
Albany Through Time
Don Rittner(Author)
America Through Time (Publisher)
Published on 24. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-68473-015-5 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the city's rich past through surviving landmarks along its historic main street.
Albany, New York, can be considered an eccentric city. While it is rich in history, those in power over the years have seen no reason to save it. Albanians love their history, yet politicians and business leaders, it seems, do not. Albany's four centuries of history can be revealed by simply walking up and down one street: Albany's main street, named State Street, originally called Yonkers Street ("Gentleman's Street" in Dutch). State Street is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide, packed with standing relics of this history. This book will take you through the centuries by showing maps, illustrations, and photos of that time period, with interesting bits of history associated with each. Many of the landmark buildings have been demolished over the years, so we can only honor and appreciate the ones that have survived with hopes that the wrecking ball will not take the rest.
Albany, New York, can be considered an eccentric city. While it is rich in history, those in power over the years have seen no reason to save it. Albanians love their history, yet politicians and business leaders, it seems, do not. Albany's four centuries of history can be revealed by simply walking up and down one street: Albany's main street, named State Street, originally called Yonkers Street ("Gentleman's Street" in Dutch). State Street is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide, packed with standing relics of this history. This book will take you through the centuries by showing maps, illustrations, and photos of that time period, with interesting bits of history associated with each. Many of the landmark buildings have been demolished over the years, so we can only honor and appreciate the ones that have survived with hopes that the wrecking ball will not take the rest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68473-015-5 (9781684730155)
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DON RITTNER is an author, environmentalist, documentarian, historian and archaeologist. He has authored more than 40 books and over 1000 articles in science, history, computers and the Internet. He published the first book to show the public how to use the Internet for a social cause (EcoLinking: Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information) in 1992. He was the producer of the documentaries, The Neighborhood That Disappeared and ECHOES From The Neighborhood That Disappeared that documented the displacement of 9000 immigrant families from Albany's South End during the construction of the Empire State Mall during the early 1960s.