And what a City Hall it was
As I mentioned not too long ago, Troy did once have a magnificent City Hall. It was located at the corner of Third and State, where Barker Park is today, […]
As I mentioned not too long ago, Troy did once have a magnificent City Hall. It was located at the corner of Third and State, where Barker Park is today, […]
I’ve always been vaguely aware of this classic Greek revival building on the lower block of Union Street in Schenectady’s Stockade. For as long as I could remember, it housed […]
This is a view of the corner of North Pearl and Columbia streets, sometime in the late 1800s. I presume it’s the northwest corner, across Columbia from the Kenmore. None […]
As I’ve said before, back in the late ’50s my grandfather owned a small restaurant in Aqueduct. Here’s the receipt from his application to the Town of Niskayuna for a […]
I’ve posted this before at the other blog, but it’s been a while and it’s a natural for Hoxsie.The things you run into when you’re cleaning up your hard drive. […]
In 1935, Niagara Hudson was only about 6 years old, having consolidated 59 little utilities into an electric and gas behemoth that reached across the state. In this area it […]
Once was the time when buildings like Albany’s National Savings Bank building held more business than all of downtown holds today. (More than any of your suburban office parks, either.) […]
This article originally appeared at All Over Albany. It came to a great conclusion that happened to be wrong; shortly after publication, I learned that in fact the oldest business […]
This brilliant ghost sign from Pressman’s Army & Navy Store on Third Street in Troy was visible for many years from the parking lot for Troy Savings Bank. Unfortunately, recent […]
In 1888, the city of Albany had about 95,000 people living within its borders (already having dropped to 29th place among cities). So what were the newspaper options for those […]