Delmar is a hamlet in the Town of Bethlehem, in Albany County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of the neighboring city of Albany. The community is bisected by NY Route 443 (Delaware Avenue), a major thoroughfare, main street, and route to Albany.
A census-designated place (CDP) has been established since 1980 by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating the population of what the census has defined as the boundaries of the urbanized area in and around Delmar. The population was 8,292 at the 2000 census, but it was not included as a CDP in the 2010 census.
In 2005, CNN/Money Magazine named the Delmar ZIP Code (an area larger than the Delmar hamlet or CDP) as one of the “Best Places to Live” in America, rating it the 22nd best place to live among what it called “Great American Towns.
On snowy and icy days, and honestly any day, I do have to say I like being able to take the bus to work and not have to worry about cleaning off my pickup truck, and driving to work. I don’t have to gas up my truck, I don’t have to clean off the snow and ice, I don’t have to worry about slippery road conditions. I just walk down to the bus stop. I can use my phone on the way to work, I don’t have to pay attention to traffic or worry about getting a wreck, especially with so many very aggressive drivers in the city nowadays.
I certainly wouldn’t mind getting out of my apartment where I’m constantly fighting mildew downstairs with bleach or where the plaster continues to break and paint peals as everything rusts from the perpetual moisture problem this building has had since I’ve moved in. But my apartment is cheap and so convenient being near both an express bus line and local bus line. And I can walk to stores and the library – which is good because I don’t believe in having the internet at home.
I’d love to have land and a place that I could invest money into fixing up. Really there is no reason for me to even make the most minor of repairs to a place I rent. I’m going to lose any value from it when I move out. I’d love to be able to heat with wood or coal and not have to pay a fortune to local utility company to keep my place warm.
But I’m fine with things the way it is. And I sure like not having to worry about the winter weather…
The media does us a disservice in not fully explaining the pros and cons of the president’s decision to proclaim two new national monuments in the west. The public has a right to know the pros and cons of such a designation. An informed public is important, and no public policy is ever totally good or bad.
What does a national monument mean? Will the land forever be locked up as wilderness? What conventional multiple uses of these federal lands will be prohibited going forward. Do these changes make sense? What do the current users of the land currently think of the change? How does it impact the local community?
I don’t buy the argument that without a national monument designation the land will be turned into suburban subdivisions or intensive oil and gas development. I think that’s far from the truth, and I think the public dialogue would be moved forward if we had a full telling of the facts to see which side is right or wrong.
I’ve not made up my mind, but I would like to learn the full truth of the matter.
The world burns through 94 million barrels of oil daily which is equal to 157 million gallons of oil consumed per hour.
While oil is one of the top 20 most plentiful materials in the earth’s crust, you can understand why people are concerned about climate change with all the carbon dioxide released into the air.
This morning in 1969 was negative 22 degrees in Albany and the start of the 1969 blizzard in Albany. All traffic would be banned on Albany city streets until New Year’s Day, state government closed down for five days.
An exasperated Erastus Corning would tell a reporter asking for a time line on Albany snow removal: “If God put it here, God will take it away”. It wouldn’t be until the third week of January 1970 that all Albany streets would be free of snow. The city would spend over $2 million in 1969 dollars on snow removal for this one storm, which was bonded and paid off by taxpayers through the early 1980s.
