How often do you need to travel there? How long do you typically stay? Depending on the situation, pursuing a pilot's license might actually be practical, but probably not. If you can restrict your travel to daytime hours, you might get away with a Sport Pilot's license, but that's a few thousand bucks at least. And renting an aircraft ain't cheap either--$100/hour and up, plus fuel costs. And you have to deal with weather. Also, keep in mind that you won't save *that* much time--in a small aircraft you're probably looking at 1.5-2 hours in the air, plus time to get to the airport in Albany, plus all the pre-flight routine, plus travel time once you arrive in Buffalo/Rochester.
There were rumblings a while back about an "Uber for airplanes," but the FAA shut that down pretty quickly.