Albany, NY

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York’s Capital District. Roughly 135 miles (217 km) north of the City of New York, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. The population of the city was 97,856 at the time of the 2010 census.

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Tonight at Sunset – July 15, 2021

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Going to be sultry summer evening tonight 🌇

Heading home now on the local bus, 🚍 and then after dinner I’ll take a book 📙 down to the park 🏞.

At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 80 degrees. The dew point will be 71 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph.

We will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 33% illuminated. At 5 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (164°) at an altitude of 49° from the horizon, some 231,086 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by January 7th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west (271°) at 11:58 pm. The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Saturday, July 24. Buck yeah, that’s my summer vacation. Party all night. Just like the horney bucks.

Albany Lumberyard (1857 vs. 2017)

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Near the intersection of Colonie and Water Street, under Interstate 787 near the long vacant Albany Cold Storage Building was the start of the original Erie Canal and the Albany Lumberyard, where lumber products were transferred from small boats on canal to larger vassels heading down the Hudson River.

Long since filled in with urban debris, the area is now home to Interstate 787, along with several industrial facilities and warehouses. Facilities include a DEC Warehouse with records storage, a NYS Assembly printing plant, the City of Albany maintaince garage and a now closed city landfill that was used for many years for emergency demolitions.

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Oldest Streets in Albany 🏘

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Oldest Streets in Albany 🏘

This is a listing of the streets in Albany with the oldest median year of building construction from City Tax Records. Albany’s tax records aren’t very good for building construction dates back in the 1800s, but they do give you an idea where some of the oldest buildings within the city are located.

Street Median Year of Building Construction
Quackenbush Sq 1800
Clinton Pl 1832
Schuyler St 1835
Clinton St 1845
Wilson St 1846
Ludlow Aly 1847
Madison Pl 1848
Green St 1850
Bleecker Pl 1851
Columbia Pl 1852
Philip St 1859
Boice St 1860
Eagle St 1860
Grand St 1860
Plum St 1860
Ten Broeck St 1860
Hall Pl 1865
Catherine St 1870
Colonie St 1870
Fourth Ave 1870
S Swan St 1870
Elm St 1871
Jefferson St 1872
Browne St 1872
Orange St 1872
Jay St 1873
Third Ave 1873
Trinity Pl 1873
Stephen St 1875
Hamilton St 1876
Willett St 1879
Dove St 1879

Zoom challenges

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One of the challenges that I have with the online maps is getting the maps to look the same on different screen sizes. The solution is to set the viewport by the bounding box rather than the zoom level but that can still cause problems like leaving the map too zoomed on for a layer or in the case of the comparison layer but not always obvious how to do a scale comparison with modifying the zoom levels.