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19 unusual facts about Schenectady, New York


Brian Stratton

McNulty's predecessor was Stratton's father and fellow former mayor of Schenectady, Samuel S. Stratton.

Brian U. Stratton (born 6 September 1957) is a former mayor of Schenectady, New York.

Edward F. Lonergan

Edward Lonergan graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1981, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

Erik Wemple

He was raised in Schenectady, New York and attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, graduating in 1986.

Frank Crowther

In 1912, Crowther moved to Schenectady, New York and continued the practice of his profession until elected to Congress; he was president of the common council of Schenectady in 1917 and 1918, and elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1919 to January 3, 1943.

Frank Parker Day

Returning to Canada, he embarked on an academic career, teaching English at the University of New Brunswick, before being appointed president of Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Frank Taberski

Frank Taberski (1889–1941) was a professional pocket billiards champion from Schenectady, New York.

Jeff Coplon

Jeff Coplon (born 1951, in Schenectady, New York) is an American journalist and author.

Killead

James Gordon was born in the parish of Killead on October 31, 1739, attended local schools and emigrated to the United States in 1758, settling in Schenectady, New York.

Lee Davenport

Lee Losee Davenport was born on December 31, 1915, in Schenectady, New York.

Mack Supronowicz

A native of Schenectady, New York, Supronowicz was 6 foot, 1 inch, and 180 pounds.

Mary Elizabeth Parker

Mary Elizabeth Parker (b. Schenectady, New York) is an American poet.

Ray Nelson

Nelson was born October 3, 1931 in Schenectady, New York, the son of Walter Hughes Nelson and Marie Reed.

Robert Traill Spence Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell (born in Boston, Massachusetts, 8 October 1816; died in Schenectady, New York, 12 September 1891) was a clergyman.

In 1873 he became professor of the Latin language and literature in Union College, Schenectady, New York, and discharged the duties of that department for six years.

Roland W. Schmitt

From 1978-1986, he directed the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York.

Simon Youl

As a professional player, Youl won two top-level singles titles (at Schenectady in 1989, and Singapore in 1992), and two tour doubles titles (Casablanca in 1990, and Bucharest in 1994).

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Thomson-Houston later merged with the Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, to form the General Electric Company in 1892, with plants in Lynn and Schenectady, both of which remain to this day as the two original GE factories.

White Bay Power Station

Owing to the delay of the third Dick, Kerr unit, a single Curtis 7.5 MW turbo-alternator from General Electric of Schenectady, New York, USA was brought into temporary use in 1917 in the unit number four position.


Borden Chase

Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays.

Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The springs at Bath, in Bristol Township, were popular among wealthy Philadelphians for a while, but lost popularity to the ones in Saratoga, New York.

Cedar Lake, New Jersey

Many wealthy New Yorkers vacationed at the lake during weekends, including prominent figures such as Babe Ruth, who stayed in a house on the West Side of the lake.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Charles Malik Whitfield

Charles Malik Whitfield (born August 1, 1972) is an American actor from The Bronx, New York City, New York.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Damien Dernoncourt

He oversees an international team of 1500 individuals across the company’s facilities in Bali, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New York.

Donwan Harrell

Donwan Harrell is founder and creative director of the New York-based luxury denim line PRPS.

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Edward Francis Hutton

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Gedney family

Joshua Gedney and his brother Joseph were forced to change their names to Gidney and to flee from New York to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783.

Genya Turovskaya

Turovskaya lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is an associate editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.

Hadestown

While most of the recording was produced by Mr. Sickafoose at Brooklyn Recording Studio in New York, the lead vocals were often produced elsewhere in the U.S..

Hector, Minnesota

Hector, New York was named after the bravest of the ancient Trojan warriors whose story is an important part of Homer’s epic, “Iliad”.

Indiana Limestone

New Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, opened in 2009, extensively uses Indiana limestone paneling on its exterior facade.

Institute of Cultural Inquiry

The bottles have been publicly displayed at or outside such venues as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Museum (New York), and the New York Public Library.

Jacob Worth

Jacob Worth (May 1, 1838 New York City – February 21, 1905 Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas) was an American politician from New York.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

Judith Crist

Crist was born Judith Klein in The Bronx, borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Helen (née Schoenberg), a librarian, and Solomon Klein, a manufacturing jeweler.

Ken Kirzinger

He appeared in 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a New York cook who gets in Jason's way while pursuing Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) and Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves).

Maine Central class K 0-6-0

World War I caused 1918 production to be split between builders numbers 57883 and 57884 from Schenectady, and 59865 and 59866 from ALCO's Pittsburgh plant.

Meaghan Jarensky

Meaghan Jarensky Castaldi is a beauty queen from The Bronx, New York who has competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1998 he was elected as Member of the International Training Standards and Policy Review Committee of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Moisant Aviation School

An instructor at the school, Albert Jewell disappeared on 13 October 1913 on flight from the Hempstead airfield to Oakwood, Staten Island, NY to take part in an air race; he is assumed to have come down at sea off the south shore of Long Island.

National Trails System

You can experience the subtle beauties of the southern wetlands and Gulf Coast on the Florida Trail or wander the North Woods from New York to Minnesota on the North Country Trail or experience the vast diversity of landscapes of the southwest on the Arizona National Scenic Trail.

New York Golden Gloves

Named for the small golden gloves given out to the winners of each weight category, the New York Golden Gloves continued for decades under the sponsorship of the New York Daily News.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

After it appeared he might run unopposed in the general election, on April 2 Republican Dale Sweetland, coming off a narrowly unsuccessful September 2007 bid for Onondaga County Executive, announced he'd oppose Maffei.

NORAD Tracks Santa

The program is in the tradition of the September 1897 editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in the New York Sun.

Operation Gyroscope

Before Gyroscope, most, if not all, troops left on ships for Germany from New York.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Richard Boleslawski

Among his students were Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, who were all founding members of the Group Theatre (1931–1940), the first American acting ensemble to utilize Stanislavski's techniques.

Robert Foster Kennedy

After the war he worked in the Bellevue Hospital, New York, where one of his colleagues was Samuel Kinnier Wilson.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Sabiha Al Khemir

Between 1991–1992 Al Khemir was a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York for the exhibition ‘Al-Andalus: Islamic Arts of Spain.’ She traveled in Europe and North Africa in search of objects and history that would provide the basis for the show.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

Sean Eldridge

In early 2013, he filed paperwork to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014, challenging incumbent Chris Gibson in New York's 19th congressional district.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

The Black Atlantic

In February, 2008, The Black Atlantic started recording their album in a cabin owned by van der Velde’s in-laws, located in the small town of Saranac Lake, in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

Thompson Memorial Library

The window comes from the studios of Messrs. John Hardman & Company of Birmingham, England, and of the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York, their U.S. representatives.

U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men

Ultimately, factories are established in many parts of the world, but in one story, "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray", the main factory is said to be located in Schenectady, New York.

Valeria Gastaldi

She started singing early in life, and later studied in Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.

West Concord, Minnesota

The early settlers of the area were from New England, New York or Pennsylvania and West Concord, and well as Concord Township which surrounds it, were named after Concord, New Hampshire.

William Reed Business Media

As well as British offices in Crawley and London, the company has offices in Montpellier, France and New York, United States.

WQXR-FM

a weekly Lutheran service from the previous week on Sunday morning, as well as Sunday morning services, alternately, from two Unitarian churches, the Community Church and All Souls Church (New York).

Yashira Jordán

In 2004 Jordán spent time in New York, Washington DC and Mexico City, training in various workshops and courses under the direction of American and Mexican filmmakers.