I-787 📍

Interstate 787 is sometimes known as the Riverfront Route, and connects the New York State Thruway to Downtown Albany, Rensselaer, Watervliet, and Troy. Often controversial, as it blocks access to the Hudson River, and is noisy and ugly.

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Fort Disney on the Hudson | News | troyrecord.com

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Don Rittner: Fort Disney on the Hudson | News | troyrecord.com

The state and city blew it once before when Fort Orange was rediscovered in 1968 by historian John Wolcott. Wolcott had pinpointed the site on a 1790 map drawn by Simeon Dewitt, a meticulous Albany surveyor.

Wolcott submitted his map to a Department of Transportation official and Paul Huey, an archeologist who later oversaw the Fort Orange excavations.

Wolcott's map helped Huey convince DOT to allow excavations, although DOT confined them to a small wedge of property.

Excavations occurred from September 1970 to March 1971. About 10 percent of the entire fort was excavated, according to a map published by Huey in the Dutch journal KNOB in Amsterdam in 1985.