Troy NY: A Brief Overview 

It doesn't make sense to me how the Albany metropolitan area doesn't have a bigger minor-league baseball team. As of yesterday, the ValleyCats no longer even have a major-league affiliate. For an area of around 1,000,000 people this is an embarassment, especially because the VCs have always had a fanbase. For perspective, Erie PA and Binghamton both have AA teams and Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse all have AAA. To be honest I think we ought to have a team on par with them.

Gonna be honest, didn't expect much from a video on Troy just because no one ever seems to pay it any attention, but I was pleasantly surprised. Keep up the good work man!

I was born and raised in Troy. It was wonderful to be a teenager back in the 50s and 60s. I often miss my home town. It has changed a lot since I lived there, which makes me sad. ❤

Love it. Beautiful walkable city. Keep it up!

I'm moving to Troy after living in NYC for my entire 30 years. I was already very excited, but this video helped make me look forward to it even more, thank you.

I spent four years there in the early 80's. It was a hoot to find out that they used some of the frat houses at RPI as "Victorian era mansions" in the movie "The Age of Innocence" with Daniel Day Lewis and Wynona Ryder. Another plus - it's an easy drive to Boston, through very scenic roads (in the fall). And the Adirondacks and the Berkshires are a stone's throw away. And apparently, Troy looks Victorian enough to serve as a backdrop to the HBO mini series "The Guilded Age."

I found out today that my great grand father was from Troy NY ….I am French speaking and living on Vancouver Island now…. I can only imagine how lively it was in the early century….I always felt a pulled from New York State and for awesome architecture….now I know why 🌷💕

Current RPI student here. Troy is quite the place.

I just want to say that this was a great video. You did a wonderful job sharing the history, layout and the pros & cons of Troy. The part I enjoyed the is your positive outlook. Well done!

Thanks for sharing this! Troy NY is definitely one of the greatest cities! The grounds of both universities (RPI & SAGE) have some of the most vibrant and varied, beautiful, and meticulously cared for landscaping. Their downtown is indeed struggling because of the current pandemic, but I have faith in the people of Troy to rebuild and help each other out (they are a uniquely encouraging and sharing bunch in Troy:-). Two major rivers run through Troy: the Hudson, and the Mohawk. There are several parks for such a small'ish city. Troy is also fortunate in that it incorporates trees and other green infrastructure throughout parts of the city (particularly in and around downtown). For a city in the Capital Region, Troy is surrounded by an incredibly high amount of mother nature: mountains, gorges, waterfalls, tributaries, ponds, rivers, city & state parks, tree-lined streets - it is a BEAUTIFUL city. There are many mountain ranges all within 40 miles (& some within clear view): the Greylock Mountain Range, the Blackhead Mountains, the Helderberg Mountains, the Hoosac Mountain Range, the Kaderosseras Range, the Luzerne Mountains, the Palmertown Range, and the Taconic Range. Both MA & VT are within spitting distance (VERY easy driving distance). Their architecture is simply - wow! There are some very nice bridges (my favorite is the Green Island Bridge). Troy NY is also host to not only the best farmer's market in NYS, but nationally. Nope, it's not an exaggeration (although it will need building up after this awful pandemic, as so many things will). www.agilitypr.news/Troy-Farmers-Market-Voted-1st-in-Nation--6196 Crime? yes, wherever there are human beings there will, sadly, be crime. Still, it is a truly great city for so many reasons, the people being one of those greatest reasons. I'm glad to see that somebody else thought enough of Troy NY that he (you) shared this wonderful video. Thank you for sharing it! :-)

Thank u for these. I grew up in Albany and left as soon as I could. After more than twenty years in NYC, unfortunate circumstances found me back upstate and I now own a home in Schenectady. My children were so upset by the move they referred to it not exactly inaccurately as “Rednecktady”. But after viewing your video of my new little city yesterday, I was less embarrassed. Seriously. And seeing how nicely you portrayed Troy, ...well all I can say “Bravo, well done.” ...oh, and thank you. Keep up the good work.

My daughter was accepted to RPI for Fall 2021 and she's trying to decide if RPI is the right school for her. We haven't been able to visit due to Covid, so I was thrilled to find this video. Friends have commented that Troy is similar to Worcester MA and I think they're right. Some areas are better than others, it has areas of downtown being revitalized, and it had a big, expensive, abandoned mall too. We'll have to take a day trip and drive around a bit.

This is a great video! Love Troy, NY! Thank you for sharing!

My hometown...Well done!

Really enjoyed this and learning about Troy. Great video.

I was born in Troy in the 1950s. It was a great place to live. My morning paper route took me through the RPI campus; I'd deliver The Times Record to a lot of the fraternity houses. This was before global warming. In winter, I'd cover a couple of miles at 6 in the morning in below freezing temperatures. Brrrrr.

My first experience with Troy was around 1980, when my mother moved there from the Utica area. Eventually, my sister moved to Troy around 1983. My mother couldn't wait to get out of Troy and moved to Albany. My sister stayed in Troy until about 2016. Over the years Troy went down hill. I've heard many refer to Troy as "the Troilet". I last visited Troy in 2018 and it hasn't improved. In fact, most of upstate suffers from bad politicians, high taxes and a lack of good paying jobs. I love to visit but, I had to move out of NY for better wages.

Excellent video! I was a tiny bit disappointed you didn't mention the Troy Library. Downtown across from Sage, it has a beautiful Tiffany Window behind the circulation desk! I used to work there a few years ago and I really enjoyed it, especially showing the window and talking about it and a brief history of Troy. The building itself is interesting and historic. Aside from that, you make Troy an appealing place to visit!

This is very cool!

I lived in the Capital Region and always liked Troy.

Very well Done!!

Very nice work Life long New Yorker but never knew too much about these small upstate places I do remember thinking, over the years, about the many great Americans who originally came from here iI believe someday it will be revived.

Troy is surprisingly beautiful, a GEM of upstate NY .....

Really enjoyed this video!

nicely done dan!

Funny, I used to live at the Cannon Building! Stunning place to live.

I was born and raised in Troy. THis is a great video, well done. Thank you!

this is fire content

Troy it’s very small town , Its not far from Albany , I love that historical buildings landmark. I was looking to live in Troy now that I see the history and learn it which way is really about.Also it’s pretty good colleges upstate New York that you can attend to.I still think about moving up to Troy .I like this video it’s very informative thank you

Great photography

Thank you for the clarification of the Atrium debacle. Most are unaware of the situation.

I’m your 1,000th subscriber! Cheers

About to ship off to RPI in a couple weeks. I'm trying to get to know the city from a distance, and this was great. thanks man

i love how you zoomed in right on my house for a bit

I love it

I wish i could visit this place someday. Greetings from the Philippines. 🇵🇭

Nice production

Love your work, man! If you did a profile on my mom's hometown, Binghamton, I would be forever grateful! :)

A few important facts that would have been good to mention in this documentary regarding RPI. It is the first polytechnic university in the United States. Another interesting thing, MIT was established to be also a polytechnic and it had as its model to emulate RPI. It is documented that MIT hoped to be everything that RPI was. In the video RPI was ranked #53, as of today 10/1/2022 it is currently ranked #33 in Engineering out of over 4,000 colleges in the USA.

I lived at Paul House down the street from where EMPAC is now for almost a year. I was fifteen but I got a lot of memories. It wasn't where you'd want to be back then...

THIS MY TOWNNNN

The ValleyCats will live on in the independent Frontier league. And yes, you misspelled Van Rensselaer. As an RPI alum the first thing I learned was the proper spelling.

The only thing I knew about Troy until now is that Troy-Bilt tillers we’re manufactured here up until 2001 when the company was acquired by MTD. Sadly, Troy-Bilt was a company that did well until management decided to purchase Bolens in the 90’s. This made them too heavy trying to produce several types of outdoor power equipment. Troy-Bilt also tried to give every customer a lifetime guarantee on every piece of equipment sold to stand out from the competition. This all lead to the downfall of the company.

“It’s near Albany…almost 140 miles north of the city.” Bro 😳

Needs more Famous Lunch.

The Emma Willard private high school in Troy at 2:01. It says the yearly tuition is $35,000 a year. Who’s got that type of money in Troy, NY? or in the surrounding areas? I know Albany has some decent high paying government jobs, but that’s a considerable commute from Albany every day, (unless your butler drives you) I live in Orlando, we have several expensive private high schools. We have a considerable amount of famous people’s (rich multimillionaire’s) children of PGA golfers. Children of *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, a lot of professional athletes live here. Their kids go to these school. Their yearly tuition is “Only” ~$25,000. Does the Albany-Troy area have a lot of millionaire rich celebrities, pro athletes, or NYC investment bankers live there?

First time I brought my girlfriend to Troy we stayed at an air bnb and it so happens to be the red building at 6:45 . Looks rough on the outside but a very nice on the inside😂👍🏻

Troy once had a major league level professional baseball team. When the team folded its place in the league was taken by a new team downstate, who got their name from the tall, future hall of fame first baseman, Roger Connor. And that's where the NY Giants, now the SF Giants, came from. /My problem with Troy is they run the pretty typical backwater parking ticket trap game, where if you want to fight a ticket they first make you come in and talk to the prosecutor on one day, and then, if you want to fight it, make you come in on another day to fight it. I got a bogus ticket in front of their city hall. I gave up on fighting it because it would have cost more to fight, but I stopped going to Troy. I'm not rich, over the years they have easily lost out on the cost of the ticket in terms of lost sales tax from me, as well as the revenue that their local shops could have made. I know speed traps and parking traps help fill gaps in the budget, but long term they damage your city's reputation.

My stomping grounds. High school football we kicked ass!

Is it safe ? Plan on moving there from queens ny

Shame that South Street Pub, closed.

I live in NYC. Geez, I feel kinda ignorant now, not realizing this city even exist upstate.

Shane is a real cutie-pie!

POV ur an rpi student and don’t know what to do on the weekend so u looked at this video

The Atrium is now an abandoned parking lot, it was a dump on the inside!

Troy doesn't just "claim to be the home of Uncle Sam" and "milk the legend for all it's worth" like he's some cheap trinket we trick the tourists with. Samuel Wilson's history is woven into the fabric of the city. He owned fruit orchards which fed the region, most of the original brick buildings are made of bricks produced by his brickworks, and the meat-packing business which made him famous for his 'US' stamp was at the foot of Ferry Street. Sam Wilson was originally buried in Mt Ida Cemetery and later reinterred in the majestic Oakwood Cemetery, both in Troy. Unrelated but still cool, the success of Troy's detachable collar industry eventually led Upton Sinclair to coin the term 'white collar' to describe the type of workers who tended to wear them.

They is the black death

It don’t show the hood

My place of birth 😁

I was today years old when I learned that Uncle Sam came from “U.S.”

A couple incorrect facts but overall nicely done.

Me and my former dorm mates at R.P.I. used to call Troy "the armpit of the Northeast".

Cmon u took shots of mostly downtown. Its so ugly, you should of went past rpi, past freat park, before brunswick

Was looking for an informational video of troy ny and i must say, you left much unsaid and most of all I do not understand your take on uncle sam. Are you displeased to learn that such an iconic figure came from such a place? He is literally buried in a cemetery in troy ny. The uncle sam cemetery. It may be small an obselete but he was not. So where is you get your questioning from? No troy is not a beautiful place anymore but its history is and should be untouched by questioning like yours. Also I may have to listen back to your video but no mention at all of the victorian stroll. We are one of the most iconic cities when it comes to victorian homes. Troy in recent years has very little to be proud of. Please don't diminish the pride we have left.💞

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I am not your #localhost

People across the Hudson often call Troy the ghetto

My knowledge of Troy NY is decades old and is from my days in college. Back then, it was a dumpy town. In my few visits to Troy in recent years, I have not seen much change. So please, don't let this video trick you into visiting Troy. Nothing to see.....move along.