On This Day in Telephone History March 18TH 1878 the First Telephone Exchange in New York State opened at Albany.
It was located on the 2ND floor of the Van Huesen & Charles Building at 468 Broadway, but was demolished in the 1970s.
The exchange opened with about 75 subscribers which were mostly doctors, manufacturers, and merchants.
By year’s end there were 358 subscribers in Albany, Troy, Watervliet and Cohoes.