NY Capital Region Regional Specialties

My special someone hails for the Greater Albany area. At some point I had asked her about whether the Rochester/Syracuse areas regional hot dog specialty, a "red hot" or "white hot", topped with meat sauce, had ever made it down towards her area. To her knowledge, they hadn't.
For those who don't know, a red hot is usually a pork and beef dog, dyed to a bright red color, while the white hot is usually a variation of a bratwurst. The meat sauce in the area is often refered to as "greek based" for the prescence of some oregano and a sweeter taste. It may be similar to what they call Chili in the greater Cincinnati area, but usually with a little thicker consistancy and a darker color.
This week on serious eats, they had their "Hot Dog of the Week" which turned out to be Mini Hot Dogs from Troy, NY, which is in the greater Albany area. Featured mostly at the Troy Pork Store and a cool joint called Famous Lunch, the regional dog indeed made it down to Albany, but shrunk down in the transition. Here they are only 3 inches....(some say they are four inches)
Sadly, the Troy pork store has closed due to development, but Rolfs pork store remains.
Roadfoods Review of Famous Lunch
Lost Citys Famous Lunch
Rolfs Pork Store from Ridiculous Food Society
Rolfs Pork Store from All over Albany
Destruction of the nearly 200 Year old Troy Pork Store Apts.
Famous Lunch

The Great Mystery of the Coney Dog

I live in New York, not close, but not terribly far from Coney Island. If I go to one of my many local hot dog joints, including Nathans and order up a Coney Dog, however, they will look at me like I have 3 heads. Coney Dogs don't exist in New York City.

According to Wikipedia, a "Coney" is either a hot dog with onions, mustard and Chili, or in parts of New York (those parts of New York nowhere near Coney Island) it is a white hot dog, aka a "white hot" which is really sort of a baby Bratwurst.

The places that have Coneys completely surround New York. You can find them in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey and reach far out in the midwest. For me to have one though, I have to wait for my big road trip coming up.