The Town Business

Archive for October, 2009

Welcome to the visitors section of the City of Albany’s official website. Albany is the jewel in New York’s crown. The City, first settled by the Dutch in 1624, was given its charter in 1686 by Governor Thomas Dongan and became Capital of the State of New York in 1797. For the first time visitor, it is highly recommended that you start your tour of Albany at the Visitor’s Center located at 25 Quackenbush Square on Broadway. The Henry Hudson Planetarium at the Center has wonderful shows to introduce you to the City’s history and attractions.

You can take a walking tour or board one of the City’s trolleys or AquaDucks with a guide to describe to you the City’s educational and historic sites. The Visitor’s Center can also supply you with information on concert and theater performances, on dining and lodging options, or help you book a tour on one of the sightseeing boats that sails on the Hudson River.

If you want to investing and want to develop an environmentally friendly business then the City of Albany is the only major business destination to invest and grow this bisnis.Aset help create a strong economic climate that provides Albany with a competitive advantage in attracting new business.

The Albany Local Development Corporation and the Development and Planning staff continue to work to create a business friendly environment in the City of Albany. As part of the business development services offered by the City of Albany, staff worked with several organizations and a variety of loan programs. Our goal is to provide companies with the resources available in order to encourage business growth and job creation in the City of Albany.

In the year 1540 when the search for trade routes to the Far East in 1609 an explorer Henry Hudson came to La Grande France Riviere.Pada year 1624 the first settlers, founded a colony called Fort Orange for the House of Orange, the Dutch royal family. In tahun1629 Dutch West India Company established a trading post at Fort Orange. In 1652 Pieter Stuyvesant, governor of New Netherland Fort Orange stated that the village should be Beverwyck, no longer under the administration patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a Dutch diamond merchant.

In 1664 when the Dutch surrendered to the British without a battle, King Charles II granted the region, including New Netherland, New England, Long Island and Delaware kingdom to the brother of James, Duke of York and Albany both. So Beverwyck became Albany and New Amsterdam became New York. Albany remained under British rule until the American Revolution.

At that time on July 22, 1686 which represents the crown of Governor Thomas Dongan granted a charter recognizes English as the city of Albany. Dongan Pieter Schuyler was also appointed as the first mayor.

The citizens of Albany, MN, like so many of their counterparts in rural communities throughout the United States, have always understood that their long-term prosperity depends in part on having access to telecommunications services. It was that knowledge which prompted them in 1951 to band together to establish the Albany Mutual Telephone Cooperative, at a time when “telecommunications services” meant plain old telephone service delivered over twisted-pair copper lines.

More than half a century later, people in both rural and urban areas increasingly depend on what now are called “advanced telecommunications services,” which include all-digital TV offerings such as IPTV, high-definition TV (HDTV) and video on demand (VoD), as well as high-speed Internet access and, of course, basic voice service. Not surprisingly, Albany Tel, in keeping with its original mission, is gearing up to deliver those services, too. Located in central Minnesota, Albany has about 1,800 residents and comprises one of three exchanges operated by Albany Tel; the other two are in the nearby towns of Freeport and New Munich. Linked by a fiberoptic ring and a 250-mile toll network, the three exchanges together serve about 3,800 access lines. The vast majority of Albany Tel’s access lines consist of relatively new copper, with some segments only 20 years old and others deployed as recently as 2003. However, even when combined with ADSL2+ access technology, copper can deliver best case speeds of only 20 Mbps, which is also distance sensitive and obviously not enough to support bandwidth-intensive video and advanced  data services. That limitation, plus the likelihood that a cable-TV competitor would begin offering triple-play video, data and voice services, prompted