Corning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River.

It is named for Erastus Corning, an Albany financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company that developed the community.

Corning is roughly equidistant from New York City and Toronto, being about 220 miles (350 km) from both.

The museum houses the Rakow Library,[5] one of the world's major glass research centers.

It contains an important collection of Western American painting and sculpture assembled over the past 40 years by Robert F. and Hertha Rockwell.

The city has commercial air service available at Elmira/Corning Regional Airport in the nearby town of Big Flats.

Corning is also home to the 2006 New York State Class A high school football champions.

In 2007, a petition was launched to ban this practice by local resident Kirk Huttleston which eventually became known as Proposition 1.

The first settlers used the area's river systems to transport logs and finished lumber in fleets downstream to buyers.

Canal cargoes from Corning included soft coal, timber, tobacco, grain, and whiskey.

From April 22 to December 11, 1850, the canal season that year, the newspaper reported that 1,116 boats left the port of Corning.

The Civil War brought an abnormal amount of business, with a peak of 307,151 tons hauled in one year.

In the Corning area, eighteen people were killed and untold millions of dollars of damage was incurred.

[13] The river was an important source of power in the early history, and is part of the attractiveness of the region today.

The river is prone to floods, as rain water runs off quickly from the steep hillsides of the area.

In 1972 the remnants of Hurricane Agnes dropped fifteen or more inches of rain in the area within a short time causing extensive flooding.

[citation needed] Amo Houghton, the area's long-serving U.S. congressman, was a moderate Republican.

[citation needed] Corning is in New York's 23rd congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican Nick Langworthy.

In addition to the public and private school options, the Corning-Painted Post District also partners with a regional P-Tech school (known as "The Greater Southern Tier STEM Academy") and sends selected students to a grade 9-14 program on their campus.