West Albany

Worth seeing in and around West Albany

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

   Public university system in the state of New York, United States

   4.5 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   New York State Capitol

   State capitol building of the U.S. state of New York

   3.8 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   State University of New York at Albany

   State university in Albany, New York

   3.7 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Diocese of Albany

   Diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States

   4 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   MVP Arena

   Indoor arena located in Albany, New York

   4.3 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Fort Orange

   Fort in New Netherland (now Albany, New York)

   4.8 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Dudley Observatory

   Observatory

   4.6 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   New York State Library

   Library in Albany, New York

   4.1 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

   Historic cathedral in Albany, New York, United States

   4.2 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    New York State Museum

    State museum of natural history, anthropology, and history in New York, United States

    4.1 km · 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.

Getting to West Albany

Airports

Albany (ALB), 7 km · Bradley (BDL), 122 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 195 km

Stations

Albany–Rensselaer, 5.6 km

• Hartford → West Albany

  136 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · $15–20
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• New York → West Albany

  220 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · $20–27
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• Syracuse → West Albany

  197 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · $18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Albany

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 West Albany. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in West Albany – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.