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Visit Downtown Schenectady
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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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E.J. Ray Acoustic
June 10, 6:30pm
Josh & Justin
June 9, 7pm
Ill Funk
June 10, 9pm
Grand Central Station
June 11, 9pm
HOEDOWN Concert Series
True Grit Outlaws
June 15, 6-9pm
Patrick Sharrow
June 9, 5pm
Tailspin
June 10, 9pm
The Block
June 11, 9:30pm
Lecco Morris & Jeff Nania: Patio Jam
June 9, 6pm
Ace & Luke
June 9, 7-10pm
Carla Metz & Larry Acunto
June 10, 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 light dessert that can be used for
a bridal or baby shower, or even for a
family dinner.
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Nominate a Hometown Heroes Banner Honoree
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The Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) and City of Schenectady are looking for nominations for the second round of banners to be installed in July. Banners will be displayed on light poles along State Street and around City Hall in downtown until mid-November (just after Veterans Day).
Available banners have already been paid for by corporate sponsors! There is no cost other than the time required to gather information and submit your nomination. Do you know some who meets the criteria?
Submit the required information to Colleen Merays at the DSIC by
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| Jazz on Jay Concert Series |
 June 9, Noon-1:30pm
Jay Street Marketplace
This week, Jazz on Jay features the
HaNG TRio. 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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| Schenectady City Living Tour & H.O.M.E.S. Fair |
Mark Your Calendar!
June 26, 10am-2pm
Downtown & Citywide
Schenectady's annual citywide Open House & H.O.M.E.S. Fair has a new component for 2016:
The Downtown Residential Tour!
Not only will you be able to tour a variety of neighborhood homes in Schenectady for purchase, but several new residential developments in Downtown Schenectady will showcase their upscale apartments and amenities. The self-guided tour will begin at the Jay Street Marketplace, where you can pick up maps. A variety of vendors will also be on hand for you to gather resources and ask questions about home buying.
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On The Stage
Annual brew festival with craft beer & bourbon samplings, two great bands, and BBQ food trucks. Your ticket includes samplings and a $5 voucher to the food truck of your choice. Also play Cornhole, win prizes, sample some jerky and browse cigars from That's a Great Cigar Shoppe.
Mopco Improvapalooza - June 10, 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.
 Myers Annual Dance Concert - June 11, 7:30pm
Mainstage - With guest artists from Northeast Ballet Co. under the artistic direction of Darlene Myers.
Mainstage
- Featuring Andrew Krystopolski
playing
"Goldie," Proctors' mighty Wurlitzer Organ.
On The Screen
GE Theatre - Col. Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) leads a UK-based,
top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya.
GE Theatre - The true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics.
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June 11, 1-2:30pm
128 Jay Street
Esther Willison reading and signing
Askew.
June 11, 3-6pm
Schenectady YMCA, 433 State Street
Make every move count for this charity event.
A benefit for Miracle on Craig Street.
Capoccia Wine Lounge -
Grand Opening!
June 15, 5pm
508 State Street
Ribbon cutting at 5pm, live music at 6pm, with great drinks and food.
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 Sponsors: Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority; Galesi Group.
Silver Sponsors: Gleason, Dunn, Walsh & O'Shea; Transfinder; TW&A Construction Management.
Buy Tickets
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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| 2016 Visitor & Dining Guides |
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| miSci (museum of innovation & science) |
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Museum Hours: Mon-Sat: 9am-5pm, Sun: 12-5pm
First class starts July 11. Hands on learning for children entering kindergarten through 12 grade. Classes are 1 week long and run from 9am-3:30pm. Registration and prepayment required.
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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