For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
Landlords in Albany and Troy who lease downtown office space to the state must feel as if they’re wearing big bull’s-eyes on their backs now that New York is “restacking” workers in state-owned buildings.
A loom fixer for an Amsterdam carpet mill set up shop as a gunsmith in 1948 and then made his living building custom rifles and repairing firearms until his death in 1960.
With two regional teams playing in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI, and with the radio station carrying the broadcast, it only made sense for FOX Sports 980 (WOFX) to have a preview show.
WOFX will have the “FOX Sports 980 Super Bowl Tailgater” from noon-2 p.m. Sunday.
When it’s your box of crayons, you get to draw the lines. And so it was this week as the Assembly Democrats and the Senate Republicans released their “lines,” which is shorthand among the political hangers-on at the Capitol for redistricting.
One of the most popular events on the Huck Finn/Northeast Bowling Proprietors of New York schedule will once again be close to a full house.
The annual Super Bowl Doubles tournament, set for this weekend at Boulevard Bowl, has already closed out its 10 a.m. qualifier for Sunday morning with 60 teams.
Pamela May has spent two decades helping lenders sell foreclosed residential property, a job you’d think would keep her hopping about now, in the aftermath of the housing boom and bust.
Tryon County, created in 1772, was named for New York’s British colonial governor, William Tryon, and included a large part of what is now New York state west of Albany County.
Gerry Kehn, a driver in Troy for the Capital District Transportation Authority, got a commendation this week for his role after a stabbing there on the day after Thanksgiving.
NBC Sports Group has horse racing’s Triple Crown. It televises a series of races from Saratoga Race Course and Keeneland. So, why shouldn’t NBC have horse racing’s biggest spectacle?
On Monday, NBC Sports reacquired the rights to televise to the Breeders’ Cup World Championship.
MacKenzie Perkett, a Lake George senior and one of the top Alpine skiers in Section II, is the granddaughter of Don Metivier, who died in 2007 at the age of 70. Metivier wasn’t a ski racer, but he had more connections to the ski racing world — and more affection for the sport — than anyone I ever knew.
Hometown veterinarians have reason to look over their shoulder as the likes of Target, Walmart, Kroger and Walgreens move into filling prescriptions for pets — a profit center for many vets.
