One of the things that may not always be obvious is that in a world that was run on hayburners, someone had to provide the hay, even in the center of the city. E.I. McClasky was one of the feed dealers who kept the horses fed. I’m not at all sure whether “city” hay scales were in any way different from country hay scales, but I suspect the residents of 1863 Albany would have had opinions about that.
Philip Street still exists, but Plain Street, which ran between South Pearl and Eagle and was one of the earliest streets to be paved, is now buried under the South Mall Arterial.