New York Heritage Areas and Visitor Centers

Heritage Areas  link New York State communities from New York City to Whitehall, and from Albany to Buffalo. Each Urban Cultural Park or Heritage Area is developed around a theme such as transportation, natural environment or reform movements.  Set among traditional parks, historic neighborhoods, and old mills and churches, in a Heritage Area, the community itself becomes the park.

Albany - (518) 434-0405, Business and capital, transportation.
Binghamton & Endicott - (607) 772-0660, Immigration, migration, labor and industry.
Buffalo - (716) 856-3150, Flowering of culture.
Cohoes - (518) 237-7999, Labor and industry.
Kingston (914) 331-7517, Transportation.
Ossining - (914) 941-3189, Reform movements.
Rochester - (716) 325-2030, Natural environment, run by the Greater Rochester Visitors Association.
Sackets Harbor (315) 646-2321, Defense.
Saratoga Springs - (518) 587-3241, Natural environment.
Schenectady - (518) 382-7890, Labor and industry.
Seneca Falls - (315) 568-2703, Reform movements.
Syracuse - (315) 471-0593, Transportation, business and capital, see the Erie Canal Museum.
Troy - (518)270-8667, Labor and industry.
Whitehall - (518) 499-0716, Defense, see the Skenesborough
Museum.