Schenectady

Schenectady, once called the city that lights and hauls the world, is in the region of . Approximately 20 minutes from New York's capital of , Schenectady is best known as the birthplace of General Electric and for Proctor's Theater.
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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.

Observatory
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is an astronomical education non-profit located since 2019 in and is the oldest non-academic institution of astronomical research in America.

Railway station
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is an Amtrak intercity train station in Schenectady, New York. The station is served by five Amtrak services. The Lake Shore Limited operates one train in each direction daily between and or New York City.

Museum
The is a and planetarium located in Schenectady, New York. miSci was founded in 1934 and its exhibitions and educational programming focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scotia and Mont Pleasant.

Village
is a village in , United States, incorporated in 1904. The population was 7,272 at the 2020 census. is part of the town of Glenville, and is connected with the city of Schenectady by the Western Gateway Bridge over the .

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood of Schenectady, , United States. It is located in the south central part of the city and is the most populated of Schenectady's neighborhoods and has the most housing units as well.

Neighborhood
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is the central business district for the city of Schenectady, . It originated in the 1820s with the moving of the commercial and industrial interests east from the original 17th and 18th century settlement, spurred on by the development of the .

Schenectady

Latitude
42.8142° or 42° 48′ 51″ north
Longitude
-73.9396° or 73° 56′ 22″ west
Population
61,600
Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)
IATA airport code
SCH
United Nations Location Code
US SCH
Open location code
87J8R376+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158801514
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5136454
Wiki­data ID
Q331380
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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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكينيكتادى ، نيو يورك”
  • Esperanto: “Schenectady”
  • Finnish: “Schenectady”
  • 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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