Odd-numbered years are often quiet ones for New York politics.

Sure, there’s the occasional county executive race that draws attention or a race for New York City mayor that’s competitive beyond the general election.

But on the local level? Ho hum.

That’s not the case in Troy, the small city on the Hudson River 10 minutes driving time north of Albany.

The race for mayor is drawing in a host of national issues on the city of about 49,000 or so people, from the interactions of police and civilians, to how local governments should approach its undocumented immigrant population.

At the same time, there have been allegations of political influence by Republicans to pressure the GOP candidate, Tom Reale, out of the race in order to improve the odds of unseating incumbent Democratic Mayor Patrick Madden.

Reale is formally re-entering the race Tuesday after initially dropping his bid. Madden, Reale and independent candidate Rodney Wiltshire will appear Wednesday in a Spectrum News debate at 7 p.m.

And the debate could be an interesting one.

Nationally, Troy gained some brief attention for the city hosting U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s presidential headquarters (she lives in a nearby exurban community).

The city is home to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a nationally renowned engineering school.

It’s also an aging post-industrial city with river frontage it has struggled to develop over the decades and working-class neighborhoods where more than few yard signs popped up in 2016 that were sympathetic to President Trump.

The city’s police department was under scrutiny for the death of Edson Thevenin, who was shot and killed by police in 2016.

The city’s politics were subsumed earlier this year by a debate over sanctuary status for interacting with federal immigration enforcement, a resolution that was later re-written with softer language, but rejected by Madden anyway.

And the city faces bread-and-butter issues: Infrastructure and the challenges of job creation in upstate among them.

All politics is, of course, local. But Troy has its share of rollicking issues that any community in this political age can relate to.