Hmmm....all you nasty mudcatters not respecting Schenectady as you should! For Shame! A pox on your houses.

It is NOT a suburb of Albany..or Fort Orange as you British probably still call Albany. How dare you insinuate such a thing.

Schenectady...which I was told to pronounce in Mohawk as "skuh-nehk-dah-da' (with the apostrophe standing in for a glottal stop) with No stress on any one symbol...is indeed a fair town. fair indeed.

Schenectady could aslo kick Hull down with one foot tied behind its head.

Somewhere in the four thousand verses to "Low Bridge Everybody down!" there must be mention of Schenectady, no?

Hull should stand in sheer AWE of Schenectady. Bow down to Schenectady even!

Because:

It's on the Great River Hudson.
It's next to the OTHER great NY River, The Mohawk which everyone forgets.
It has a Train station
The old Eerie Canal runs by it
There's been a couple of famous murders there
It has substantially less drunken students than Fort Orange (Albany)
It doesn't have stupidly named suburbs like Albany's the Slingerlands ( now there's a village to be named in a song)
From town Center to forested outskirts is a 15 minute drive
Sir John DOESN'T live there
It will not sink into the North Sea soon or even later!
Martin Gibson doesn't live there either

What's not to love?