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.
PHOTO BY S. TOMMER/COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, center, Albany Mayor Erastus
Corning, left, and Lt. Gov. Malcom Wilson appear at the
unveiling of the South Mall model in the Capitol on April 23, 1963.
