Living near a superhighway can be convenient, but it's also can be unhealthy. Noise pollution and air emissions can lead to a shorter lifespan. The greatest impacts of highway pollution are felt by people who live, work, or recreate within 1,000 feet of a limited-access road.
Data Source: Open Street Map, Motorway and Motorway_Links, with a 1,000 feet buffer.
New York Route 10 is often said to be the last paved state highway in New York when the Glen Harris Highway was paved north of Arietta up through Piseco Lake in the early 1980s.
Due to constitutional constraints relating to the road running through forest preserve, with few exceptions, almost all of modern asphalt road follows the path of the dirt road, although during construction they did bank the curves and widen the road slightly from the horse and buggy road that existed in almost the same form since the 1800s.
I have the 1904 topographic maps of the area too but due to issues with the original map survey, the overlay is more difficult to do accurately compared to the more modern 1954 survey.
The modern alignment is shown in orange while the topographic map below is from 1954.
There used to be an impressive amount of railroad mileage in New York State in 1910, as seen in on this old Rand McNally map of railroads in the state.
This map shows highly detailed contours for the East Barrens of the Albany Pine Bush.
Data Source: NYS GIS Program Office. NYS LIDAR Coverage. http://gis.ny.gov/elevation/lidar-coverage.htm
If you don't own a car, there is only a few parts of Albany where you can walk a short distance to get to a supermarket.
Green areas are those within a 10 minute walk of a major supermarket -- Price Chopper, Hannaford, Tops, Shop-Rite, or Walmart.
