The Miss New York competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America pageant. Miss New York has won the Miss America Crown six times: Bess Myerson (1945, first Jewish American Miss America, competing as Miss New York City) Tawny Godin (Tawny Little) (1976) Vanessa Williams (1983, first African American Miss America) Mallory Hagan (2013) Nina Davuluri (2014, first Indian American Miss America) Kira Kazantsev (2015)
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