ALBANY — The death knell is sounding for the Albany County Coroner’s Office.
The County Legislature is set to vote Monday on a measure that would replace the county’s four elected coroners with a medical examiner’s office. The move would abolish positions dating back to colonial times in favor of appointed medical doctors who would oversee the county’s death investigations.
The four men who serve as coroners take turns working on-call shifts so the office is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The job has taken County Coroner Kevin Crosier to murder scenes, car crashes, overdoses and workplace accidents. He was the coroner on the scene when Natalie Gillis, a Canadian pilot, was killed in a 2024 plane crash near Albany International Airport…