Starbuck Island some 65 years apart. Drag between the aerials.

Above is an interactive photo of the Hudson Valley Community College. The view on the left is from the late 2010s, while the view on the right is as it looked in mid-1990s. By clicking on the layers button in the upper right hand corner, you can load contemporary images or scroll to anywhere else in the state. Uses the WMS-feed from NYS GIS.

Here is kind of a classic example of wetlands being developed in this comparison between the 1996 and 2021 aerial imagery of the Brunswick Walmart.

It seems very wasteful of urban downtown space in Troy that the CDTA Troy Bus Depot is located at the base of the Hoosick Street Interstate 787 Bridge, but it was a neighborhood that was demolished decades earlier under one of many failed urban renewal projects in the city.

A look at urban renewal in Troy.