anyone with the ballot link can read the nominees' achievements above the poll and cast a public vote before the poll closes at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Confirmed ballots run across 2023 through 2026, and the June 8-14 ballot has closed.

Who is Section V's Football Athlete of the Week presented by Faber Builders

Section V runs a weekly high school football fan vote, presented by Faber Builders, that asks readers to pick the section's athlete of the week. Ballots are hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Three edition years sit behind the series, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the most recent ballot on the program covered the week of Nov. 17-23. Section V's published coverage says the poll stays open until 8 p.m. on Wednesday.

Who is the Advantage Federal Credit Union's Section V Boys Athlete of the Week

The Advantage Federal Credit Union's Section V Boys Athlete of the Week ballot lives on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, open to supporters of Section V boys high school sports in New York. The 2023 and 2024 cycles each have a confirmed ballot, and a poll for the June 3-9 window is marked closed on the live page. Voting for the current cycle opened on September 8, 2026, and nominations are accepted by email. Rules on repeat voting sit outside what is published, so check the ballot each time.

Who is the All-CNY boys soccer small school player of the year

The All-CNY small school player of the year award for boys soccer is settled by a public January vote carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. Two runs are verified, 2023 and 2025. Backers choose from a short slate of small school nominees with no login, and the result feeds central New York's wider All-CNY honors cycle for high school programs.

Who is the All-CNY football small school player of the year

The All-CNY small school player of the year, an annual New York high school football honor, is settled by fan ballot that Crowdsignal runs at poll.fm. The 2023 and 2025 editions are confirmed, and the voting window sits in January.

Who is the All-CNY small school boys basketball player of the year

The All-CNY honour for the top small school performer in New York boys basketball is a public vote on Crowdsignal's poll.fm. Two editions are confirmed, 2023 and 2025, and the 2024-25 season ballot sat at poll.fm/15402584 with voting in April. Exact open and close dates, category details and any cap on repeat submissions are not printed with the ballot, so check the live page each cycle.

Who is the lohud Flag Football Player of the Week, presented by White Plains Hospital

This ballot is a weekly series, not a single statewide vote. Each spring, lohud publishes a fresh flag football Player of the Week ballot presented by White Plains Hospital, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Confirmed seasons span March through June, and confirmed edition years include 2023, 2025 and 2026. Supporters pick a nominated player from a listed school and submit before the weekly cutoff, which the most recent ballot set at 3 p.m. on a Wednesday.

Who is the lohud Readers Choice Boys Basketball Player of the Year, presented by White Plains Hospital

The lohud Readers Choice award for the season's top boys basketball player, presented by White Plains Hospital, uses a Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm/16797650. Editions sit in 2023 and 2026, with the 2026 window held in March and now closed. Nominees are high school players from New York communities including Mamaroneck, Dobbs Ferry and Suffern. Window dates, category rules and per-supporter limits are unpublished.

Who is the Poughkeepsie Journal Athlete of the Week

A weekly high school athlete poll published by the Poughkeepsie Journal, a newspaper based in Poughkeepsie, New York. Readers choose the standout performer each week through the Crowdsignal survey service at poll.fm, and the series has confirmed seasons in 2022, 2023 and 2024. A spring ballot covering April 27-May 3 has since closed, and fresh week-by-week polls appear during the October-through-May school-year stretch.

Who is the Reader's Choice boys lacrosse player of the year, presented by White Plains Hospital

The Reader runs a public-vote award asking who the Reader's Choice boys lacrosse player of the year is, presented by White Plains Hospital. Balloting is hosted on Crowdsignal's poll.fm, and the confirmed runs on file are 2022 and 2026. The 2026 ballot was open during June and is now closed. The publisher has not printed the precise opening and closing days, so those details confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Who was the Section III boys basketball player of the week

Section III asks its boys basketball community a weekly question during the winter season: which player deserves player of the week? The vote runs on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service, and the ballot on file carried the dates March 3 through March 9 before closing. Edition years on file are 2023 and 2024, which is why the programme is treated as annual. Nominee names and their schools appear on the live ballot itself, and the organizer publishes no supporting rules beside the vote.

Who was the Section III football player of the week? (Finals)

Section III runs a player of the week ballot for high school football whose finals round sits on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The vote is open to supporters across Section III's New York coverage area, and finals voting falls between September and November in the seasons the program has run. Confirmed editions appear for 2020, 2023 and 2025, with 2026 standing as the next expected run. The ballot page itself stays silent on the day-level calendar, and the per-submission rule is likewise not shown, so read both from the live poll before planning any push.

WKTV Boo-ti-ful Costume Contest

Eight is the number anchoring WKTV's Boo-ti-ful Costume Contest: eight confirmed fall editions, 2018 through 2025, each one hosted on wktv.secondstreetapp.com through the Second Street voting platform. WKTV, a New York television station, organizes the program directly. The most recent window opened October 6, 2025 and closed October 31, 2025; nothing dated for a 2026 edition has posted yet, and the category list, vote cap and eligibility rules stay unpublished; confirm all three on the live ballot each cycle before promising any of them to a supporter.

WKTV Boo-ti-ful Costume Contest 2025

WKTV runs the Boo-ti-ful Costume Contest, a Halloween photo vote for Utica, New York, hosted on Second Street. The 2025 edition opened on October 6 and closed on October 31. Eight editions have run since 2018 without a break, making this an established annual fixture. WKTV lists no categories and no cap on votes anywhere on the ballot page, so check the live page before any push.

Your Pick for Lohud Readers Choice Football Player of the Year

This lohud Readers Choice poll lets New York high school football fans pick their player of the year on a one-question Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. Confirmed editions ran in December 2023 and December 2024, and the 2024 poll closed with a published tally. Day-level dates for the window are nowhere on the ballot, so the live poll is the place to check them. This page covers the host, the mechanic, the edition history and the sibling ballots around it.

Buffalo CARES Animal Rescue Calendar Contest

Kenmore · Buffalo CARES Animal Rescue Calendar Contest

Buffalo CARES Animal Rescue runs the Buffalo CARES Animal Rescue Calendar Contest as a photo fundraiser for its Kenmore, New York shelter, hosted through GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/buffalocares. Two editions are confirmed, 2022 and 2023, with the confirmed 2022 cycle automatically ending at 8:00 PM Eastern on Friday, September 30. The rescue frames the contest as a search for 12 photos of pets to fill its fundraising calendar, and the 12 photos pulling the most votes become that cycle's winners. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Chautauqua County Humane Society Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest

Jamestown · Chautauqua County Humane Society

Chautauqua County Humane Society runs the Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest, a playing-cards-themed pet-photo fundraiser for its Jamestown, New York shelter, hosted by GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/chautauquacountyhumanesociety-2016. Six confirmed edition years back it, 2014 through 2019, and the 2016 round's own page set a minimum of five votes per order before closing January 31 at 9:59:59 PM. Nothing published names a round since. The winner receives the title "CCHS 2016 Pet of the Year" plus a printed deck of 54 cards carrying their pet's name. Category rules and vote caps are unstated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Chautauqua County Humane Society Hot Dogs, Cool Cats Photo Contest

The Hot Dogs, Cool Cats Photo Contest is a pet photo fundraiser run on the GoGo Photo Contest platform for supporters in Jamestown and Chautauqua County, New York. Six confirmed editions ran between 2014 and 2019, and the 2016 round closed on January 31 at 9:59:59 PM Eastern Time. The 2016 ballot asked for a minimum of five votes per order. Whether a newer round is open is not published, so check the live ballot before planning a push.

Pet Pride's Cool Cats Calendar Contest

Pet Pride of New York runs a paid photo fundraiser on GoGo Photo Contest in which supporters pay ten dollars to enter a cat photo and a dollar a vote to push it up the grid. The 2025 ballot, raising money for the 2026 calendar, accepted entries from August 15 to September 15 and votes from September 16 to October 15, 2025. Confirmed editions sit in 2025 and 2026.

Now For Who Should Win Buffalos Cutest Couples Contest

Buffalo's Cutest Couples Contest is a February photo vote run by WBLK, Power 93.7 WBLK, on wblk.com, the site the broadcaster runs itself. The one printed close date lands at noon on a Friday, February 10. Confirmed editions span 2021 through 2026, with 2027 the next expected cycle. Rules such as entry eligibility and daily limits stay unprinted; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.