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| etymology = Named for the Scottish [[Duke of Albany]], whose title comes from the Gaelic name for Scotland: ''[[Alba]]''
| motto = Assiduity{{efn|In this instance, ''assiduity'', "the quality of acting with constant and careful attention."<ref name=nearing>{{cite news |title=Three Cheers for the Orange, White, and Blue |author=Nearing, Brian |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |work=Times Union (Albany) |date=November 30, 2004 |page=B1 |url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6265102 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all |access-date=August 4, 2010 |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430030209/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6265102 }}</ref>|group=Note}}
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| caption2 = State Quad at [[SUNY Albany]]
| image3 = Albany Houses.jpg
| alt3 = Helderberg Neighborhood
| caption3 = [[Helderberg, Albany, New York|Helderberg neighborhood]]
| image4 = North Pearl Street Albany.jpg
| alt4 = North Pearl Street
| caption4 = [[Pearl Street (Albany)|North Pearl Street]]
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| alt5 = Palace Theater
| caption5 = [[Palace Theatre (Albany, New York)|Palace Theatre]]
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| elevation_footnotes = <ref name=USGS>{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/gaz-record/977310 |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}}</ref>{{Use American English|date=January 2019}}
| elevation_max_point = [[Loudonville, New York|Loudonville]]{{efn|On Birch Hill Road near Loudonville Reservoir.}}
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| population_est = 101,228 ([[List of United States cities by population|US: 331st]])
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Permanent European claims began when Englishman [[Henry Hudson]], exploring for the [[Dutch East India Company]] on the ''[[Half Moon (ship)|Half Moon]]'' ({{Lang-nl|Halve Maen}}), reached the area in 1609, claiming it for the [[Dutch Republic|United Netherlands]].<ref>"[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/274681/Henry-Hudson Henry Hudson]". (2010). ''Britannica''. Retrieved June 27, 2010.</ref> In 1614, [[Hendrick Christiaensen]] built [[Fort Nassau (North River)|Fort Nassau]] on Castle Island (now called [[Port of Albany–Rensselaer|Port of Albany]]), in the Hudson River. The fort acted as a [[Fur trade|fur-trading]] post and was the first documented European structure in present-day Albany. Commencement of the fur trade provoked hostility from the [[Canada, New France|French colony in Canada]] and among the natives, all of whom vied to control the trade. In 1618, a flood ruined Fort Nassau, but the Dutch replaced it with [[Fort Orange (New Netherland)|Fort Orange]] on the mainland in 1624.<ref name="howell775">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA775|title=Bi-centennial History of Albany|last1=Howell|first1=George Rogers|year=1886|page=775}}</ref> Both forts were named in honor of the leading family of the Dutch Revolt, members of the [[House of Orange-Nassau]].<ref name="venema13">Venema (2003), p. 13</ref> Fort Orange and the surrounding area were incorporated as the village of ''[[Beverwijck]]'' ({{Lang-en|Beaverwick or Beaver District}}) in 1652,<ref name="rittner7">Rittner (2002), p. 7</ref><ref name="venema12">Venema (2003), p. 12</ref> and the city of Albany in 1686. In these early decades of trade, the Dutch, Mohican, and Mohawk developed relations that reflected differences among their three cultures.<ref>[http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/staffpubs/docs/20360.pdf James Wesley Bradley, ''Before Albany: An Archaeology of Native-Dutch Relations in the Capital Region 1660-1664''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223203201/http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/staffpubs/docs/20360.pdf |date=December 23, 2014 }}, Albany: University of the State of New York, 2007, pp. 2-6</ref>
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Albany is one of the [[List of North American settlements by year of foundation|oldest surviving European settlements]] from the original [[Thirteen Colonies]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Larnard, J.N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTcFAAAAIAAJ&q=french%20fort%201540%20albany&pg=PA195|title=The New Larned History for Ready Reference and Research|publisher=C.A. Nichols Publishing Company|year=1922|editor=Donald E. Smith|volume=I (A-Bak)|page=195}}</ref> and the longest continuously chartered city in the United States.{{efn|The ''Dongan Charter'' incorporated Albany three months after [[New York City]]'s charter was ratified. However, the latter forfeited its charter during [[Leisler's Rebellion]], making Albany's the oldest effective charter in the country.<ref name=Thacher>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MrwZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA137|title=Proceedings of the Conference for Good City Government and the Annual ...|last1=League|first1=National Municipal|year=1896}}</ref><ref name = whish5>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DqCeHOJyK0wC&pg=PA5|title=Albany Guide Book|year=1917|last1=Whish|first1=John D.}}</ref>|group=Note}} When [[New Netherland]] was captured by the [[Kingdom of England|English]] in 1664, the name was changed from ''Beverwijck'' to ''Albany'' in honor of the [[Duke of Albany]] (later James II).<ref name="brodhead744">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historystatenew02brodgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/historystatenew02brodgoog/page/n772 744]|title=History of the State of New York|publisher=Harper & Brothers|last1=Brodhead|first1=John Romeyn|year=1874}}</ref>{{efn|[[James II of England|James Stuart]] (1633–1701), brother and successor of [[Charles II of England|Charles II]], was both the [[Duke of York]] and [[Duke of Albany]] before being crowned king in 1685. His title of Duke of York is the source of the name of the [[province of New York]].<ref name=brodhead744/>|group=Note}} Duke of Albany was a [[Peerage of Scotland|Scottish title]] given since 1398, generally to a younger son of the [[List of Scottish monarchs|King of Scots]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Albany, Dukes of |volume= 1 | pages = 487–489, line two|quote=The title of duke of Albany was first bestowed in 1398....}}</ref> The name is ultimately derived from ''[[Alba]]'', the [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] name for Scotland.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Historie of Scotland |last=Leslie |first=Jhone |translator=James Dalrymple |editor=E.G. Cody |publisher=William Blackwood and Sons |year=1888 |page=354 |location=Edinburgh |oclc=3217086 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56RHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA354}}</ref> The Dutch briefly regained Albany in August 1673 and renamed the city ''Willemstadt''; the English took permanent possession in 1674 with the [[Treaty of Westminster (1674)|Treaty of Westminster]].<ref name="reynolds72">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNU0AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA72|title=Albany Chronicles|year=1906}}</ref> On November 1, 1683, the [[Province of New York]] was split into counties, with [[Albany County, New York|Albany County]] being the largest: it included all of present New York State north of [[Dutchess County, New York|Dutchess]] and [[Ulster County, New York|Ulster]] Counties in addition to present-day [[Bennington County, Vermont]], theoretically stretching west to the Pacific Ocean;<ref name="NYATLAS">Thorne, Kathryn Ford, Compiler & Long, John H., Editor: ''New York Atlas of Historical County Boundaries''; The Newbury Library; 1993.</ref><ref>{{cite map |title=[[:File:A Map of the Provinces of New York and New Jersey, with a part of Pennsylvania and the Province of Quebec. LOC 74692641 (cropped).jpg|A Map of the Provinces of New-York and New-Jersey, with a Part of Pennsylvania and the Province of Quebec]] |publisher=Matthew Albert Lotter |cartography=[[Claude Joseph Sauthier]] |scale=ca. 1:1,040,000 |year=1777}}</ref> Albany became the [[county seat]].<ref name="french155">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R_zHwh4xByQC|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R_zHwh4xByQC/page/n161 155]|title=Gazetteer of the State of New York|publisher=R. Pearsall Smith|last1=French|first1=John Homer|year=1860}}</ref> Albany was formally chartered as a municipality by [[Province of New York|provincial Governor]] [[Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick|Thomas Dongan]] on July 22, 1686. The [[Dongan Charter]] was virtually identical in content to the charter awarded to the city of New York three months earlier.<ref name="Charter">{{cite web |title = The Dongan Charter |publisher = New York State Museum |access-date = November 23, 2008 |url = http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/charter.html |archive-date = October 12, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081012114158/http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/charter.html |url-status = dead }}</ref> Dongan created Albany as a strip of land {{convert|1|mi|km}} wide and {{convert|16|mi|km}} long.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNU0AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA84|title=Albany Chronicles|year=1906}}</ref> Over the years Albany would lose much of the land to the west and [[Municipal annexation|annex]] land to the north and south. At this point, Albany had a population of about 500 people.<ref name="pop" />
In 1754, representatives of seven [[British North America]]n colonies met in the ''[[Stadt Huys]]'', Albany's [[Albany City Hall|city hall]], for the [[Albany Congress]]; [[Benjamin Franklin]] of [[Province of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] presented the [[Albany Plan of Union]] there, which was the first formal proposal to unite the colonies.<ref name=rittner22>Rittner (2002), p. 22</ref> Although it was never adopted by [[Parliament of Great Britain|Parliament]], it was an important precursor to the [[United States Constitution]].<ref name=mceneny12>McEneny (2006), p. 12</ref>{{efn|The Plan of Union's original intention was to unite the colonies in defense against aggressions of the French to the north; it was not an attempt to become independent from the auspices of the British crown.<ref name=mceneny12/>|group=Note}} The same year, the [[French and Indian War]], the fourth in a [[French and Indian Wars|series of wars]] dating back to 1689, began. It ended in 1763 with [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|French defeat]], resolving a situation that had been a constant threat to Albany and held back its growth.<ref name=mceneny56>McEneny (2006), p. 56</ref> In 1775, with the colonies in the midst of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], the ''Stadt Huys'' became home to the Albany [[Committee of Correspondence]] (the political arm of the local revolutionary movement), which took over operation of Albany's government and eventually expanded its power to control all of [[Albany County, New York|Albany County]]. [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Tories]] and prisoners of war were often jailed in the ''Stadt Huys'' alongside common criminals.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Committee of Correspondence |publisher=New York State Museum |last=Bielinski |first=Stefan |date=March 8, 2010 |access-date=August 19, 2010 |url=http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/coc.html |archive-date=August 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818044657/http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/coc.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1776, Albany native [[Philip Livingston]] signed the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] at [[Independence Hall]] in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Livingston, Philip (1716–1778) |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |publisher=United States Congress |access-date=October 9, 2009 |date= |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000369}}</ref>▼
During and after the Revolutionary War, Albany County saw a great increase in real estate transactions. After [[Horatio Gates]] defeated [[John Burgoyne]] at [[Battle of Saratoga|Saratoga]] in 1777, the upper [[Hudson Valley]] was generally at peace as the war raged on elsewhere. Prosperity was soon seen all over [[Upstate New York]]. Migrants from Vermont and Connecticut began flowing in, noting the advantages of living on the Hudson and trading at Albany, while being only a few days' sail from New York City.<ref name=anderson68>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/landmarksofrenss00ande#page/n91/mode/2up|title=Landmarks of Rensselaer county, New York|publisher=Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & company|year=1897}}</ref> Albany reported a population of 3,498 in the [[1790 United States Census|first national census]] in 1790, an increase of almost 700% since its chartering.<ref name=pop>{{cite web|title=How a City Worked: Occupations in Colonial Albany|publisher=New York State Museum|access-date=January 10, 2009|url=http://www.nnp.org/nnp/publications/ABAFB/4.4.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120005559/http://www.nnp.org/nnp/publications/ABAFB/4.4.pdf|archive-date=November 20, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>▼
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▲During and after the Revolutionary War, Albany County saw a great increase in real estate transactions. After [[Horatio Gates]] defeated [[John Burgoyne]] at [[Battle of Saratoga|Saratoga]] in 1777, the upper [[Hudson Valley]] was generally at peace as the war raged on elsewhere. Prosperity was soon seen all over [[Upstate New York]]. Migrants from Vermont and Connecticut began flowing in, noting the advantages of living on the Hudson and trading at Albany, while being only a few days' sail from New York City.<ref name=anderson68>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/landmarksofrenss00ande#page/n91/mode/2up|title=Landmarks of Rensselaer county, New York|publisher=Syracuse,
On November 17, 1793, fire broke out at a stable belonging to [[Leonard Gansevoort]], destroying 26 homes on Broadway, Maiden Lane, James Street, and State Street. Three were arrested and charged with [[arson]]: Pompey, a man enslaved by Matthew Visscher; Dinah, a 14-year-old girl enslaved by [[Volkert P. Douw]]; and Bet, a 12-year-old girl enslaved by [[Philip S. Van Rensselaer]]. On January 6, 1794, the three were sentenced to death. [[Governor George Clinton]] issued a temporary stay of execution, but Dinah and Bet were executed by hanging on March 14, and Pompey on April 11, 1794.<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 2783709|title = Black Arson in Albany, New York: November 1793|journal = Journal of Black Studies|volume = 7|issue = 3|pages = 301–312|last1 = Gerlach|first1 = Don R.|year = 1977|doi = 10.1177/002193477700700304|s2cid = 220416464}}</ref>
In 1797, the [[List of capitals in the United States|state capital]] was moved permanently to Albany. From [[List of U.S. states by date of statehood|statehood]] to this date, the [[New York State Legislature|Legislature]] had frequently moved the state capital between Albany, [[Kingston, New York|Kingston]], [[Poughkeepsie, New York|Poughkeepsie]], and [[New York City|the city of New York]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Stevens |first=John Austin |title=The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries |publisher=Historical Publication Co |year=1886 |page=124 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7hnlOojVAEC&pg=RA1-PA124}}</ref> Albany is the tenth-oldest state capital in the United States and the second-oldest city that is a state capital, after [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]].<ref>Rittner (2002), back cover</ref>
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===City of immigrants===
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{{blockquote|Dutch and Yankee, German and Irish, Polish and Italian, black and Chinese—over the centuries Albany's heritage has reflected a succession of immigrant nationalities. Its streets have echoed with a dozen languages, its neighborhoods adapting to the distinctive life-style and changing economic fortunes of each new group.<ref name=mceneny102>McEneny (2006), p. 102</ref>}}
Until after the Revolution, Albany's population consisted mostly of ethnic Dutch descendants. Settlers migrating from New England tipped the balance toward British ethnicity in the early 19th century.<ref name="mceneny103">McEneny (2006), p. 103</ref> Jobs on the turnpikes, canals, and railroads attracted floods of [[Irish American|Irish immigrants]] in the early 19th century, especially in the 1840s during the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]], solidifying the city's Irish base. [[Michael N. Nolan|Michael Nolan]] became Albany's first [[Irish Catholic]] mayor in 1878,<ref>{{cite web|title=Michael N. Nolan|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000126|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=2023-02-18}}</ref> two years before Boston.<ref name="mceneny104">McEneny (2006), p. 104</ref> [[Polish American|Polish]] and [[Italian American|Italian]] immigrants began arriving in Albany in the wave of immigration in the latter part of the 19th century. Their numbers were smaller than in many other eastern cities mainly because most had found manufacturing jobs at [[General Electric]] in Schenectady.<ref name="mceneny107">McEneny (2006), p. 107</ref> The Jewish community had been established early, with Sephardic Jewish members as part of the Beverwijck community. Its population rose during the late 19th century, when many Ashkenazi Jews immigrated from eastern Europe.<ref name="mceneny107" /> In that period, there was also an influx of [[Chinese American|Chinese]] and east Asian immigrants, who settled in the downtown section of the city. Many of their descendants have since moved to suburban areas.<ref name="mceneny108">McEneny (2006), p. 108</ref> Asian immigration all but halted after the [[Immigration Act of 1924]].<ref name="mceneny111">McEneny (2006), p. 111</ref>
Albany saw its last large immigration pattern as part of the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] when many African Americans moved there from the [[American South]] before and after [[World War I]] to fill industrial positions and find other opportunities. In the early years, African-Americans lived together with Italians, Jews, and other immigrants in the South End, where housing was older and less expensive.<ref>[https://www.questia.com/library/p18/afro-americans-in-new-york-life-and-history/i2464161/vol-32-no-1-january Lemak, Jennifer A. "Albany, New York and the Great Migration"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310073941/https://www.questia.com/library/p18/afro-americans-in-new-york-life-and-history/i2464161/vol-32-no-1-january |date=March 10, 2018 }}, ''Afro - Americans in New York Life and History'', Vol. 32, Iss. 1, (Jan 2008): 47-74</ref> The black community has grown as a proportion of the population since then; African Americans made up three percent of the city's population in 1950, six percent in 1960, 12 percent in 1970, and 30 percent in 2010. The change in proportion is related mostly to middle-class white families moving to the suburbs and black families remaining within city limits during the same time period.<ref name="mceneny111">McEneny (2006), p. 111</ref><ref name="GR2" />
Since 2007, the number of [[Myanmar|Burmese]] refugees to Albany has increased. The Burmese refugee community consists mostly of
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As of April 1, 2020, Albany's population
With a 2013 Census-estimated population of 1.1 million,<ref name="esd.ny.gov">{{cite web|url=http://esd.ny.gov/regionaloverviews/capital/InsideRegion.html |title=Inside the Capital |access-date=2015-11-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913073300/https://www.esd.ny.gov/RegionalOverviews/Capital/InsideRegion.html |archive-date=September 13, 2015 |df=mdy}}</ref> the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state.
As of the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]],<ref name="GR2" /> Albany's population density was {{convert|4,572.7|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 46,362 housing units at an average density of {{convert|2,166.4|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}; 5,205 of these units (11.2%) were vacant. The [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|racial makeup]] of the city residents was 52.3% [[Definitions of whiteness in the United States|white]]; 27% [[Black race|black]] or [[African American]]; 0.06% [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Natives|Native Alaskan]]; 7.4% [[Asian Americans|Asian]]; 0.1% [[Native Hawaiians|Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander]]; .06% from other races; and 3.6% from two or more races. A total of 9.2% of the population were [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] of any race.{{efn|The percentages listed here were calculated using the raw population data given by the Census Bureau divided by the total population, rounded to the nearest [[hundredth]]. These percentages were calculated using the total population value of 97,856 as the [[divisor]], not the 94,233 people claiming one race.<ref name="GR2"/>|group=Note}} [[Non-Hispanic Whites]] were 52.0% of the population in 2010,<ref name="census.gov" /> compared to 87.0% in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|title=New York - Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |access-date=May 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812191959/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |archive-date=August 12, 2012 }}</ref>
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As of the [[2000 United States census|2000 census]], the top five [[Race and ethnicity in the United States|ancestry groups]] in the city were African American (27%), Irish (18.1%), Italian (12.4%), German (10.4%), and English (5.2%); (33.1%) of the population reported "other ancestries". Albany is home to a [[Triqui language]]-speaking community of [[Mexican-Americans]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Claudio Torrens |title=Some NY immigrants cite lack of Spanish as barrier |work=UTSanDiego.com |access-date=February 10, 2013 |date=May 28, 2011 |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/may/28/some-ny-immigrants-cite-lack-of-spanish-as-barrier/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last = Carleo-Evangelist|first=Jordan|title =Keeping a language alive: Dictionary project aims to save native tongue of the Triqui community|work = [[Times Union (Albany)]]|access-date = June 4, 2016|date = April 14, 2014|url = http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Keeping-a-language-alive-5399660.php}}</ref>
There were 40,709 households in Albany in 2000,
The median income for a household in the city in 2000 was ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|50041|1999}}}}, and the median income for a family was ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|51935|1999}}}} (male, year-round worker) and ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|47112|1999}}}} (female, year-round worker). The [[per capita income]] for the city was ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|38281|1999}}}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_06.html#a |title=Uniform Crime Reports: Table 6 Crime in the United States by Metropolitan Statistical Area, 2008 |access-date=September 8, 2015 |work=2008 Crime in the United States |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823044323/http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_06.html |archive-date=August 23, 2010}}</ref>{{efn|These values were given in 1999 dollars; here they have been adjusted for inflation.<ref name="GR2"/>|group=Note}} About 16.0% of families and 21.7% of the population were below the [[Poverty threshold|poverty line]], including 28.8% of those under age 18 and 12.5% of those age 65 or over.<ref name="GR2" /> The [[Crime rate|rate]] of reported violent crimes for 2008 (1,095 incidents per 100,000 residents) were more than double the rate for similarly sized US cities. Reported property crimes (4,669 incidents per 100,000 residents) were somewhat lower.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_06.html#a |title=Uniform Crime Reports: Table 6 Crime in the United States by Metropolitan Statistical Area, 2008 |access-date=September 8, 2010 |work=2008 Crime in the United States |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823044323/http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_06.html |archive-date=August 23, 2010 |url-status=dead|df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_16.html |title=Uniform Crime Reports: Table 16 Crime in the United States by Metropolitan Statistical Area, 2008 |access-date=September 8, 2010 |work=2008 Crime in the United States |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818181335/http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_16.html |archive-date=August 18, 2010}}</ref>
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Albany has no [[Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada|major league professional sports teams]], and [[Minor league|minor league teams]] typically have low support.<ref>{{cite news |title=Area Fans Are Hard to Please |author=Campbell, Steve |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |work=Times Union (Albany) |date=October 22, 2002 |page=C1 |url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6140212 |url-status=dead |access-date=June 22, 2010 |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430030107/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6140212 }}</ref>
The [[Albany Devils]] were a minor league [[ice hockey]] team that moved to the city for the [[2010–11 AHL season|2010–11 season]]. They played in the [[American Hockey League]] and were affiliated with the [[New Jersey Devils]] of the [[National Hockey League]].<ref>{{cite news |title=AHL Hockey Back in Albany |author=Dougherty, Peter |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |work=Times Union (Albany) |date=June 11, 2010 |page=B1 |url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=10919719 |url-status=dead |access-date=June 22, 2010 |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430030133/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=10919719 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=AHL Devils Lose Debut |author=Dougherty, Peter |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |work=Times Union (Albany) |date=October 10, 2010 |page=C1 |url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=12333217 |url-status=dead |access-date=November 20, 2010 |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430030157/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=12333217 }}</ref> The Devils replaced the [[Albany River Rats]], who played in the Capital Region from 1990 to 2010, when they relocated to [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]. The Albany Devils moved to [[Binghamton, New York]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schott |first1=Ken |title=It's official: Albany Devils moving to Binghamton |url=https://dailygazette.com/2017/01/31/it-s-official-albany-devils-moving-to-binghamton/#:~:text=New%20Jersey%20Devils%20president%20Hugh,moving%20from%20Albany%20to%20Binghamton. |website=dailygazette.com |date=January 31, 2017 |publisher=The Daily Gazette |access-date=6 April 2022}}</ref>
The [[Times Union Center]] has previously hosted [[arena football]] teams including the [[Albany Firebirds]] in the [[Arena Football League]] (AFL) from 1990 to 2000 and then a team originally known as the [[Albany Conquest]] and later the Firebirds in the [[af2]], the AFL's developmental league, from 2002 to 2009. The [[Albany Empire (AFL)|Albany Empire]] played in the AFL from 2018 through the 2019 season when the league folded. A new [[Albany Empire (NAL)|Albany Empire]] was relaunched in the [[National Arena League]] for the 2021 season. In 2023, [[Antonio Brown]] bought the team; after a series of problems with payments and personnel, the NAL suspended the franchise in the middle of the 2023 season.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Singelais |first1=Mark |date=June 15, 2023 |title=Albany Empire kicked out of National Arena League |work=[[Times Union (Albany)|Times Union]] |url=https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/national-arena-league-terminates-albany-empire-s-18154225.php |access-date=June 17, 2023}}</ref> A relaunched [[Albany Firebirds (2023–)|Albany Firebirds]] franchise will begin play in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Singelais |first=Mark |date=2023-09-28 |title=Firebirds back? Arena football returning to MVP Arena in 2024 |url=https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/arena-football-returning-mvp-arena-2024-18394410.php |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=Times Union |language=en-US}}</ref>
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Albany's [[Sister city|sister cities]] are:<ref name="sisters">{{cite web|title=Sister City US Listings |publisher=Sister Cities International |url=http://www.sister-cities.org/directory/index.cfm |access-date=April 25, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629184627/http://www.sister-cities.org/ |archive-date=June 29, 2007 }} ''Permalinking to search results is not possible. Search under New York to access the list.''</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Justin |first1=Raga |title=Albany's newest sister city is war-torn Bucha in Ukraine |url=https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/albany-s-newest-sister-city-war-torn-bucha-ukraine-17766810.php |publisher=Times Union |access-date=7 February 2023 |date=6 February 2023}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Bucha, Kyiv Oblast|Bucha]], Ukraine
*{{flagicon|BHS}} [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]], Bahamas
*{{flagicon|NED}} [[Nijmegen]], Netherlands
*{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Tula, Russia|Tula]], Russia
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Verona]], Italy
==Notable people==
*[[List of people associated with Albany County, New York]]
==See also==
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* [[List of cities in New York]]
* [[List of incorporated places in New York's Capital District]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Albany, New York]]
* [[Neighborhoods of Albany, New York]]
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* {{cite book |author=Weise, Arthur James |title=The History of the City of Albany, New York, from the Discovery of the Great River in 1524 by Verrazzano to the Present Time |publisher=E.H. Bender |year=1884 |location=Albany |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJl4AAAAMAAJ |oclc=337558}}
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