Goose Hill

Goose Hill was established in the early 1900's as a place for employees of the thriving American Locomotive Company, Alco, to live. Becoming Alco in the early part of the century, it's predecessor was started in 1851. It was one of the biggest producers of steam and then diesel locomotives which were shipped all over the world. Goose Hill was close to rail lines, The Erie Canal, and The Mohawk River. The neighborhood was settled mostly by Italian immigrants and contains a large number of duplexes.

Nott Street

Nott Street is one of the two commercial corridors in Goose Hill. On the south side of the road is Union
College, and on the north are numerous businesses from barber shops and beauty salons, to
restaurants and bars, to banks and gas stations. (1) Barber Shop
(2) Mohawk Grocery & Deli (3) Visage Hair Studio

(1) Geppettos Restaurant (2) Schenectady Fire Department #4 (3) Department of Social Services

Peter Pause Restaurant

Avenue A

(1)Avenue A (2) Westminster United Presbyterian Church (3) House on Avenue A

Avenue B

(1) Old Franklin School, now Franklin School Apartments, built 1907 (2) House on Avenue B (3) There's
an abundance of white aluminum siding from the seventies not only in Goose Hill, but all of Schenectady.

Carrie Street/Foster Avenue

(1) Rumpus Tavern (2) Foster Avenue

Lenox Road

Houses on Lenox Road

More houses on Lenox Road

Steinmetz Park

Steinmetz Park is close to the end of Lenox Road and was named after one of the greatest
inventors and thinkers ever to live. Charles Proteus Steinmetz was an engineer at General
Electric in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A pond in the summer becomes and ice skating rink in the winter.

Yates School

Yates Arts In Education Magnet School
built 1914

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