Troy

Troy is a city in , located northeast of . Its nicknames include "The Collar City" and "Home of Uncle Sam." As a result of its unique history, Troy still has what is widely considered to be the best-preserved big-city 19th-century downtown in the country.
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  • Type: City with 51,400 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Rensselaer County, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Ashleys Ferry”, “Ferry Hook”, “Troy, New York”, “Troy, NY”, “Van Der Heyden Ferry”, “Van Der Heyden’s Ferry”, and “Vanderheydens Ferry”
  • Postal codes: 12180-12182

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hart-Cluett Mansion and Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

Museum
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The is located at 57 Second Street in Troy, New York, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is a contributing property to the Central Troy Historic District created in 1986.

Theater building
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, is a performance space in Troy, Rensselaer County, , United States. The music hall, renowned for its acoustics and an Odell concert organ, is operated by a not-for-profit organization.

Historic building
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The in Troy, New York is located on Broadway between First and State streets. It is the oldest building on Monument Square. It was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and built in 1835.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Watervliet and Green Island.

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is a city in northeastern , United States. The population was 10,375 as of the 2020 census. is north of , the capital of the state, and is bordered on the north, west, and south by the town of .

Town
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is a coterminous town-village in , , United States, some 8 miles north of . is one of only five such town-village amalgamations in New York.

Troy

Latitude
42.7284° or 42° 43′ 42″ north
Longitude
-73.6918° or 73° 41′ 30″ west
Population
51,400
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US TRY
Open location code
87J8P8H5+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158811649
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5141502
Wiki­data ID
Q600301
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Troy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تروي”
  • Armenian: “Թրոյ”
  • Basque: “Troy”
  • Belarusian: “Трой”
  • Bengali: “ট্রয়”
  • Bulgarian: “Трой”
  • Catalan: “Troy”
  • Cebuano: “Troy (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, New York)”
  • Cebuano: “Troy”
  • Chechen: “Трой”
  • Chinese: “Troy”
  • Chinese: “特洛伊 (紐約州)”
  • Chinese: “特洛伊”
  • Cornish: “Troy, Evrek Nowydh”
  • Croatian: “Troy”
  • Czech: “Troy”
  • Danish: “Troy”
  • Dutch: “Troy”
  • Eastern Mari: “Трой”
  • Esperanto: “Troy”
  • Estonian: “Troy”
  • Finnish: “Troy”
  • French: “Troy”
  • Galician: “Troy, Nova York”
  • Galician: “Troy”
  • Georgian: “ტროი”
  • German: “Troy”
  • Gilaki: “ترؤی”
  • Greek: “Τροία”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રોય”
  • Haitian: “Troy, New York”
  • Haitian: “Troy”
  • Hebrew: “טרוי”
  • Hindi: “ट्रॉय”
  • Hungarian: “Troy”
  • Inari Sami: “Troy”
  • Indonesian: “Troy, New York”
  • Indonesian: “Troy”
  • Irish: “Troy”
  • Italian: “Troy”
  • Japanese: “トロイ”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Troy”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರಾಯ್”
  • Kildin Sami: “Трой”
  • Korean: “트로이”
  • Ladin: “Troy”
  • Latvian: “Troja”
  • Lithuanian: “Trojus”
  • Lule Sami: “Troy”
  • Malay: “Troy”
  • Malayalam: “ട്രോയ്, ന്യൂയോർക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “ട്രോയ്”
  • Marathi: “ट्रॉय”
  • Mazanderani: “تروی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Troy”
  • Northern Sami: “Troy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Troy”
  • Norwegian: “Troy”
  • Persian: “تروی، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “تروی”
  • Piemontese: “Troy”
  • Pite Sami: “Troy”
  • Polish: “Troy”
  • Portuguese: “Troy”
  • Romanian: “Troy, New York”
  • Romanian: “Troy”
  • Russian: “Трой”
  • Russian: “Троя”
  • Serbian: “Трој”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Troy, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Troy”
  • Silesian: “Troy”
  • Sinhala: “ට්‍රෝයි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Troy”
  • Slovak: “Troy”
  • Slovenian: “Troy”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تروی، نیویورک”
  • Southern Sami: “Troy”
  • Spanish: “Troy (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Troy”
  • Swahili: “Troy, New York”
  • Swahili: “Troy”
  • Swedish: “Troy, New York”
  • Swedish: “Troy”
  • Tagalog: “Troy, New York”
  • Tagalog: “Troy”
  • Tajik: “Трай,Ню-Йорк”
  • Tajik: “Трай”
  • Tamil: “டிராய்”
  • Tatar: “Трой (Нью-Йорк)”
  • Tatar: “Трой”
  • Telugu: “ట్రాయ్”
  • Thai: “ทรอย”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Troy”
  • Turkish: “Troy, New York”
  • Turkish: “Troy”
  • Ukrainian: “Трой”
  • Ume Sami: “Troy”
  • Urdu: “ٹرائے، نیو یارک”
  • Vietnamese: “Troy, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Troy”
  • Volapük: “Troy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Troy, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Troy”
  • Welsh: “Troy, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Troy”
  • Western Armenian: “Թրոյ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹراۓ، نیویارک”

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