Troy NY is mostly a dump. The median home price is about $200,000.
There is strangely some commercial high rise building going on in the little “downtown” area, just across the Hudson River from Albany. And the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute looks enlarged and very up to date (from the way it was in the 1950s), but most of the city looks “down in the dumps”).
I lived there about 2-1/2-3 years when I was a child.
Wanting to check the place out after a road trip to much further upstate NY (about 4 years ago), I chose to take a local route south into the Troy area. In the last three miles entering troy, it seemed like I was driving through a drug dealers haven, with what looked like “street sales” taking place every few blocks. I then surveyed the rest of the town to where we used to live out near Rensselaer Polytechnic. I could only surmise that all the teachers and administrators at Rensselaer most likely only go to work there but do not live in Troy.
They call it Troylet. It is situated in what is called The TriCity region. Albany Troy and Schenectady once thriving cities have been ruined by Democrat mayors and city councils.