McKownville
McKownville is a hamlet in the town of Guilderland, Albany County, New York, United States.
McKownville is a hamlet in the town of Guilderland, Albany County, New York, United States. It lies along the eastern border of the town with the city of Albany. McKownville is a heavily developed suburb of Albany and is home to many strip malls, shopping centers, and a portion of the University at Albany, SUNY and is bisected by U.S. Route 20. McKownville is named for John McKown and family, early settlers from the late 18th century.
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Worth seeing in and around McKownville
9 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.
- 01State University of New York at Albany
The State University of New York at Albany is a public research university in Albany, New York, United States. Founded in 1844, it is one of four "university centers" of the State University of New York system, and the most senior by date of founding.
1.1 km · state university in Albany, New York · Wikipedia - 02Excelsior College
Excelsior University is a private online university in Albany, New York. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and comprises two schools: the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
3.8 km · private online university in the United States · Wikipedia - 03Bob Ford Field
Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium is a stadium in Albany, New York, owned and operated by the University at Albany. The stadium serves as home venue to the school's football team, as well as their men's and women's soccer, and women's field hockey programs.
700 m · stadium in Albany, NY, USA · Wikipedia - 04Buckingham Lake
Buckingham Lake, commonly referred to as Buckingham Pond or Rafts Pond, is a body of water located in a residential area of Albany, New York. It has a surface area of 5 acres and a mean depth of three feet.
2.9 km · lake in United States of America · Wikipedia - 05College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
The College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering is part of the University at Albany, SUNY in Albany, New York. Founded in 2004 at the University at Albany, SUNY, the college underwent rapid expansion in the late-2000s and early-2010s before merging with the SUNY Institute of Technology in 2014.
1.3 km · college of nanotechnology at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute campus in Albany, New York · Wikipedia - 06Q5148437
Colonie Center is a shopping mall located in Roessleville, New York, a suburb of Albany, at the intersection of Central Avenue, Wolf Road, and Interstate 87. Opening in 1966, it was the first enclosed shopping mall in New York's Capital Region.
3.7 km · shopping mall in New York, United States · Wikipedia - 07Crossgates Commons
Crossgates Commons is a large shopping plaza in Albany, New York along Washington Avenue Extension. It is owned and managed by Pyramid Management Group, Inc., who also own and manage the nearby Crossgates Mall.
2.3 km · Shopping center in Albany, NY · Wikipedia - 08Crossgates Mall
Crossgates Mall is an enclosed, super-regional shopping mall located in the Albany, New York suburb of Guilderland. It is the largest indoor shopping center in the Capital District, and the third largest in the State of New York.
2 km · Shopping mall based in Albany, NY · Wikipedia - 09Emmaus United Methodist Church
Emmaus United Methodist Church, originally built as Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, two of five names it has gone by in its existence, is located at Morris and West Lawrence streets in Albany, New York, United States. It is a brick Collegiate Gothic building constructed in the early 20th century.
3.8 km · church building in Albany, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to McKownville
- Airports
- Albany (ALB), 8 km · Bradley (BDL), 125 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 191 km
- Hartford → McKownville140 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · $15–21
- New York → McKownville220 km · quickest by road, 4h · $20–27
- Syracuse → McKownville192 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · $18–24
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for McKownville
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 McKownville. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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