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In reply to <a href="https://hoxsie.org/2025/04/24/amsterdam-heiress-prisoner-of-the-nazis/#comment-201672">Carol Wolff</a>. Thanks, I appreciate that!
26.4.2025 17:16Comment on Amsterdam Heiress: Prisoner of the Nazis by Carl JohnsonFascinating article.
26.4.2025 14:57Comment on Amsterdam Heiress: Prisoner of the Nazis by Carol WolffThe challenge in researching a site like this is that as I try to work on one thing, I get distracted by six or seven other things – as I dug deep through articles about the area’s early airports, for example, I tripped on several completely unrelated articles of interest – and then as I […]
24.4.2025 12:55Amsterdam Heiress: Prisoner of the NazisIn reply to <a href="https://hoxsie.org/2013/04/03/albany_institutions/#comment-201361">John Levandow</a>. Looks to me like it was 140 New Scotland Avenue until about 1960 when it moved to 60 Academy Road.
13.4.2025 16:44Comment on Albany institutions: where are they now? by Carl Johnsoni am looking for information about the Albany home for children, in the 1960's
12.4.2025 23:13Comment on Albany institutions: where are they now? by John Levandowi am looking for the address of the albany home for children, in the 1960's
12.4.2025 22:49Comment on Albany institutions: where are they now? by John LevandowI worked as a young attorney at 65 Second St. and had a small office in the room that had the quote "hang care, care would kill a cat" inscribed over the fireplace there were bars on the windows it was a beautiful building
11.4.2025 15:03Comment on William Kemp and his 65 Second Street Home by James J. BreartonIn reply to <a href="https://hoxsie.org/2017/07/05/the-dunn-memorial-bridge/#comment-201281">Matthew Stephen Urban</a>. My guess would be that while it was built the same time as the original Dunn, opening in 1933, it was built high enough above the river to not require a draw to allow river traffic through – and so the bridge operations weren't a hindrance to auto traffic, unlike the Dunn.
9.4.2025 00:59Comment on The Dunn Memorial Bridge by Carl JohnsonWhy didn't they also replace it's sister bridge, the Menands Bridge as well.
8.4.2025 23:31Comment on The Dunn Memorial Bridge by Matthew Stephen UrbanI am wondering where President Nott resided before he moved into what is now the President’s House on campus. I think it might have been 709 Union Street, a few houses down from the corner of Union Street and Seward Place. (The address was 185 Union Street before the numbering of the houses on Union street was changed.) I’ve seen several sources that refer to this house as the “President’s House” and say that it was possibly built by President Nott. One source, not necessarily definitive, is the Union Street Historic District, National Register of Historic Places, Department of the Interior. Another source, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Street_Historic_District_(Schenectady,_New_York), says, “President's House, 709 Union Street. A two-story Gothic Revival home built ca. 1860, possibly for Eliphalet Nott,…”
7.4.2025 20:13Comment on The Life of Eliphalet Nott by Shelton SchmidtIn reply to <a href="https://hoxsie.org/2014/01/27/the_mysterious_anneke_jans/#comment-190059">Roeliff Jansen — The Man, the Myth and the Missus | The Historians of Hillsdale, New York</a>. Thank you
2.4.2025 02:06Comment on The mysterious Anneke Jans by BrigitteThis is just one of those intriguing little articles that caught my eye while working on something else – an article headlined “‘Antique’ Phone Booth Installed In Stockade.” Dated February 6, 1963, the Schenectady Gazette reported that New York Telephone had installed a red-and-white, shingle-roofed “antique” telephone booth at Front and North Ferry streets. “At […]
24.2.2025 17:30The Stockade’s Antique Phone BoothLately this photo has been popping up on various social media, reminding me that a long time ago, before this improbably named site began, I did a little digging into the stories behind the photograph on my personal blog, and I thought it was time to take another look. First, a little background. This isn’t […]
29.1.2025 15:01Albany Newsboys, 1910I’ve written briefly before about a building I never saw, and miss all the same: the Albany Savings Bank building on North Pearl Street. This time, despite my resolution to make these postings pithier, I’m taking a bit of a deep dive into the history of the bank and its buildings. The Beginnings: Saturday Night […]
9.1.2025 18:47Lost Landmark: Albany Savings BankLast time, we talked about the remarkable wig giveaway of 1970 at the Mohawk National Bank of Schenectady – and that led me to dig a little bit into the history of the bank that was once an anchor of lower State Street and is now, like nearly all local banks, long gone. According to […]
23.12.2024 12:30Mohawk National Bank of SchenectadyWay back when, it was quite usual for banks to offer some kind of incentive for opening a new account. Premiums like toasters, golf umbrellas, pen and pencil sets were frequently offered. That’s less common now, as the incentives are more likely to be straight up cash or gift cards, but our little local bank […]
16.12.2024 12:30Open an account, get a . . . free wig?Thanks again to the Culinary Institute of America’s digital menu collection, we have this incredible (but undated) menu from the Hudson River Night Line. The last night boat ran in 1941, and the line had lost considerable glamor in the Depression years, so we’re going to guess this was from the 1920s or earlier. Travelers […]
20.11.2024 12:30Dining on the Night LineBy complete accident of algorithm, I recently discovered that the Hudson Valley’s Culinary Institute of America has a website featuring historic menus, and happily some of them are from local institutions. So here’s one, unfortunately without a specific date, from Schenectady’s Van Curler Hotel. When the Van Curler was opened in 1925, it was a […]
14.11.2024 12:30A Meal at the Van Curler HotelJust a little snippet from the old hometown, way back in 1933, when a “medium” from Hampton Manor was accused of swindling an Albany widower – a widower who, it must be said, really wasn’t hard to swindle. Whether it was age, grief or simple stupidity, the news accounts of the day give no hint. […]
11.11.2024 12:30“She’s honest and all right”I was going through my ideas files when I ran across an 1834 map with details about the Erie Canal from various local communities. It turned out I had already written about the maps themselves for Albany, Watervliet, and Schenectady – but that’s okay, because what I really wanted to emphasize was the incredible, simple beauty […]
6.11.2024 12:00Beautiful Details from Schenectady, 1834