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Area codes in New York state; area codes 518 and 838 highlighted in light green. Area codes 518 and 838 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for eastern Upstate New York in the United States. 518 is one of the 86 original North American area codes created in 1947.
The Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget. The MSA includes Albany , Rensselaer , Saratoga , Schenectady , and Schoharie counties; this area makes up a large portion of the Capital District. [ 115 ]
Schenectady County (/ s k ə ˈ n ɛ k t ə d i /) is a county in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,061. [2] The county seat is Schenectady. [3] The name is from a Mohawk language word meaning "on the other side of the pine lands," a term that originally applied to Albany.
Roessleville is a hamlet in the town of Colonie, Albany County, New York, United States. It is a densely settled suburb of the city of Albany, along New York State Route 5. Roessleville was a census-designated place in the 1990 Census, but was deleted in 2000, [1] but became a CDP again in 2020. [2]
The Hudson River Railroad was chartered on May 12, 1846 to extend the Troy and Greenbush Railroad, which connected Troy and Albany, south to New York City along the east bank of the Hudson River. Service began on the first 41 miles (66 km) of the line from Chambers Street and Hudson Street in Lower Manhattan to Peekskill on September 29, 1849.
The program went through a 30-day warning period beginning in April before fully launching in May, which led to over 130,000 work zone speeding violations issued across the state last year.
New York State Route 5 (NY 5) is a state highway that extends for 370.80 miles (596.74 km) across the state of New York in the United States. It begins at the Pennsylvania state line in the Chautauqua County town of Ripley and passes through Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Schenectady, and several other smaller cities and communities on its way to downtown Albany in Albany County, where it ...
Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York. [1] [2] Upstate includes the middle and upper Hudson Valley, the Capital District, the Mohawk Valley region, Central New York, the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes region, Western New York, and the North Country.