Culture

Museums

• The Fenton History Center is named for former resident Reuben Fenton, the 25th Governor of New York.
• The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center is dedicated to the city's best-known daughter, Lucille Ball, and held a ceremony in honor of what would have been Ball's 100th birthday in August 2011. As of 2016, a National Comedy Center and Museum of National Comedy in honor of Lucille Ball is being planned and built on the corner of Second and Washington Streets. This is adjacent to the newly renovated Train Station. Washington Street Bridge has also recently been fully rebuilt and renovated and renamed the Luci Desi Bridge in preparation for the grand opening in 2017. The National Comedy Center
• The Robert H. Jackson Center was built to preserve the life and legacy of Robert H. Jackson. Offering free lectures, tours, community events and a book shop. Educating the community about justice and tolerance with a continuing emphasis on the Nuremberg Trials. Free Lecture and panel discussion/ Community Event/ book review "Mission at Nuremburg" by Tim Townsend was presented in March 10, 2016 about the rights of prisoners to spiritual counsel. Representatives of all religious faiths came to discuss the conditions of forgiveness and spiritual counsel of the incarcerated. As 21 Nazi War Criminals underwent trial and awaited execution after the Nuremberg Trials for crimes against humanity and their role in the Holocaust, did they truly deserve to hear how much God loves them? The program focused on the ministry of two men during the Nuremberg Trials, Fr. Sixtus O'Connor and the Rev. Henry Gerecke, who were sent to spiritually tend to the 21 prisoners on trial beginning in 1945.^[28]
• The Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History^[29] continues the legacy of Roger Tory Peterson by promoting the teaching and study of nature, and to thereby create knowledge of and appreciation and responsibility for the natural world.
• The Lucile M. Wright Air Museum located at 300 North Main Street in downtown Jamestown. http://www.lucilemwrightairmuseum.org/
• The Jamestown Gateway Train Station located at 211-217 West Second Street in downtown Jamestown
• On August 2, 2015 construction began on The National Comedy Center which will be adjacent to the train station. The comedy center is expected to open in the spring of 2017.

Sports

Jamestown was the home city for the Jamestown Jammers baseball team of the New York–Penn League. The Jammers were the Single A Short Season affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Following the 2014 season, the Jammers announced that they would be relocating to Morgantown, West Virginia.^[30] It was later announced that a new team in the Prospect League would replace the Jammers, and the team would keep the name.
Jamestown is the current home of the Jamestown Chiefs, a semi-pro football team.^{[citation needed]}
Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena is a 1,900 seat ice arena in the city. Among the teams that have played in the arena as primary tenants included the Jamestown Ironmen of the North American Hockey League, the Jamestown Jets of the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League, the minor professional Jamestown Vikings of the Mid-Atlantic Hockey League, the Jamestown Titans of the North Eastern Hockey League and the current Southern Tier Xpress of the North American 3 Hockey League.
Jamestown High School's boys and girls basketball teams have both won numerous Sectional and Division titles, with the basketball team winning back to back Section VI titles in 2009–10, 2010–11 while reaching the NYSPHSAA Class AA State Championship in 2011. The High School football team has been to five New York State Championships, losing in 1993, and winning in 1994, 1995, 2000 and 2014.
Jamestown hosted its 15th Babe Ruth World Series in August 2011.^[31]
Jamestown hosted, at the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena, three exhibition games prior to the start of the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Retail

Chautauqua Mall is located in nearby Lakewood.
The first Jamesway store opened in Jamestown. It later relocated to Chautauqua Mall.