Schenectady
Schenectady, once called the city that lights and hauls the world, is in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Approximately 20 minutes from New York's capital of Albany, Schenectady is best known as the birthplace of General Electric and for Proctor's Theater.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 61,600 residents
- Description: county seat of Schenectady County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Schenectady, New York”, “Schenectady, NY”, and “Skanéhtati”
- Postal codes: 12301-12309, 12325, and 12345
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dudley Observatory and Schenectady station.
Dudley Observatory
Observatory
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Dudley Observatory is an astronomical education non-profit located since 2019 in Loudonville, New York and is the oldest non-academic institution of astronomical research in America.
Schenectady station
Railway station
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Schenectady station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Schenectady, New York. The station, constructed in 2018 is owned by the Capital District Transportation Authority which also owns Albany–Rensselaer station and Saratoga Springs station.
Proctor’s Theatre
Theater building
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Proctor's Theatre is a theatre and former vaudeville house located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Many famous artists have performed there, including Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Hal Holbrook, Ted Wiles, and George Burns, as well as many others.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scotia and General Electric Realty Plot.
Scotia
Village
Scotia is a village in Schenectady County, New York, United States, incorporated in 1904. The population was 7,272 at the 2020 census. Scotia is part of the town of Glenville, and is connected with the city of Schenectady by the Western Gateway Bridge over the Mohawk River.
General Electric Realty Plot
Neighborhood
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The General Electric Realty Plot, often referred to locally as the GE Realty Plot, GE Plots or just The Plot, is a residential neighborhood in Schenectady, New York, United States.
Schenectady
- Categories: city in the state of New York, county seat, and locality
- Location: City of Schenectady, Schenectady, Capital District, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.8142° or 42° 48′ 51″ northLongitude
-73.9396° or 73° 56′ 22″ westPopulation
61,600Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)IATA airport code
SCHUnited Nations Location Code
US SCHOpen location code
87J8R376+M5OpenStreetMap ID
node 158801514OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5136454Wikidata ID
Q331380
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Schenectady” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سكنيكتادي”
- Arabic: “سهينيكتادي”
- Armenian: “Սկենեկտադի”
- Asturian: “Schenectady (Nueva York)”
- Asturian: “Schenectady”
- Azerbaijani: “Skenektadi”
- Azerbaijani: “Skenektedi”
- Basque: “Schenectady”
- Belarusian: “Скенектадзі”
- Bengali: “স্কেনেকটেডি”
- Breton: “Schenectady”
- Bulgarian: “Скенектади”
- Bulgarian: “Скънектади”
- Bulgarian: “Скънъктади”
- Catalan: “Schenectady (Nova York)”
- Catalan: “Schenectady”
- Cebuano: “Schenectady”
- Chechen: “Скенектади”
- Chinese: “Schenectady”
- Chinese: “斯克內克塔迪”
- Chinese: “斯克内克塔迪”
- Cornish: “Schenectady, Evrek Nowydh”
- Croatian: “Schenectady”
- Czech: “Schenectady”
- Dagbani: “Schenectady”
- Danish: “Schenectady”
- Dutch: “Schenectady”
- Esperanto: “Schenectady”
- Finnish: “Schenectady”
- French: “Schenectady, New York”
- French: “Schenectady”
- Galician: “Schenectady”
- Georgian: “სკენექტადი”
- German: “Schenectady”
- Gilaki: “اسکنکتدي (نيۊیؤرک)”
- Gilaki: “اسکنکتدي”
- Greek: “Σενέκταντι”
- Greek: “Σκενέκταντυ”
- Gujarati: “શેનેક્ટેડી”
- Haitian: “Schenectady, New York”
- Haitian: “Schenectady”
- Hebrew: “סקנקטדי”
- Hindi: “स्केंकेटेडी”
- Hungarian: “Schenectady”
- Indonesian: “Schenectady”
- Irish: “Schenectady”
- Italian: “Schenectady”
- Japanese: “スケネクタディ”
- Kannada: “ಷೆನೆಕ್ಟಾಡಿ”
- Korean: “스커넥터디”
- Korean: “스키넥터디”
- Ladin: “Schenectady”
- Latvian: “Skenektadi”
- Lithuanian: “Skenektadis”
- Luxembourgish: “Schenectady”
- Macedonian: “Скенектади”
- Malay: “Schenectady”
- Malayalam: “ഷെനെക്ടഡി”
- Marathi: “शेंकटैडी”
- Mazanderani: “اسکنکتدی (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “اسکنکتدی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schenectady”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schenectady”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schenectady”
- Norwegian: “Schenectady”
- Persian: “اسکنکتدی”
- Persian: “سکنکتدی، نیویورک”
- Persian: “سکنکتدی”
- Persian: “سینکتدی”
- Piemontese: “Schenectady”
- Polish: “Schenectady”
- Portuguese: “Schenectady, Nova Iorque”
- Portuguese: “Schenectady”
- Romanian: “Schenectady”
- Russian: “Schenectady”
- Russian: “Скенектади”
- Russian: “Скенектеди”
- Russian: “Скенектэди”
- Scots: “Schenectady”
- Serbian: “Скенектади”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schenectady, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schenectady”
- Silesian: “Schenectady”
- Sinhala: “ස්කනෙක්ටඩි”
- Slovak: “Schenectady”
- Slovenian: “Schenectady”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسکنکتدی، نیویورک”
- Spanish: “Schenectady (Nueva York)”
- Spanish: “Schenectady”
- Swahili: “Schenectady, New York”
- Swahili: “Schenectady”
- Swedish: “Schenectady, New York”
- Swedish: “Schenectady”
- Tagalog: “Schenectady, New York”
- Tagalog: “Schenectady”
- Tajik: “Шинетади,Ню-Йорк”
- Tajik: “Шинетади”
- Tamil: “ஸ்நெக்டாடி”
- Tatar: “Скенектади”
- Telugu: “షినెక్టడీ”
- Thai: “สเกอเนคเทอดี”
- Turkish: “Schenectady”
- Ukrainian: “Скенектаді”
- Urdu: “سکینیکٹیڈی، نیو یارک”
- Vietnamese: “Schenectady, New York”
- Vietnamese: “Schenectady”
- Volapük: “Schenectady, New York”
- Volapük: “Schenectady”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schenectady, New York”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schenectady”
- Welsh: “Schenectady, Efrog Newydd”
- Welsh: “Schenectady”
- Western Panjabi: “سکینکٹڈی ، نیویارک”
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