On January 23, 1961, an Albany Knickerbocker News editorial was cautiously optimistic about the “New Albany”. Rocky and Nelson would get along and Albany would re-invent itself.
January 23, 1961
Downtown merchants would be surveyed to determine what they saw as their needs and the needs of the City.
January 24, 1961
Plans to create “by pass” highways in Delmar and Slingerlands were well underway. These roadsed would allow commuters to bypass Albany city streets to reach the their suburbs.
January 26, 1961
January 30, 1961
Another sign that things were moving along was the announcement on January 27 that about 120 applicants for the new the high rise projects had been approved. The first 100 apartments were scheduled for residence in March
January 27, 1961.
The optimism was contagious. Mr. Swartz , owner of Swartz & Levinson Shoe’s, was planning to open a new resraurant, Hugh Denniston’s, on Green St, . in the Capitol Hotel. (Hugh Denniston’s was the name of the tavern in which George Washington was presented with the keys to Albany when he and Marha came to the city for the baptism of the daughter of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler in 1789.)
Promise and hope was in the air. This was gonna work. And so January 1961 ended in Albany.
January 30, 1061
January 30, 1961
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