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Albany is the capital and most populous city of New York State, located on the west bank of the Hudson River approximately ten miles south of its confluence with the Mohawk River, with a 2020 population of 99,224. The oldest city in New York and the economic and cultural core of the Capital District - a metropolitan area of 1.3 million residents including Colonie, Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs - Albany originated as a Mohican settlement before Dutch colonists established Fort Nassau in 1614 and Fort Orange in 1624 for fur trading. After the English took control in 1664 and renamed it Albany in honor of the Duke of York's Scottish title, the city became New York's capital in 1797 and was chartered in 1686 as the oldest surviving British colonial settlement north of Virginia. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Albany thrived as a center of trade and transportation, serving as the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and home to early railroads, though its population declined in the late 20th century until a $234 million redevelopment plan approved in the 1990s spurred downtown renewal. Since 2020, Albany's economy has focused on artificial intelligence, computer hardware, nanotechnology, and digital electronics. Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, located in the southeastern corner of the region on the Hudson River in the Adirondack foothills, with a 2020 census population of 14,830 and serves as the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. Named by Colonel Johannes Glen in 1788 after the large waterfall on the Hudson River at the city's southern end, Glens Falls was originally called Chepontuc by Indigenous Iroquoian speakers and later Wing's Falls after Quaker leader Abraham Wing, who established the permanent settlement following the Revolutionary War in 1783. The city, which was granted its charter by the New York state legislature in 1908 and became independent from the town of Queensbury at that time, earned the title "Hometown U.S.A." from Look magazine in 1944 and has also been known as the "Empire City." Glens Falls experienced significant growth after being incorporated as a village in 1839, though it suffered multiple devastating fires in 1864, 1884, and 1902, and later annexed approximately 49 acres from Queensbury in 2003. The city encompasses 3.9 square miles with 6,904 households as of the 2020 census and is surrounded by the town of Queensbury to the north, east, and west. Schenectady is a city in eastern New York's Schenectady County, about 15 miles southeast of state capital Albany near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers, with a 2020 census population of 67,047 making it the ninth-most populous city in New York. Founded by Dutch colonists in 1661 on the south side of the Mohawk River, the city's name derives from the Mohawk word skahnéhtati meaning "beyond the pines." Schenectady rapidly developed in the 19th century as a manufacturing and transportation hub, connected by the Mohawk River and Erie Canal, with major employers including General Electric (founded there) and American Locomotive Company, both of which remained influential into the mid-20th century. Union College, chartered in 1795, was the first nondenominational institution of higher education and the second college established in New York. Today, General Electric continues operations in the city, working on renewable energy technologies and historically collaborating on nuclear-powered submarine production.