Comment Re:Where have they gone? To the ether... (Score 1) 552
That's funny... I thought Albany was prosperous because of the Hudson River, the Rockefeller family with their railroad business, and Thomas Edison with his electric company. A quick peak at Wiki supports your claims, though. Nonetheless, being familiar with the area I guess it goes to show that cities need to evolve or die just like companies and countries do. I went to RPI for 4 years from 2001 to 2005 and during my tenure in Troy I watched it get nicer and nicer as the school poured money into the town improving campus as well as some hot spots downtown. I must say, though, that 4th street east of downtown looked like hell when I drove through in May. Many of those apartment tenements need to be torn down.