Question: The Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, refers to the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York, in the 21st century, the Capital District has emerged as a major anchor, of which marketing name for the eastern part of the U.S. state of New York, encompassing the Capital District and the Hudson Valley?

Context articles: Interstate 87 (New York)
Michael E. Long
Andhra Pradesh Capital Region
Tech Valley
Capital District Transportation Authority
Albany, New York
Capital District, New York
New York State Route 32
Spectrum News Capital Region
Timeline of town creation in the Hudson Valley

Interstate 87 (I-87) is a 333.49 mi Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of New York, and is part of the main highway between New York City and Montreal.
 The highway begins in the Bronx borough of New York City, just north of the Triborough Bridge.
 From there, the route runs northward through the Hudson Valley, the Capital District, and the easternmost part of the North Country to the Canadian border in the Town of Champlain.
 At its north end, I-87 continues into Quebec as Autoroute 15 (A-15).
 I-87 connects with several regionally important roads: I-95 in New York City, New York State Route 17 (NY 17; future I-86) near Harriman, I-84 near Newburgh, and I-90 in Albany.
 The route is the longest intrastate Interstate Highway in the Interstate Highway System.
 The highway is not contigous with I-87 in North Carolina.
Mike Long (born October 13, 1946 in Albany, New York) is an American basketball coach and former basketball player.
 He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Hudson Valley Community College.
 On December 8, 2013, he won his 400th career game as a head coach.
 He has been inducted into three different Halls of Fame: The College of Saint Rose Hall of Fame (April 1992), Bishop Maginn High School (Former Vincentian Institute) Athletics Hall of Fame (May 2006), and the NYS Capital District Basketball Hall of Fame (June 2010) alongside Capital District coaching legend Doc Sauers
Andhra Pradesh Capital Region is the conurbation or metropolitan area surrounding Amaravati, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh.
 The entire region is under the jurisdiction of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, and covers an area of 8603 sqkm under 58 mandals, of which 29 are in Krishna district and 29 in Guntur district.
 The capital region covers 18 mandals fully and 11 mandals partially in Guntur district.
 In Krishna district, it covers 15 mandals fully and 14 mandals partially under the jurisdiction of APCRDA.
 The capital city is an Urban Notified Area, and will cover 217.23 km2 , within the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region.
Tech Valley began as a marketing name for the eastern part of the U.S. state of New York, encompassing the Capital District and the Hudson Valley.
 Originated in 1998 to promote the greater Albany area as a high-tech competitor to regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston, the moniker subsequently grew to represent the counties in New York between IBM's Westchester County plants in the south and the U.S.-Canadian border to the north, and has since evolved to constitute both the technologically-oriented metonym and the geographic territory comprising most of New York State north of New York City.
 The area's high technology ecosystem is supported by technologically-focused academic institutions including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute.
 Tech Valley grew from encompassing 19 counties straddling both sides of the Adirondack Northway and the New York Thruway, and with heavy state taxpayer subsidy, has experienced significant growth in the computer hardware side of the high-technology industry, with great strides in the nanotechnology sector, digital electronics design, and water- and electricity-dependent integrated microchip circuit manufacturing, involving companies including IBM in Armonk and its Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, GlobalFoundries in Malta, and others.
 As of 2015, venture capital investment in Tech Valley had grown to US$163 million.
 Westchester County has developed a burgeoning biotechnology sector in the 21st century, with over US$1 billion in planned private investment as of 2016, earning the county the nickname "Biochester".
The Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) is a public benefit corporation created by New York State, overseeing a number of multi-modal parts of public transportation in the Capital District of New York State (Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties).
 CDTA runs local and express buses, including a bus rapid transit line called BusPlus between Albany and Schenectady, and day-to-day management of two Amtrak stations in the Capital region; the Albany-Rensselaer and Saratoga Springs Amtrak stations.
Albany ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.
 Roughly 150 mi north of New York City, Albany developed on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 mi south of its confluence with the Mohawk River.
 The population of the City of Albany was 97,856 according to the 2010 census.
 Albany constitutes the economic and cultural core of the Capital District of New York State, which comprises the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, including the nearby cities and suburbs of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs.
 With a 2013 Census-estimated population of 1.1 million the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state and 38th in the United States.
The Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, refers to the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York.
 With a population of 1,170,483 (2013), the Capital District is the fourth largest metropolitan region in the state and the 45th largest in the country.
 Companies that have headquarters in Albany include CommerceHub and the Environment One Corporation.
 In the 21st century, the Capital District has emerged as a major anchor of Tech Valley, the moniker describing the technologically-focused region of eastern New York State.
 The Capital District was first settled by the Dutch in the early 17th century and came under British control in 1664.
 Albany has been the permanent capital of the state of New York since 1797.
 The Capital District is notable for many historical events that predate the independence of the United States, including the Albany Plan of Union and The Battles of Saratoga.
New York State Route 32 (NY 32) is a north–south state highway that extends for 176.73 mi through the Hudson Valley and Capital District regions of the U.S. state of New York.
 It is a two-lane surface road for nearly its entire length, with few divided and no limited-access sections.
 From Harriman to Albany, it is closely parallel to Interstate 87 (I-87) and U.S. Route 9W (US 9W), overlapping with the latter in several places.
Spectrum News Capital Region (formerly Time Warner Cable News Capital Region) is an American cable news television channel that is owned by Charter Communications, as an affiliate of its Spectrum News slate of regional news channels.
 The channel provides 24-hour rolling news coverage focused primarily on the Capital District of eastern New York.
 The channel is headquartered in Albany, New York, and maintains a subfeed serving the Hudson Valley region.
 Spectrum News Capital Region is carried on channel 9 throughout most of the region, although its channel slot varies in the towns of Queensbury and Canajoharie, and in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
The towns and cities of the Hudson Valley were created by the U.S. state of New York as municipalities, in order to perform the services of local government.
 In 1683, prior to the creation of modern towns, the Province of New York was divided into twelve counties for administrative purposes by the Colonial Governor of New York.
 In the Hudson Valley, these divisions included Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster counties.
 Dutchess and Orange remained unorganized until 1713, with Dutchess administered from Ulster; Orange would be administered from New York County.
 Future counties would be formed and towns exchanged over time, with Rockland County split from Orange in 1799, at which time the southern towns of Ulster were transferred to Orange as compensation for the loss; and Putnam County from Dutchess in 1812, these county's towns can trace their origins to towns and precincts that were formed in their parent counties.
 Another change that occurred was the transfer of Dutchess County's northern section, the Livingston Manor, to Columbia County.
 Greene County was formed in 1800 by the combination of the southernmost towns of Albany County with the northernmost towns of Ulster.
 The history of the towns of Greene and Columbia counties can be found at the Timeline of town creation in New York's Capital District.