A Boot Scrape in Albanate
July 26, 2008
July 24, 2008
A' Hu~
So I was a little rude on Albany the other day, O’Albany, she has a few nuggets tucked in her rushes. Two doorways I reckon. Found these birds on the same damn twig – now that urban-renewal buckshot didn’t clean the tree entirely. The crust is still thin, fruit a lil’ too tangy, but these two are Delish!.
July 14, 2008
Albany 1789
If I haven't stated this, I will now. They took Albany, put its Wild West Dutch Ass over a barrel and took the beating heart right out. There is no historic architecture left in Albany. Yes, Yes, some. But periphery, residential neighborhoods & a small amount of industrial, most of which dates post 1840. Sadly, wonderful Italianate brownstones don't constitute a historic building core for a 300 year old city. One of the oldest and most beautiful churches in Albany, 1 block from the Broeck Mansion decays St Josephs, a 3 steeple perch on Arbor Hil, boarded up since 1994 . Think of the old city of Quebec, but bigger, Dutch, and somehow frontier American. The farms, bricks, canal, and railroads. The dutch homes you see, & are described, below. All bulldozed. Hundreds of years of bad planning has taken the life from this town. Its still losing population. 2 hours north of nyc. Even Historic Albany, the one preservation advocacy organization (charged with stewardship of St Josephs) let its webpage expire in June. The following text and engraving are from 1789.
From the Albany 1756 census: "A List of the Inhabitants of the Citty of Albany in America with the Number of Troops they can Quarter conveniently within the Stockade and what they can Quarter in Case of necessity together with the fireplaces in Each house and Rooms without Fire, also what Rooms were occupied by the Respective Families as it appeared on a street Enquiry made in November 1756 . . . . . To which is added an Alphabetical List in Order more readily to find the peoples names, also an abstract of the number of Officers and men the Town can Quarter. N.B. Officers quarters are hearby understood to be Single Rooms.
Albany in 1828. House of the Dutch Governors.
June 05, 2008
The Making of Empire State Plaza
the pastures, from the roof of the capital, pre-plaza.
the best one article look you can get of the atrocity that is the plaza.
17th Century Wood Frames
Albany
from the Colonial Albany Project
June 04, 2008
German Prefab in Albany
lifted from Art Deco in Albany, by Walter Richard Wheeler, published by the Historic Albany Foundation.
O' Albany
Almost a decade of working in the City of New York, the transplant has gone thru, I/m living at my 1807 in Hudson, and Albany is where I work. LMFAO. Weird. Anyways! Lots of good old urban shit coming outta Albany and Hudson. We'll be there, bitches. Along with all that new country love
January 31, 2007
Mohawk Indian Deed, 1732
"The deed conveys a tract of land adjacent to the Mohawk River and East Canada Creek to the Reverend Petrus Van Driesen, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Albany, and to the Reverend Johannes Ehl, a Dutch Reformed minister in the Palatine District of the Mohawk Valley."
