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LODGING
Did you know that Downtown Schenectady offers many types of lodging? Stay at a quaint bed & breakfast or an elegant boutique hotel. If a modern facility is your preference, choose a name-brand hotel with all the amenities.
Browse our shops, restaurants, services, lodging, attractions, transportation & parking.
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Thursdays, 9:30am-1:30pm
Outside Around City Hall |
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Sundays, 10am - 2pm
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Outside
Around City Hall
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Enjoy this festive marketplace with weekly entertainment and more than 70 regional vendors.
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Music & Entertainment
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Alyssa Yeager
June 4, 6:30pm
Joel Fisher
June 2, 7pm
The Audiostars
June 3, 9pm
The Deadbeats
June 4, 9pm
HOEDOWN Concert Series
Coming Soon!
Robb Fleming
June 2, 6-9pm
TS Ensemble
June 3, 8pm
UFC Fight #199
June 4, 8pm
Melissa Sgambulerri Trio
June 9, 8pm
Stu Hamm
June 3, 7:30pm
Ralph LaLama/Lee Russo Quartet
June 4, 8pm
Keith Pray Big Band
June 7, 8pm
Tommy Verrigni
June 2, 7-10pm
Eileen Mack & Peg Delaney
June 3, 7-10pm
Check Out All of
Downtown Schenectady's
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The Downtown Dish
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This week, we have a fun recipe that you can cook on the grill
at home or over the campfire in the great outdoors.
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| 2016 Hometown Heroes Banners |
The Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) and City of Schenectady unveiled new 2016 Hometown Heroes banners Wednesday during a ceremony at downtown's Schenectady Armory. A total of 26 banners have been installed in round one. During the ceremony, banners honoring Schenectady's Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps service members were unveiled one-by-one by sponsors and honorees in attendance. A second round of banners will be installed in early July. More...
- Download a map of banner locations & honoree bios
- View a gallery of images on Facebook |
| Jazz on Jay Concert Series |
 Begins June 2, Noon-1:30pm
Jay Street Marketplace
The 2016 Jazz on Jay season kicks off with
Jeanne O'Connor & Azzaam Hameed. This free outdoor jazz series takes place Thursday afternoons through September 1 on the Jay Street Marketplace (with a rain location at Robb Alley inside Proctors). Grab lunch at one of our great downtown
eateries and work in a bit of
shopping before or after the concert!
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| Historic Vale Park Weenie Roast |
 June 3, 11:30am-1pm
Historic Vale Park, Nott Terrace
Come and
get acquainted with
Vale Park and have lunch from Mike's Hot Dogs! Park in the former Castelo's restaurant parking lot; lunch will be just inside the park's gates on Nott Terrace. Hosted by the Vale Park Task Force.
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| 2016 Kids' Arts Festival |
 June 4, Noon-4pm
Outside Around City Hall
The annual Kids' Arts Festival features a variety of entertainment, including The Puppet People, Mike Purcell, Incredible Larry, Tip the Clown, Mr. Twisty, and many more. Enjoy more than 40 FREE, hands-on art activities for pre-school and young school age children. Bring your kids and/or grandkids for a fun filled afternoon. (Will move inside City Hall if it rains.)
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On The Stage
Mopco Improvapalooza - June 3, 8pm 
Education Center - Features the region's best up-and-coming improvisors and improv groups together with Mopco for five evenings of rip-roaring improv creativity.
Merritt Dance Center - June 4, 6pm
Mainstage - The performance will include a variety of dance routines. Highlights will include performances from the competition teams and a mini musical production of "Seussical the Musical."
The Dance Department's 16th Annual Production - June 5, 2pm 
Mainstage - "Fire Under My Feet"- Brings the audience through an underwater wonderland with beautiful dancers and beautiful costumes.
On The Screen
GE Theatre - Presented by It Came From Schenectady: The story of the renegade sound and visions of The Residents is clouded in mystery. Get an inside look this incredibly private collective with unprecedented access to their archives and their recent 40th anniversary tour.
GE Theatre - Caleb and Camille Fang are a couple famous for public stunts/comedy skits featuring their children. Now adults with successful showbiz careers, the two are estranged from their parents and lament their exploitation as kids.
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June 4, 10am
History of Schenectady Faith Walking Tour:
Walk around the Stockade neighborhood discussing the past and present religions in the Stockade with stops inside local churches.
June 5, 11am
128 Jay Street
Teri Dunn Chace signing
Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit.
June 5, 2pm
World War I & Schenectady: Tom Kelly retired history professor will give a narrated tour and talk about Doughboys, airman, sanitary trains and more of the "Great War."
Cynthia Seacord of the City of Schenectady Archives will speak on the Pictorial History of Schenectady. Presented by Schenectady County Department of Senior & Long Term Care Services.
June 22, 5:30-7:30pm
Transfinder, 440 State Street
Join business and community leaders for an after-work gathering to support the highly successful
Schenectady Ambassadors program. Enjoy drinks, hors d'oeuvres, fine cigars and conversation on the top-floor terrace of Transfinder's headquarters overlooking Downtown Schenectady. Gold Sponsor: Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority. Silver Sponsors: Gleason, Dunn, Walsh & O'Shea; Transfinder.
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The Schenectady County Convention and Visitors Bureau will publish a Fall-Winter 2016-2017 edition of a
Visit Greater Schenectady County Guide. Distribution will be outside the area, to attract tourists to the County. Companies wishing to advertise should contact Art Fredette at 729-9060 or email
visitschenectadyguide@gmail.com. The ad deadline is July 15.
 Mopco has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise $12,000 for the renovation of their new theater in Downtown Schenectady.
The group recently bought the brick firehouse at 10 North Jay St. in Downtown Schenectady's Little Italy with conventional funding, plus a grant from the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority.
Mopco will transform the first floor of the building into a 70-seat theater for improv, music and film.
Learn more!
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We are pleased to announce that brand new 2016 versions of the Downtown Schenectady Visitor Guide & Map and Schenectady Dining Guide
are now available. If you would like FREE copies for your place of business or for an upcoming local event, please let us know by calling 377-9430 or emailing us at info@downtownschenectady.org and we will reserve some for you. |
| miSci (museum of innovation & science) |
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Museum Hours: Mon-Sat: 9am-5pm, Sun: 12-5pm
Opens this Saturday
Opening June 4
Meet a 22-foot-long T-Rex, tremble at a growling pair of dueling dinos, watch a dinosaur soar above you, and view a full nest of eggs ready to hatch. Discover 10 animatronic dinosaur throughout the museum. Learn all about these prehistoric creatures in the dino dig site, fossil rubbing stations, and other hands on discovery areas.
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| Schenectady County Public Library Notes |
 Central Library
99 Clinton Street
Monday - Thursday: 9am - 8pm
Friday - Saturday: 9am - 5pm
Sunday: 1 - 5pm
600 Union Street
Throughout June: Mass market paperbacks - 4/$1.00
All proceeds support Schenectady County Public Library
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