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About Troy

Troy is a city in the United States state of New York and is the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York. It's famous for being the home of Uncle Sam, known as the person who supplied beef for the United States Army during the War of 1812. It's also known for the home of Garnet Douglass Baltimore, who is known as the first African-American to become an engineer and graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1881. It is located on the western edge of that county on the eastern bank of the Hudson River just northeast of the capital city of Albany. Troy has close ties to Albany, New York and nearby Schenectady, forming a region popularly called the Capital District. The city is one of the three major centers for the Albany metropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 1,170,483. At the 2020 census, the population of Troy was 51,401. However, there are several smaller cities close to it, such as Cohoes, Saratoga Springs, and Hudson. Troy is home to a number of institutions of higher learning: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest private engineering and technical university in the US, founded in 1824; Hudson Valley Community College, part of the sprawling University of the State of New York system that offers both two-year and four-year degrees; the Sage Colleges, which consists of the Russell Sage College headquarters in downtown Troy, an Albany campus, and a graduate-level division, and the Emma Willard School, an all-girls residential high school started by Emma Willard, a women's education activist who sought to create a school for girls equal to that available to their male counterparts. The Emma Willard School was the setting for scenes from the Al Pacino motion picture Scent of a Woman (1992) and the Kevin Kline film The Emperor's Club (2002).