It's very nice, safe, and the people are friendly. Excellent school district too. Schenectady and Troy are both quaint and lively. Both filled with artisans. However, you do want to watch your step in these areas. Both are home to a lot of impoverished people. Clifton Park is nice, but it is farther away from Albany.
Best Answer: Time Magazine had an article a while back on The Catholic Ivy League. It is not a real league but merely their way of saying that the following Catholic colleges were considered the best in the nation: Notre Dame. Georgetown.
Notre Dame has produced more All-Americans than any other Football Bowl Subdivision school. Additionally, seven Fighting Irish football players have won the Heisman Trophy. Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College, and one of a handful of programs independent of a football conference.