Downtown Albany pt. 2

My travels led me back to downtown Albany (and eventually on a return trip to Crossgates Mall for a coffee refill, but that's neither here nor there).
Sundays are the deadest days in downtown Albany (followed only by Saturdays), but there were still plenty of streetscape and architecture shots to be had. 

Alfred E. Smith Building with reflective pond. The name of each county in New York State is chisled into the marble running around the front and sides of the building.

State Street looking downhill from the Capitol Building lawn

Wedding party on State Street

Capitol Building at night (neither of my daytime attempts were worthy of the blog)

Albany City Hall

State Street downhill at night

Washington Park

Washington Park is Albany's equivalent of Central Park. It has been public property since Albany's 1682 city charter, and was expanded through the 19th century. Washington Park sits in the middle of Albany, between Center Square, just outside of downtown, and the Pine Hills neighborhood, just outside the SUNY Albany student ghetto.

 

Albany Plan of Union Avenue - named for Ben Franklin's 1754 idea to unite the 13 British colonies under a single unified government. We all know what that led to.

Washington Park Promenade

Promenade leading up to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument

The Moses Fountain

 

Hudson Avenue with Corning Tower in the foreground

Afternoon in Center Square

Center Square is a compact neighborhood wedged between Washington Park and Empire State Plaza, just outside of downtown Albany. It was also my home for a few months in the mid-aughts, so I swing by whenever I'm in town.

Tree-lined Willett Street. One of very few Albany streets with NYC-style apartment buildings

A half block up Willett Street

The Village in the City

Lark Street balconies

I used to live here - 256 State Street, Apt. 9

Downtown Albany

Your Humble Photographer is in the Capital District, visiting some college friends and enjoying a belated birthday celebration.
Before heading up to the Saratoga area to see them, I spent part of the afternoon in downtown Albany, walking around and taking pictures. What downtown Albany on a Saturday afternoon lacks in people, it somewhat makes up for in still lifes.

Albany's concrete canyon

Pearl Street heading south 

North Pearl Street at Sheridan Avenue

The Palace Theater

Still life of a still bar