Empire State Plaza
Campfire
Just watching the campfire crackle as I was camping up along West Kill Road.
Downtown Albany Take Area
Empire State Plaza take area, Albany, NY
This is a stitch of ten sheets of a Sanborn fire insurance map showing the area demolished for the Empire State Plaza in 1962 in Albany, NY Uploaded by Dave Hochfelder to Map Warper, showing his beautiful work as an overlay here. Get the original warped map here: https://mapwarper.net/maps/31269
Splash
The South Mall Project: Hope or Hoax? (1962, special)
"On the evening of Saturday, July 14, 1962βjust days after the first South Mall demolitionβWRGB TV, Channel Six, aired a half-hour documentary called The South Mall Project: Hoax or Hope? We found what we think is the only extant copy of the documentary in the papers of Grant Van Patten at University of Albanyβs Special Collections department. Grant produced and directed it, and we had the good fortune to interview him at his home in Clifton Park in the summer of 2016. We enjoyed spending time with him and were sorry to learn that he died earlier this year."
Read more about this here: https://98acresinalbany.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/hoax-or-hope/