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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 Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

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.

Arts center
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The Curtis R. Priem is a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which opened on October 3, 2008.

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.

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 .

Village
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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 Panjabi: “ٹراۓ، نیویارک”

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