Albany (New York)

Funnily, Albany is the capital of New York State. It is a very bad city for hitchhiking. Basically, it is a small downtown with amazingly huge suburb. Everyone drives a car but noone picks you up apart from cops. Try to avoid it.

Going south, New York City

South from Albany there are two service stations on the I-87 though - try to get there and come back here with your results.