Albany ny

[mstem58]

grabbed the camera, went to empire state plaza and atop erastus corning II tower to get some shots of my home city since 1999,
Albany is building a new convention center.

DSCN7972 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view is looking east towards times union arena and convention center construction. Shot from the empire plaza.


DSCN7979 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view at empire state plaza of tower II and tower III, basically gov't state office bldgs.


DSCN7981 by mark stempien, on Flickr
south mall apartment bldgs


DSCN7991 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view of convention center construction. building at upper left is the former
dewitt clinton hotel, it's recently been renovated into a rennaisance hotel.


DSCN7993 by mark stempien, on Flickr
city hall is the romanesque building with clock tower to the right.


DSCN7995 by mark stempien, on Flickr
from left to right, state tower, commerce plaza (affectionately "twin towers" ), state education bldg, state capitol.


DSCN7999 by mark stempien, on Flickr
overall view of downtown, hudson river to the right, view is looking north.


DSCN8005 by mark stempien, on Flickr
Albany has a lot of row house type bldgs, this is the intersection of grand and madison.


DSCN8018 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view looking east towards hudson river. times union arena is at the bottom.
SUNY hdqrtrs is upper center.


DSCN8024 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view looking north showing broadway, city in far background is troy ny.


DSCN8023 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view of former livingston middle school. closed awhile back, since renovated into the livingston apts. nys thruway I-90 barely visible just above this bldg.


DSCN8022 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view looking nnw of corporate woods, an office park on the north edge of Albany.


DSCN8025 by mark stempien, on Flickr
view at empire state plaza mall, nys capitol bldg.
I guess they haven't filled in the water yet.


Hope you enjoyed!

[fflint]

Looking good. Always nice to see Albany on the forum.

[lio45]

Nice pics!

I see that that building on Orange St. that I was looking at when I was looking at the market a couple years ago is still standing. Does the land bank program work well? I hate the thought of the city losing more rowhouses.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Albany definitely hits above its weight as far as urbanity goes. Thanks for the tour and info.

[Murphy de la Sucre]

Some clear views of typical matchbox houses composing typical street blocks.

[mstem58]

thought I'd post this again, remind me that despite the below zero temperatures now, it does get warmer here. Days are getting longer.