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Knox Street Historic District

The Knox Street Historic District is primarily located along one block of that street in the Park South neighborhood of Albany, New York, United States.

Knox Street Historic District
Knox Street Historic District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Knox Street Historic District is primarily located along one block of that street in the Park South neighborhood of Albany, New York, United States. Its contributing properties are several groups of attached rowhouses. The area was recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Knox Street Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    State University of New York

    The State University of New York is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. Led by chancellor John B. King, the SUNY system has 87,956 employees, including 29,427 faculty members, and some 7,660 degree and certificate programs overall and a $13.37 billion budget.

    1.8 km · public university system in the state of New York, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    New York State Capitol

    The New York State Capitol, the seat of the New York state government, is located in Albany, the capital city of the U.S. state of New York. The capitol building is part of the Empire State Plaza complex on State Street in Capitol Park.

    1.1 km · state capitol building of the U.S. state of New York · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Diocese of Albany

    The Diocese of Albany is a diocese of the Catholic Church in eastern New York in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany.

    1.3 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    MVP Arena

    MVP Arena is an indoor arena located in Albany, New York. It is configurable and can accommodate from 6,000 to 17,500 people, with a maximum seating capacity of 15,500 for sporting events.

    1.4 km · Indoor arena located in Albany, New York · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Fort Orange

    Fort Orange was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, New York developed near this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearby Castle Island and served as a trading post until 1617 or 1618, when it was abandoned due to frequent flooding.

    1.9 km · fort in New Netherland (now Albany, New York) · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    New York State Library

    The New York State Library is a research library in Albany, New York, United States. It was established in 1818 to serve the state government of New York and is part of the New York State Education Department.

    900 m · library in Albany, New York · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

    The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic church near the Mansion District in Albany, New York in the United States. Built in the period of the 1848–1852, it is the mother church of the Diocese of Albany.

    1.1 km · historic cathedral in Albany, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    New York State Museum

    The New York State Museum is a research-backed institution in Albany, New York, United States. It is located on Madison Avenue, attached to the south side of the Empire State Plaza, facing onto the plaza and towards the New York State Capitol.

    900 m · state museum of natural history, anthropology, and history in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Empire State Plaza

    The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York. The complex was built between 1965 and 1976 at an estimated total cost of $2 billion.

    900 m · building complex in Albany, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Albany City Hall

    Albany City Hall is the seat of government of the city of Albany, New York, United States. It houses the office of the mayor, the Common Council chamber, the city and traffic courts, as well as other city services.

    1.3 km · town hall in Albany, New York · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Knox Street Historic District

Airports
Albany (ALB), 11 km · Bradley (BDL), 119 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 197 km
Stations
Albany–Rensselaer, 2.7 km
  • Hartford → Knox Street Historic District
    38 km · quickest by road, 51 min · $3.5–4.5
  • New York → Knox Street Historic District
    195 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · $18–25
  • Syracuse → Knox Street Historic District
    311 km · quickest by road, 5h 44m · $29–40
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Knox Street Historic District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Knox Street Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextVisitors to the Albany area should consider day trips to destinations in the Berkshires of western Mass., including Tanglewood, Mass MoCA, and the Clark Art Institute.

From Wikivoyage: Albany (New York), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    229 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    428 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,829 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,838 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,955 km

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Around it

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