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Syracuse, New York (U.S.)

Onondaga County

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 June 2010

Description of the flag
Variant flags
Detail of seal in flag
Old city seal (1885)

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Description of the flag

Wikipedia shows a b&w drawing of what it purports is the city flag of Syracuse NY at en.wikipedia.org. This has a large logo with the Mayor's name underneath. The logo is rectangular on its lower portion, and semi-circular on the upper portion. It has been reproduced on many other websites. But I am suspicious about this claim. In addition to the unlikelihood of the city putting its mayor's name on the flag, and having to change it with every change in administration, I am doubtful of this flag for another reason. A photo at www.syracuse.ny.us/images/content/mayor.jpg shows the Mayor of Syracuse in front of a white flag with a blue & gold circular emblem which looks as if it is the city seal. I think that this is much more likely to be the official flag of the city.
Ned Smith, 17 September 2005

The city does have a flag as partly shown here in the Mayor's biography on the city website: www.syracuse.ny.us. The flag is white with a city seal in black and gold. While not listed in the U.S. City flag survey, Syracuse does have a flag. Hopefully someone can locate more information. My recent emails to the mayors office on the issue have been unanswered.
Ben Cahoon, 7 June 2008

It looks like the current flag is light blue-white-light blue in 3 horizontal stripes with the official city seal centered on the white stripe. The white stripe looks to be twice as wide as the light-blue ones. The seal looks like the 1885/1974 seal with the white areas done in gold. Syracuse city seal details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_City_of_Syracuse.
Ben Cahoon, 27 May 2010

I received several photos of the Syracuse city flag in high resolution. They all (except one) show the seal without smoke, and that's the one that I received in b/w version in PDF. The one photo of the flag outdoors shows the flag with a coloured seal (I mean in full color, not yellow-black).
Valentin Poposki, 9 June 2010

Variant flags

image located by Vanja Poposki, 22 September 2012

Variants of the flag show different dimensions and different coloring of the seal.

Detail of seal in flag

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 June 2010

Flag image made using the seal image shown at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Syracuse_Seal.png, but the flag shown in official use in these two photos uploaded 31 January 2010:
www.syracuse.ny.us/.../063(2).jpg and www.syracuse.ny.us/.../081.1.jpg is slightly different. Image co-credit to wp:en:User:east718
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 June 2010

Old city seal (1885)

image provided by Ben Cahoon, 27 May 2010

I attached the 1885 city seal, however, the smoke was removed in 1974, but I don't have an image of the newer version. The original seal was in use 1885-1974; used 1974-1986 with smoke removed, 1994 the version readopted.
Ben Cahoon, 27 May 2010