Troy, New York Official name: City of Troy Motto: Ilium fuit, Troja est (Latin for "Ilium was, Troy is" also interpreted as "Troy was, Troy is") Government Troy City Hall Troy, New York Troy, New York is positioned in New York Troy, New York Rensselaer County New York incorporated and unincorporated areas Troy highlighted.svg Wikimedia Commons: Troy, New York Troy is a town/city in the U.S.
Troy has close ties to the close-by cities of Albany and Schenectady, forming a region popularly called the Capital District.
Due to the confluence of primary waterways and a geography which supported water power, the American industrialized revolution took hold in this region making Troy assumedly the fourth wealthiest town/city in America around the turn of the 19th/20th century.
Troy is also home to the world famous "Troy Music Hall", formerly "Troy Savings Bank Music Hall" dating from the 1870s, which is said to have superb acoustics in a combination of restored and well preserved performance space.
In 1796, Troy became a village and in 1816 it became a city.
Main article: History of Troy, New York The name Troy (after the legendary town/city of Troy, made famous in Homer's Iliad) was adopted in 1789 before which it had been known as Ashley's Ferry, and the region was formed into the Town of Troy in 1791 from part of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck.
Troy became a village in 1801 and was chartered as a town/city in 1816.
In 1900, the town/city of Lansingburgh was consolidated into Troy.
In the post-Revolutionary War years, as central New York was first settled, there was a strong trend to classical names, and Troy's naming fits the same pattern as the New York metros/cities of Syracuse, Rome, Utica, Ithaca, or the suburbs of Sempronius, Manlius, or dozens of other classically titled towns to the west of Troy.
Northern and Western New York was a theater of the War of 1812, and militia and regular army forces were led by Stephen Van Rensselaer of Troy.
Troy has since claimed to be the historical home of Uncle Sam.
Through much of the 19th and into the early 20th century, Troy was not only one of the most prosperous metros/cities in New York State, but one of the most prosperous metros/cities in the entire country.
Prior to its rise as an industrialized center, Troy was the transshipment point for meat and vegetables from Vermont, which were sent by the Hudson River to New York City.
The Federal Dam at Troy is the head of the tides in the Hudson River and Hudson River sloops and steamboats plied the river on a regular basis.
Later on, ore and coal from the Midwest was shipped on the Erie Canal to Troy, and there processed before being sent on down the Hudson to New York City.
The iron and steel was also used by the extensive federal arsenal athwart the Hudson at Watervliet, New York, then called West Troy.
The existence of iron and steel also made it possible for Troy to be an early site in the evolution of iron storefronts and steel structural supports in architecture, and there are some momentous early examples still in the city.
The first team to call Troy home was the Troy Haymakers, a National Association team in 1871 and 1872.
The Troy Haymakers folded, and Troy had no team for seven seasons.
Then, for four seasons, 1879 to 1882, Troy was home to the National League Troy Trojans.
In 1900 Troy took in Lansingburgh, a former town and village whose standing dates back before to the War of Independence, in Rensselaer County.
However, before to the annexation, that portion of Troy north of Division Street was called North Troy and the neighborhood south of Washington Park is referred to as South Troy.
To avoid confusion with streets in Troy following the annexation, Lansingburgh's numbered streets were retitled: its 1st Street, 2nd Street, 3rd Street, etc., became North Troy's 101st Street, 102nd Street, 103rd Street, etc.
Cluett's "Arrow shirts" are still worn by men athwart the country. The large workforce force required by the shirt manufacturing trade also produced in 1864 the nation's first female workforce union, the Collar Laundry Union, established in Troy by Kate Mullany.
After the passage of Prohibition, and given the strict control of Albany by the O'Connell political machine, Troy became a way station for an illegal alcohol trade from Canada to New York City.
Likewise, the stricter control of morality laws in the neighboring New England states encouraged the evolution of openly-operating speakeasies and brothels in Troy.
Gangsters such as "Legs Diamond" conducted their company in Troy, giving the town/city a somewhat colorful reputation through World War II.
Like many old industrialized cities, Troy has had to deal with not only the loss of its manufacturing base, but a loss of populace and richness to suburbs and other parts of the country.
Kurt Vonnegut lived in Troy and the area, and many of his novels include mentions of "Ilium" (an alternate name for Troy) or encircling locations.
As of 2014, Troy is updating its citywide elected plan for the first time in more than 50 years. The two-year process is known as "Realize Troy" and was initiated by the Troy Redevelopment Foundation (with members from the Emma Willard School, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Russell Sage College and St.
Troy is positioned several miles north of Albany near the junction of the Erie and Champlain canals, via the Hudson River and is the end of the New York Barge Canal.
The town/city borders inside Rensselaer County, Schaghticoke to the north, Brunswick to the east, and North Greenbush to the south; to the west the town/city borders the Albany County town of Colonie, the villages of Menands and Green Island, and the metros/cities of Watervliet and Cohoes.
The town/city is longer than it is wide, with the southern part wider than the northern section of the town/city (the formerly separate town/city of Lansingburgh).
Troy is known as the "Collar City" due to its history in shirt, collar, and other textile production.
At one point Troy was also the second biggest producer of iron in the country, surpassed only by the town/city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Troy, like many older industrialized cities, has been battered by industrialized decline and the migration of jobs to the suburbs.
In addition to Russell Sage College (a elected college for women), Troy is also home to the 10,000-student Hudson Valley Community College (part of the State University of New York system), three private high schools: La Salle Institute (Catholic military-style), Emma Willard School (America's first girl's high school and a high-academic boarding and day school) and Catholic Central High School (a county-wide Catholic high school in Lansingburg section).
The Hudson and Mohawk rivers play their part, as does the Erie Canal and its lesser tributary canal systems, and later the barns s that linked Troy to the rest of the Empire State, New York City to the south, and Utica, New York, Syracuse, New York, Rochester, New York, Buffalo, New York and the myriad of emergent Great Lakes' metros/cities in the burgeoning United States.
Troy Public Library (to this day a private institution in service to the City of Troy) Rich with resplendent 19th-century architecture, especially in its Central Troy Historic District, it is no wonder that a several major movies have been filmed in Troy, including Ironweed, The Age of Innocence (Filmed partially in the Paine mansion), Scent of a Woman, The Bostonians, The Emperor's Club, and The Time Machine.
Troy's downtown historic landmarks include Frear's Troy Cash Bazaar, constructed on a steel transit framework clad in ornately carved white marble; the Corinthian Courthouse that is constructed of gray granite; the Troy Public Library, assembled in an elaborate Venetian palazzo style with high-relief carved white marble; the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, designed in the Second Empire style, with a recital hall with highly regarded acoustic properties.
As with many American cities, a several city blocks in downtown Troy were razed amid the 1970s as a part of an attempted urban renewal plan, which was never successfully executed, leaving still vacant areas in the vicinity of Federal Street.
The Troy Farmer's Market is a prominent event since 2000 that occurs every Saturday on River Street amid the summer, or in the Atrium of downtown Troy amid the winter.
"The Enchanted City - Troy, NY", A steampunk festival set in the historic streets of downtown Troy, (August, was previously in October) Troy Night Out, a monthly (last Friday) event in downtown Troy where retail establishments remain open Rockin' on the River, every Wednesday evening from June 18 through August 27 the Downtown Troy Business Improvement District and the City of Troy, presents a free, outside concert series known as "Rockin' on the River!"{{}} Troy Pig Out, One of the most loved summertime affairs in the Capital Region, the Troy Pig Out is a full day of fun where culinary competitors duke it out for best BBQ, and citizens flock to Riverfront park to taste some of the area's best food.{{}} In 2009, Troy ranked #15 on Newsmax magazine's list of the "Top 25 Most Uniquely American Cities and Towns", a piece written by current CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg.
In determining his ranking, Greenberg cited Troy's Flag Day Parade and called the town/city a "great example of American spirit". Troy's legislative branch consists of a town/city council composed of nine propel members: three at-large members who represent the entire city, and six precinct members who represent each of the six districts of Troy.
The current Troy City Council took office on January 1, 2016, and will serve until December 31, 2017.
The City of Troy is divided into thirty (30) election districts, also known as EDs.
Other political districts that make use of these EDs include City Council Districts, County Legislative Districts, State Assembly Districts, State Senate Districts, and U.S.
Two New York State Senate Districts, the 43rd and the 44th, each share a portion of their total areas with groups of EDs in Troy as follows: Two New York State Assembly Districts, the 107th and the 108th, each share a portion of their total areas with groups of EDs in Troy as follows: All other political districts that exist in Troy consist of the entire town/city all 30 EDs: Burden Iron Works, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 Burden Ironworks Office Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 Esek Bussey Firehouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Cannon Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 Central Troy Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 Church of the Holy Cross, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Fifth Avenue-Fulton Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 Fire Alarm, Telegraph and Police Signaling Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel and Crematorium, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 Glenwood, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Grand Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Halford Hayner Farmstead, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 Hart-Cluett Mansion home of the Rensselaer County Historical Society, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Haskell School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 Hudson Valley Community College formerly, the Troy Technical Institute, then the Hudson Valley Technical Institute Ranked as one of the Top 100 two-year universities in the country by Community College Week in 2004 Ilium Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 Henry Koon House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 Lansingburgh Academy, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 Lansingburgh Village Burial Ground, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 Mc - Carthy Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 Herman Melville House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 Kate Mullany House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 National State Bank Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 Northern River Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 Oakwood Cemetery positioned in North Troy, or Lansingburgh; many famous Americans are buried here, including Civil War Major General George Henry Thomas ("The Rock of Chickamauga") and Samuel Wilson, better known as "Uncle Sam", listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 Old Troy Hospital, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Osgood Firehouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 Poesten Kill Gorge Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 Powers Home, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 Proctor's Theater, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 10, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 Pumpkin House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 Chapel + Cultural Center at Rensselaer, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 unique multipurpose performing arts and theological center River Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 Searle, Gardner and Company Cuff and Collar Factory, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 Second Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 Barnabas Episcopal Church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 Paul's Episcopal Church Complex, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 Theta Xi Fraternity Chapter House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 Trinity Church Lansingburgh, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 Troy Gas Light Company Gasholder home one of several remaining examples of telescoping two-lift gasholder homes, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 Troy Public Library, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Troy Savings Bank Music Hall world-renowned as "an acoustic marvel", listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 Troy Waste Manufacturing Company Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 United States Post Office, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 United Waste Manufacturing Company Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 Van Zandt, Jacobs and Company Collar and Cuff Factory, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014 Gurley Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 Washington Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 Emma Willard School Oldest secondary school for girls in the United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 Winslow Chemical Laboratory, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 Dave Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter for The New York Times, born in Troy Richard Selzer (born 1928), surgeon and author, was born in Troy; 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