Alfred E. Smith Building

The Alfred E. Smith Building, known officially as the Alfred E. Smith State Office Building and sometimes called simply the Smith Building, is a structure located in downtown Albany, New York across the street from the New York State Capitol and One Commerce Plaza.

The building’s namesake, Alfred Emmanuel Smith, was a four-term governor of New York and the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 1928 presidential election. The Art Deco skyscraper has 34 stories and at 388 feet (118 m) is Albany’s second tallest structure (after the Erastus Corning Tower).

Completed in 1928, it houses offices of the New York State government. Built originally with an observation deck on the 31st floor, the 350-foot-high (110 m) open-air deck was closed in 1976 when the 589-foot-tall (180 m) 42nd floor enclosed Corning Tower Observation Deck was opened. An extensive renovation of the building began in 2002. This modernization, which cost at least $103 million, is now finished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Smith_Building

Office life downtown

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I've really gotten to love my office downtown with the views of city skyline, but alas I'm packing up my office and getting ready to move onwards and upwards.

Taken on Tuesday December 19, 2023 at Alfred E. Smith Building.

Sunsets are getting later!

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Good news! Last night was the earliest sunset of the year in Albany. Sunset was a 4:22 PM yesterday. Today the sunset will be about 25 seconds later, for a sunset time of 4:23 PM. Daylight will be added slowly everyday to the end of the day, starting at about half a minute, accelerating to about two minutes by the first day of spring.

To be fair, daylight will be decreasing every day until about December 20th and won’t start growing until December 24th but the loss is in the morning and not in the evening. In the meantime, the sun’s position relative to the atmosphere bending will cause later sunsets.