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Barbara Sweet's avatar

Very special column today, sorry to read the facts, but certainly applaud your factual detail.

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Bob's avatar

Poor Albany!

As an upstate New York state city, it's routinely disparaged by NYC residents as a provincial backwater populated by Sears & Roebuck brown suit-wearing rubes (e.g. Ed Koch's critique). And some folks in the upstate of New York criticize Albany as a failed government experiment with urban-renewal mutations of the Empire State Plaza and 787 elevated blockade separating the city from its heritage on the Hudson river.

As for me, I'll always value the time my spouse and I lived in Albany, in the early 1980's, on Washington Park. We found the brownstone townhouses along the and on the side streets to be quite charming, the South Mall impressive (it will always be the South Mall to me), and the shops and restaurants on Lark Street enjoyable.

If that makes me a brown suit-wearing rube, or government apologist, then so be it.

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