About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
In the coming weeks, the Downtown YMCA will abandon its home at 13 State St. "The building really does have a nice personalityl,” says Lou Magliocca, the Y's executive director. It has many nooks and crannies and is well-known for the running track that hovers above the basketball court. Handball was always a popular activity at the building, which was built in 1927 and opened the following January. Posted on January 31, 2010.
This photograph of the Downtown YMCA in Schenectady was taken in November of 1927, just two months before the building’s official grand opening. (Courtesy of Schenectady County Historical Society)
A noon-time basketball game has been a tradition at Schenectady’s Downtown YMCA since the building was built in 1927. The running track hanging over the court is one of the structure’s many unusual characteristics.
