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Albany, New York

Albany (/ˈɔːlbəni/ AWL-bə-nee) is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of and the most populous city in the county of the same name. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River, and about 135 miles (220 km) north of New York City.

Albany

United States

1614 (1614)

1686 (1686)

21.94 sq mi (56.81 km2)

21.40 sq mi (55.44 km2)

0.53 sq mi (1.38 km2)

2,811.6 sq mi (7,282 km2)

148 ft (45 m)

378 ft (115 m)

2 ft (0.6 m)

99,224

100,826 (US: 329th)

4,635.77/sq mi (1,789.90/km2)

593,142 (US: 73rd)

2,186.3/sq mi (844.1/km2)

1,170,483 (US: 63rd)

416.3/sq mi (160.7/km2)

Albanian[8]

12201–12212, 12214, 12220, 12222–12232

36-01000

977310[6]

The city is known for its architecture, commerce, culture, institutions of higher education, and rich history. It is the economic and cultural core of the Capital District of the State of New York, which comprises the Albany–SchenectadyTroy Metropolitan Statistical Area, including the nearby cities and suburbs of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. With an estimated population of 1.1 million in 2013, the Capital District is the third most populous metropolitan region in the state. As of 2022, Albany's population was 100,826.


The Hudson River area was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Mohican (Mahican), who called it Pempotowwuthut-Muhhcanneuw.[9] The area was settled by Dutch colonists who, in 1614, built Fort Nassau for fur trading and in 1624, built Fort Orange. In 1664, the English took over the Dutch settlements, renaming the city Albany in honor of the Duke of York's Scottish title, the Duke of Albany, which takes it name from Alba, the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland.[10] The Duke of Albany would later become James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland.[11] The city was officially chartered in 1686 under English rule. It became the capital of New York in 1797 after the formation of the United States. Albany is the oldest surviving settlement of the original British thirteen colonies north of Virginia. No other city in the United States has been continuously chartered as long.[12]


In the late 18th century and throughout most of the 19th, Albany was a center of trade and transportation. The city lies toward the north end of the navigable Hudson River. It was the original eastern terminus of the Erie Canal, connecting to the Great Lakes, and was home to some of the earliest railroads in the world. In the 1920s a powerful political machine controlled by the Democratic Party arose in Albany. In the latter part of the 20th century, Albany's population shrank because of urban sprawl and suburbanization. In the 1990s, the New York State Legislature approved for the city a US$234 million building and renovation plan, which spurred redevelopment downtown.[13] In the early 21st century, Albany's high-technology industry grew, with great strides in nanotechnology.[14][15]

List of people associated with Albany County, New York

Bucha, Ukraine

Ukraine

Nassau, Bahamas

The Bahamas

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Netherlands

Tula, Russia

Russia

Verona, Italy

Italy

The city of Nijmegen, Netherlands connected with Albany following World War II. With the help of the Catholic university in Albany, the Catholic University of Nijmegen (Radboud University Nijmegen) rebuilt its partly destroyed library, with over 50,000 books being donated to the Dutch university. To show its gratitude for post-war assistance, the city sent Albany 50,000 tulip bulbs in 1948; this act led to the establishment of the annual Tulip Festival.[104] Most of the other connections were made in the 1980s during Mayor Whalen's term in office as part of his cultural expansion program.[104]


Albany's sister cities are:[357][358]

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Albany, New York

Neighborhoods of Albany, New York

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USS Albany

Anderson, George Baker (1897). . Syracuse, New York: D. Mason and Company. OCLC 1728151.(Full text via the Internet Archive.)

Landmarks of Rensselaer County New York

Brodhead, John Romeyn (1874). . New York City: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. OCLC 458890237.

History of the State of New York

Burger, Joanna (2006). Whispers in the Pines: a Naturalist in the Northeast. Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.  0-8135-3794-0.(Full text via Google Books.)

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, ed. (1911). "Albany (New York)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 489–491.

Chisholm, Hugh

French, John Homer (1860). . Syracuse, New York: R. Pearsall Smith. OCLC 224691273.(Full text via Google Books.)

Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State

Grondahl, Paul (2007). Mayor Erastus Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma. Albany: State University of New York Press.  978-0-7914-7294-1.

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Howell, George Rogers; Jonathan Tenney (1886). . New York City: W. W. Munsell & Co. OCLC 11543538.(Full text via Google Books.)

Bi-centennial History of Albany: History of the County of Albany, N.Y. from 1609 to 1886 (Volume I)

Howell, George Rogers; Jonathan Tenney (1886). . New York City: W. W. Munsell & Co. OCLC 11543538.(Full text via Google Books.)

Bi-centennial History of Albany: History of the County of Albany, N.Y. from 1609 to 1886 (Volume II)

(2006). Albany, Capital City on the Hudson: An Illustrated History. Sun Valley, California: American Historical Press. ISBN 1-892724-53-7.

McEneny, John

National Municipal League (1896). . Philadelphia: Selheimer Printing Company. pp. 137–148. OCLC 40371852.(Full text via Google Books.)

Proceedings of the Conference for Good City Government and the Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League (Volume 5)

Reynolds, Cuyler (1906). . Albany: J. B. Lyon Company. OCLC 457804870.(Full text via Google Books.)

Albany Chronicles: A History of the City Arranged Chronologically, From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

(2002). Then & Now: Albany. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1142-0.

Rittner, Don

Rittner, Don (2009). Remembering Albany: Heritage on the Hudson. Charleston, South Carolina: History Press.  978-1-59629-770-8.

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Venema, Janny (2003). Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652–1664. Hilversum: Verloren.  0-7914-6079-7.

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Waite, Diana S. (1993). Albany Architecture: A Guide to the City. Albany: Mount Ida Press.  0-9625368-1-4.

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Whish, John D. (1917). . Albany: J.B. Lyon Company. OCLC 17438709.(Full text via Google Books.)

Albany Guide Book

. Albany: The Argus Company. 1872. OCLC 8260640. (Full text via Google Books.)

The Albany Lumber Trade: Its History and Extent

. Albany: Barber and Southwick. 1800. OCLC 55813771. (Full text via Google Books.)

The Charter of the City of Albany; and the Laws and Ordinances Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the Said City, in Common Council Convened

Button, Daniel Evan (2003). . Albany: Whitston Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87875-542-4.

Take City Hall!

Gehring, Charles T. (2000). Fort Orange Records 1656–1678. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.  978-0-585-30922-4.

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(1983). O Albany! Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels. Albany: Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-670-52087-9.

Kennedy, William

(1998). Albany: Capital City on the Hudson. Sun Valley, California: American Historical Press. ISBN 978-0-965-47549-5.

McEneny, John

(1869). The Annals of Albany (2nd ed.). Albany: Joel Munsell. OCLC 11500714.

Munsell, Joel

Munsell, Joel (1865). . Albany: Joel Munsell. OCLC 2750413. (Full text via Google Books.)

Collections on the History of Albany: From its Discovery to the Present Time (Volume 1)

Rittner, Don (2000). Images of America: Albany. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing.  0-7385-0088-7.

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Roberts, Warren (2010). A Place in History: Albany in the Age of Revolution, 1775–1825. Albany: SUNY Press.  978-1-4384-3329-5.

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Scheltema, Gajus; Westerhuijs, Heleen, eds. (2011). Exploring Historic Dutch New York. New York: Museum of the City of New York / Dover Publications.  978-0-486-48637-6.

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Weise, Arthur James (1884). . Albany: E.H. Bender. OCLC 337558.

The History of the City of Albany, New York, from the Discovery of the Great River in 1524 by Verrazzano to the Present Time

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