Have you ever taken a step back to look at how beautiful and interesting your hometown truly is?
We LOVE our town & the citizens of Schenectady. Sometimes, you really need to become a tourist in your own town to appreciate it!
Schenectady is the home to over 66,000+ people! We have so many delicious family-owned restaurants, Proctors Theatre & Awesome History! We have been lucky enough to enjoy this beautiful city for almost 95 years!
Eat at Someplace New
Schenectady has some of the YUMMIEST food! Many of the restaurants are family owned.
Do you love wings? Whether its wing night or Sunday football game – Wander your way into 20 North Broadway Tavern where they have 8-9 different flavored wings!
If you are looking for great italian food try out Johnny’s, Canali’s, Perreca’s, and Armando’s.
If you are looking for more homestyle food you can head to the Bellevue Cafe and Blue Ribbon.
If you are looking for more of a challenge, right down the road from us is Wagon Train BBQ where you can get the The Graveyard Burger which consist of “1lb Black Angus Burger 4 slices of American cheese 2 fried eggs 6 slices of bacon 8oz pulled pork 8oz beef brisket 8oz cole slaw 8oz Mac n Cheese Onion Tanglers Jalepeno Bottle Caps with Onion Ring and French Fries on a Ginormous Fresh Baked Roll. It weighs 5.5 lbs Total Weight – cost $44.95 – and if you can at eat it all in 30min or less and it is FREE!”
Last but not least – finish your night at Villa Italia where you can pick out your favorite pastry!
Taking a walk around Downtown
- We have some amazing theatre’s right in our backyard
- Check out the Schenectady Green Market on Sundays 10AM–2PM – Around Schenectady City Hall where you can find some delicious homemade goodies & treats!
- Lots of kid friendly attractions
- River’s Casino in Schenectady opened in 2017. They offer:
- A hotel, multiple restaurants, Table games, Slots, Poker and Entertainment!
- If you are looking for something more relaxed, enjoy the beautiful flowers at the Central Park Rose Garden
FUN FACT! In the 1950s television series, The Honeymooners, Trixie’s mother was from Schenectady.
Union College was founded in 1795 and has SO much amazing history. Here are some fun facts about Union College (taken from wikipedia)
- In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement grew in Schenectady. In 1836, Rev. Isaac Groot Duryee (also recorded as Duryea) co-founded the interracial Anti-Slavery Society at Union College and the Anti-Slavery Society of Schenectady in 1837. Freedom seekers were supported via the Underground Railroad route that ran through the area, passing to the west and north to Canada, which had abolished slavery.[28]
- The Way We Were (1973) was filmed on location in Schenectady at Union College, and in nearby Ballston Spa. It starred Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. One of Wade’s employees also stared in different roles in this film!
- Union alumni have distinguished themselves in fields such as law, medicine, ministry, botany, geology, engineering, local, state, and federal government, literature and poetry, photography, military service, education, journalism, and architecture.Among the most renown are:
- Chester A. Arthur[100] (1848), 21st President of the United States
- William H. Seward[101] (1820), Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, Governor of New York, and architect of the Alaska Purchase from Russia
- Andrea Barrett (1974), winner of the National Book Award (for Ship Fever) and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction.
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1946)[102] winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, studied Nuclear Physics at the Graduate School.
- Alan F. Horn (1964),[103] the chairman of Walt Disney Studios, and former President and COO of Warner Bros.;
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow[104] (1856), author of The Hashish Eater;
- Howard Simons (1951),[105] managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era;
- Nikki Stone (1995)[106] winner of a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics for aerial skiing
Photo credit to discoverschenectady.com
