Downtown Albany in 1952
Overlay of Downtown Albany in 1952 over contemporary aerial photo. Switch to alternative base layers in the right-hand corner layer button or adjust transparency on the bottom.
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Corning Tower Shadow
This shows an analysis of the maximum point of shadow at 2 PM from the Corning Tower in Downtown Albany. As one might guess, the shadow is much shorter in the summer due to the higher elevation of the sun. There are two separate sun paths, reflecting the later hour during daylight savings time in the summer.
Empire Plaza Area 1952
This shows the Empire State Plaza Area in 1952.
Downtown Albany, NY, 1952
Uploaded by Richard Welty. (In 1 layer) Depicts: 1952 Last modified about 1 year ago. 8 control points.
Data Source: Map Warper. https://mapwarper.net/maps/44094
Beaver Kill in Albany
Today if you went Downtown you would be hard pressed to find much of the Beaver Kill or Beaver Creek. Most of it is buried in the Big C Pipe, although they are proposing to daylight part of it in Lincoln Park during the coming years. Probably the best place to see it would be in what is now Washington Park Lake.
Data Source: 1866 Beers Map of Albany from the New York Public Library, georefrenced, traced and overlaid on a contemporary aerial photo and LIDAR hillshade.
State Office Campus vs Empire State Plaza
As you can see, the State Office Campus is far larger than a good portion of Downtown Albany.
Ezra Price Apartments and Mount Hope Development
It looks like Ezra Price was constructed around 1967, while the Mount Hope Development row houses were built from 1964-1970. Probably a subsidized development to make up for losses to downtown's residential core when the Empire State Plaza was built. I'm interested and trying to dig more into details.
Some history about Ezra Price and his estate in Mount Hope during the 1830s: https://friendsofalbanyhistory.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/albanys-mount-hope-and-ezra-prentice/