Broadway

BROADWAY, once the easternmost street of the stockaded city was always a center of commercial activity. As the city expanded northward after the American Revolution, Broadway became the southern end of the Watervliet Turnpike, which paralleled the Hudson River for about eight miles to its northern terminus in present-day Watervliet. About one mile north of…

North Pearl Street

NORTH PEARL STREET, part of the Downtown Albany National Register Historic District, was once the major retail street of both the city and the region. With the decline of central cities nationwide, the street hit upon hard times in the 1960s and ’70s. A revival of sorts is going on today, although current retail sales…