Your Guide to the Albany–Capital Region

New York's state capital anchors the Capital Region — a five-county metro of 900,000 at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. Discover Albany — home to the New York State Capitol, the Empire State Plaza, the University at Albany (SUNY), the College of Saint Rose, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, Union College in Schenectady, Saratoga Race Course and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the GlobalFoundries semiconductor fab in Malta, the Albany-Rensselaer Amtrak station (9th-busiest in the nation), and the historic Erie and Champlain Canal heritage of the Hudson-Mohawk confluence.