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Article: The Forgotten New York.(upstate New York)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 15, 2007
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y.-"In Schenectady, Our Schenectady," the city song goes, "what a warm and friendly place it is to be," full of "stores and shops with all that one might need or wish to see."
Back in the 1950s, maybe. But the song, adopted by the city in 1995, expresses more hope than reality these days. Once known as "the city that lights and hauls the world," Schenectady has become a dim bulb and the first stop in a long, bleak road that runs through much of upstate New York, a countryside pockmarked with a series of eerie industrial relics and shuttered mill towns.
In sharp contrast to prosperous New York City and its suburbs, where ...