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The Joachim Staats House and Gerrit Staats Ruin is a national historic district in the Town of Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York.

WGDJ (1300 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Rensselaer, New York, and serving the Capital District. It airs a talk radio format and is owned and operated by Capital Broadcasting, Inc. The transmitter is off River Road (New York State Route 9J) in Rensselaer. Programming is also heard in Albany and Rensselaer on 80-watt FM translator W254DA at 98.7 MHz.WGDJ features local talk hosts in morning and afternoon drive times. Weekdays begin with "The Paul Vandenburgh Show." It's considered the longest running radio talk program in The Capital District. In afternoons, Jack Chatham hosts a local talk program. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated conservative talk shows, including Mark Levin, Brian Kilmeade, Dan Bongino, Guy Benson, Rich Valdes, "Red Eye Radio" and "First Light." Weekends feature shows on money, law, guns, home repair, car repair as well as a local swap and trade show. The station also features local news most hours on weekdays, with national updates from Townhall Radio News. Traffic and weather reports are presented by Spectrum News.

WPBZ-FM (103.9 MHz, "The Breeze") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Rensselaer, New York, and serving the Capital District, including the Albany-Schenectady-Troy radio market. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and airs a soft adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for part of November and December. The studios and offices are on Kings Road in Schenectady. WPBZ-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 watts, with its transmitter off Smultz Road in Glenmont, New York.

Wemple is a hamlet in Albany County, New York, United States.

Glenmont is a hamlet in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York, United States. Glenmont is in the northeastern corner of the town and is a suburb of the neighboring city of Albany. It is bordered to the east by the Hudson River. Originally a farm town, today Glenmont is home to residential neighborhoods, a busy commercial corridor along Route 9W, and industry along the riverfront. It is part of the Bethlehem Central School District.

District School No. 1, also known as Cedar Hill Schoolhouse, is a historic school building located in the Town of Bethlehem in Albany County, New York south of the capital. It was built in 1859 and expanded in 1907. It is a one-story, rectangular brick building, seven bays by three bays in the Italianate style with later Neoclassical details. It features an elaborate domed cupola. School use ceased in 1962. Since 1965 it has housed the Bethlehem Historical Society and museum.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

The Moordener Kill is a 15.5-mile-long (24.9 km) tributary to the Hudson River that flows through southwestern Rensselaer County, New York, in the United States. Moordener Kill translates to "Murderer Creek", with moordenaar being the modern Dutch word for "murderer" and kill for "creek". The name comes from the creek having been the site of an ambush of Dutch settlers by Native Americans in 1643 in which seven men and two women were killed.

Bethlehem House, also known as the Rensselaer Nicoll House, is a historic home located on Dinmore Road in Bethlehem, Albany County, New York. It was originally built about 1735 and expanded in 1796, 1810 (kitchen wing), and 1830 (tea room and office). It is two and one half stories high with two and one story additions in the rear. It is constructed of brick with a gambrel roof and three chimneys. It features a one-story Victorian-era entrance porch.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

The Vloman Kill is an 18.5-mile-long (29.8 km) tributary to the Hudson River in Albany County, New York, in the United States. Its source is in the town of New Scotland near the village of Voorheesville, and its mouth is at the Hudson River near the hamlet of Cedar Hill, in the town of Bethlehem. The Vloman Kill has a drainage area of approximately 30 square miles (78 km2).

Bethlehem Center, also known as Babcock's Corners or Bethlehem Centre, is a hamlet in the Town of Bethlehem in Albany County, New York. It is located at the junction of U.S. Route 9W (US 9W) and New York State Route 910A (NY 910A) also known as Feura Bush Road / Glenmont Road.

Elmbrook Farm is a historic farm complex located at Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York. The farmhouse itself was built about 1830 and modified about twenty years later to include Greek Revival architecture. The complex also includes a barn (ca. 1790), a shop / office (ca. 1800), a milk shed, a corn crib, a cinder block garage, and a small family burial plot.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

The Port of Albany–Rensselaer, widely known as the Port of Albany, is a port of entry in the United States with facilities on both sides of the Hudson River in Albany and Rensselaer, New York. Private and public port facilities have existed in both cities since the 17th century, with an increase in shipping after the Albany Basin and Erie Canal were built with public funds in 1825. The port's modern name did not come into widespread use until 1925; the current port was constructed in 1932 under the governorship of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. It included the largest grain elevator in the world at the time. Today the grain elevator is the largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River; the port has the tallest harbor crane in the state of New York. The port has rail connections with the Albany Port Railroad, which allows for connections with CSXT and CP Rail. It is near several interstates and the New York State Canal System. The port features several tourist attractions as well, such as USS Slater, the only destroyer escort still afloat in the United States.