Albany

It's the capital region of New York State, there's bound to be stuff to do here right? Feel free to contribute new entries or adding more information to existing entries.

Music

Valentines - A small club that plays mostly local music and little-known acts but occasionally has larger national and international bands like Of Montreal in September of 2005.

Pepsi Arena - Stadium that has big and expensive shows if you're into that.

Northern Lights - Club that has gets some good acts as well.

Food

There actually are a lot more food options in Albany.

Bombers

Burrito bar and lounge. Located on Lark Street in downtown Albany (the next block down from Ben and Jerry's). Home of the biggest (and best) burritos outside of chains like Chipotle or Baja Fresh. We're talking girth -- everything packed and tidily wrapped. Options for all; the BBQ chicken and BBQ tofu burritos are equally excellent. They have non-burrito options as well - tacos, quesadillas, cheese fries, etc - and glorious dessert empanadas and taquitos. All relatively cheap, served in a refurbished sub-street dive. Newly opened bar upstairs. This is the sort of food that is craved and sparks drunken quests.

258 Lark Street
Albany, NY 
www.bombersburritobar.com

Dim Sum

Ocean Palace, located in Albany (take Exit 2E on 87 South to get onto Central Ave) offers a very extensive dim sum menu during weekend brunch times; they also offer a pretty good selection of authentic Chinese dishes, with a strong focus on Cantonese and seafood dishes--the variety of dim sum available outside of weekend brunch is considerably smaller, however. The place is too small and there's not enough clientele in Albany for them to offer the crazy dim sum carts that you may be used to in big cities, but Ocean Palace is probably the closest you can get to good authentic Chinese food (or Dim Sum, for that matter) when you're sick and tired of Chopsticks or Happy Star.

855 Central Ave
Albany, NY 
(518) 453-6258

Verdile's

A wonderful Italian place in North Troy. My family's been going to it for over 20 years. Try the Pasta Special, linguini with garlic butter sauce, spinach and shrimp. Plus enough for the next day's lunch too. - Suzanne C. Walsh '05

572 2nd Ave, Troy, NY

Krispy Kreme

The infamous doughnuts are available in Latham, NY.

555 Troy Schenectady Road
Latham, NY 12110 US
(518) 783-8600

Transportation

Albany is a good starting point for reaching other places in the world, with bus, train, and plane options.

Bus

Greyhound routes in the vicinity of Albany.

The Greyhound bus station can get you started on a long-distance bus trip.

34 Hamilton St
Albany, NY 12207 
(518) 434-8461

Train

Amtrak routes in the vicinity of Albany.

The Albany train station is located across the Hudson River in a town called Rensselaer.

525 East St.
Rensselaer, NY 12144

Plane

Fly away from here.

737 Albany Shaker Rd
Albany, NY 12211