We needed to better represent ourselves. Calling ourselves the Upstate NY Furs was just too broad of a group name. So we are transitioning into our new home as the NY Capital Region Furs. The Capital Region for us consists of: Albany, Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga.


Why is this page shutting down and moving? We will do our best to explain.

Let's give a little bit of a backstory first:

When I moved here in 2014, I didn't know anyone and didn't know anything about any local fur communities. In 2015, I got online one day and met a local fur who had the same issues as I did. And we started hanging out for a few months. It was a great time! But we thought that if we found each other, there must be other furs out in our area of Schenectady and Albany. So we got together one day, sat down, and planned this whole group out. We couldn't find a community, so we decided to make our own and see what we could grow. We learned that there were lots of others in the area just like us! All wanting to hang out and go do fun things together with other furs, but didn't want to travel out of the area to attend meets or weren't able to make it out to conventions. So we welcomed those local furs with open arms. One of our first planned events was attending Chase Comic Con together in Saratoga as a group. It was really nice. Word started to spread about our group and we grew with even more members. We had meets like Picnics, Escape Rooms, Dinner meets, Pool Parties, Movie days. It was very pleasant. We were very happy to bring this to our local fur community. The Upstate NY Furs was and still is one of the best things to happen around this area. And I can't thank it's members enough for their hard work and contributions to the group and the events. We had so many good times, a lot of hardships, and a lot of small issues, but we all worked through it together. We were all a small family.

We started to grow and gain more members. And since Upstate is very broad, we had a ton of people joining our group from outside our area. Some a bit farther than others. The way we did our early meets was through polls and voting. However, some members skewed the votes a bit since they weren't from our area and that threw off some of the balance of the votes that actually counted. So meets in some areas were downvoted by people who were from Watertown or Syracuse or places farther away from us. We did have a very dedicated member from Syracuse, and they attended almost every meet. I do appreciate their efforts a lot, they were incredibly friendly.


So, getting back to the point of this Journal.

This group was originally founded to host events, meets, and general hangouts for members of the Albany, Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga areas. That is the Capital Region. Upstate NY was just too broad of an area and we had members that wondered why we didn't have events in their area of Upstate. It's unfortunate that we couldn't expand farther out. But the group was created so that the Local furs of the Capital Region didn't have to travel any great distances to hang out or attend meets. So now we are trying to work to better represent the Capital Region.

We also have transitioned our Telegram group from the Upstate NY Furs to the NY Capital Region Furs. To be more centralized on our area specifically. The Telegram group is a tool for the furs in the immediate local area to be able to plan events and chat with local furs in a safe atmosphere. Which is why we ask for the area which you are from upon joining. There are other chats out there for New York, but this group is geared more towards the immediate Albany/Schenectady/Troy/Saratoga areas. Generally 30 mins to an hour away from our immediate area is fairly acceptable.

We hope you understand the need for this transition. We are trying to work towards a more efficient local group that is true to it's original purpose in bringing the Capital Region together.

Thank you for watching this page and thank you for taking the time to read this.

~NY Capital Region Fur Admins



Our new page is:

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/nyc.....talregionfurs/