By Paul Smart
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Capital Neighbors, Albany’s quarterly city newspaper, has two key stories in their free spring issue that highlight problems in their city’s red ex program for identifying blighted properties, and the effects that and other policies are having on downtown real estate values. There’s even a step-by-step action plan for ways of moving beyond challenges of […]
The Capital District YMCA posted a letter to its members in its North Albany branch on Wednesday announcing that in light of the sale of its building to the Albany School District for use as a new middle school, it would be pursuing “a new multi-faceted approach to enhance services to serve more children in […]
The Times Union reports that a gun buyback program held in Troy’s Dept. of Public Works parking lot on Thursday brought in 71 firearms. The event was sponsored by the Troy mayor’s office, the Rensselaer County district attorney’s office, the Troy African American Pastoral Alliance, Bishop Norman Macklin of New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, and […]
Abandonment of Albany’s South End neighborhoods by major corporations continues with the early November closing of a Stewarts’ store on Morton Avenue, not long since Rite Aid pulled out from its franchise on South Pearl. Augmenting the two losses is the shifting of the state DMV offices on South Pearl, which are moving to Central […]
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