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Downtown Schenectady has a wide variety of service businesses including banking, health & beauty, office, automotive, transportation, churches, daycare, financial services & much more. We're at your service!
Browse our shops, restaurants, services, lodging, attractions, transportation & parking.
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Thursdays, 9:30am-1:30pm
Outside Around City Hall
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Sundays, 10am-2pm
Outside Around City Hall
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Enjoy this festive marketplace with weekly entertainment and more than 70 regional vendors.
Purchase your tickets now for the
November 10, 5:30-8:30pm at
Riverstone Manor, Glenville
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A weekly mix of food and merchandise vendors along the Jay Street Marketplace.
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Music & Entertainment
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8th Annual Crawl for a Cure
October 22, 4-10pm
8th Annual Crawl for a Cure
October 22, 4-10pm
JECCO
Yankee Holler
October 21, 6:30pm
Miracles for Meg Music by E.J. Ray Acoustic
October 22, 6:30pm
Josh & Justin
October 20, 6pm
October 21, 9pm
8th Annual Crawl for a Cure
October 22, 4-10pm
October 22, 9pm
JECCO Trio
October 26, 6pm
Sean Lyons
October 21, 8pm
8th Annual Crawl for a Cure
October 22, 4-10pm
Ed Salvo Band
October 21, 9pm
JECCO
October 21, 12-2pm
Completely Different
October 20, 7-10pm
Eileen Mack & Wayne Hawkins
October 21, 7-10pm
Check Out All of
Downtown Schenectady's
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The Downtown Dish
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This week, with Halloween right around the corner, we have a fun recipe that you can make for
Trick or Treat dinner...and see if you can freak the kids out!
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| 14th Annual Building Block Party |
Next Thursday! Purchase your reservations now!
October 27, 5:30-8:30pm
GE Theatre at Proctors
Please join the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) and hundreds of community supporters for an evening of
fantastic networking,
delicious food from nearly two dozen local restaurants, and a
spectacular silent auction as we celebrate downtown and those who contribute to its ongoing success.
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Silent Auction Sneak Peek
This year, celebrate with an
Old Fashioned Christmas. Cut your own tree courtesy of
Bob's Trees, then start your ornament collection and take a holiday class from
Experience & Creative Design. Many more fantastic items will be up for bid!
Tickets
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$65 regular / $35 young professional
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| An American in Paris |
 Through October 21
Mainstage at Proctors
An American in Paris is the hit musical about an American soldier, a mysterious French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. Don't miss this stunning four-time Tony-winning production that earned more awards than any other musical in the 2014-15 season!
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| Rapture, Blister, Burn |
 October 19-23
Schenectady Civic Players
After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths. Catherine build a career as a rock-star academic, while Gwen build a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in opposite ways,each woman covets the other's life.
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On The Stage
GE Theatre - With David Scheel's speciality of having fun at the expense of classical music, you'll laugh yourself silly while enjoying beautiful piano music!
Dave Rowe - October 22, 7:30pm 
Education Center - Presented by Eighth Step: He takes the stage with a vibrantly original voice, powerful guitar, singing about loss, war, love, triumph and dreams.
On The Screen
GE Theatre -
Presented by It Came From Schenectady: On Halloween night in 1963, a six-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably murders his sister and is committed. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns home to kill again, all the while eluding his psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis, who suspects Michael's intentions, following him back to Haddonfield.
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YWCA of NorthEastern NY 
October 20, 5:45pm
44 Washington Avenue
Take Back the Night March: The event will kick off with City Council President Leesa Perazzo and Police Chief Eric Clifford speaking. The march will leave from the steps of the YWCA.
Grand Opening Party & Fall Block Party 
October 21, 3-7pm
Jay Street Marketplace
Come join Dames, Raw, and Sprinkleista as they celebrate the opening of their businesses with music, food, and fun! Live music from Derrick Horton and the Jay street Band, Justin Friello, and more!
Paint & Dine at the Taj Mahal 
October 21, 6pm
142 Clinton Street
Paint & Dine: Painting begins at 6pm with abstract artist Dr. Linda Rozell-Shannon, with dinner 7-8pm. Unlimited Indian buffet with two drinks and painting class. Reserve in advance at 518-795-5894 or
email.
 Transformative Fitness
137 So. Ferry Street
October 21, 5:15-7pm
After Work Party: Shake off the week and get pumped for the weekend. Release your stress and worries.
45 minute Yoga class includes fruit & herb infused artesian water. RSVP only via email,
Schenectady County Historical Society
32 Washington Avenue
October 21 & 28 at 7 & 7:30pm
Candlelight Walking Tours are Back!
Choose the Colonial or the Victorian Tour, or come two nights and try them both! The museum will be open after each tour for you to see the exhibits, enjoy some refreshments and hear live old- time music from local musicians. Please remember to bring a flashlight with you.
8th Annual Crawl for a Cure 
October 22, 4-10pm
Downtown Schenectady
Come join the fun! With each paid ticket ($15), you have a chance to win an $800 gift card (for best poker hand) and entries to win fourteen $50 gift cards from participating bars: Manhattan Exchange, 20 North, Centre Street Pub, Katie O'Byrne's, 151 Bar & Restaurant, Hunter's on Jay and Uncle Ben's. Blue Moon & Miller Lite drink specials at all participating bars during the event. All proceeds from this event go to The American Cancer Society for Breast Cancer Research.
The Open Door Bookstore 
October 22, 12-1:30pm
28 Jay Street
Emily McCully signing Clara
October 22, 1-2:30pm
Mark Teague signs:
October 23, 1pm
510 Union Street
Paint and Sip class: Paint two pumpkin votive holders. The cost for the class is $45; however, the first five people to purchase tickets online will pay only $42.50!
Mexican Radio 
Day of the Vegan
Throughout October & November 1
Day of The Dead meets World Vegan Day! We'll be offering a extended Vegan menu, drink specials and more on Tuesday Nov. 1st. In preparation, we're running a contest all through October. Come in and take a pic of yourself enjoying a Vegan dish and post it on Facebook, Instagram and/or Twitter with #DayOfTheVegan, and we'll choose two winners to receive either a DOTV T-shirt or a sugar skull screen print poster signed by the artist.
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Erie Canal - Explore the Erie Canal
through 14 mobile audio stops. Discover the history and innovation that made the canal possible and how this technology impacted the lives of Schenectady residents.
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| miSci (museum of innovation & science) |
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15 Nott Terrace Heights
Museum Hours: Mon-Sat: 9am-5pm, Sun: 12-5pm
October 22-23, 4:30pm-9am
Explore the museum with a spell-binding scavenger hunt, encounter aliens with hourly Challenger Adventure missions, learn about the things that go bump in the night in the planetarium, and gasp at the mystical properties of dry ice.
Dinner and breakfast included. Space is infinite, but registrations are limited. Children must be accompanied by adults.
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| Schenectady County Public Library Notes |
99 Clinton Street
Monday - Thursday: 9am - 8pm
Friday - Saturday: 9am - 5pm
Sunday: 1 - 5pm
October 29, 1-4pm
Whitney Book Corner & Central Library
Come dressed as your favorite wizarding character! Free refreshments. Wizarding Herbology Classes: 1pm & 2:15pm in the Central Library's Slater Program Room. Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone FREE MOVIE: 1pm in the Central Library's
McChesney Room. Register by calling 377-4670 or emailing
[email protected]
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600 Union Street
Hobby & craft books: $1 in October
All proceeds support Schenectady County Public Library
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