City of Schenectady

I-890 / NY-5 State St / I-87 Northway

The historic 'Electric City' — once the headquarters of General Electric and the American Locomotive Company, earning the nickname 'The City that Lights and Hauls the World.' Schenectady contains the Proctor's Theatre (a 1926 vaudeville house still operating as a major performing arts venue), Union College (founded 1795, one of the oldest colleges in the US), the Stockade Historic District (the oldest neighborhood in the city, dating to the 1660s), the Schenectady County Community College, Rivers Casino & Resort along the Mohawk River, the GE Research Center in Niskayuna (just across the city line), and the Schenectady Railway Station on the Amtrak Empire Service line.