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.
Joan Steitz of Yale University, left, and Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California-San Francisco talk at a news conference Friday morning at the Hilton Garden Inn at Albany Medical Center after being named the first female recipients of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.