Albany — Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan walked along New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Albany NYS Assemblymember Gabriella Romero last week, surveying some of Albany’s community spaces both getting funding, and in need of funding.
The first, Frank Chapman Memorial Institute and Hood’s House of Hoops, of which received a $1 million grant for upgrades, and an additional $250,000 announced to help fund programing, after school enrichment for children and Senior lunches.
“We worked really closely with Coach Hood and the House of Hoops,” Sheehan said. “We invested a lot of money on that block in First Street. We ripped up the entire street, we paved it, we put in new sidewalks, we cut back the trees, we put in better lighting. Some of the issues that Coach Hood was talking about…this is a neighborhood that had a lot of vacancy and had been neglected for a very long time, but by his willingness to come there and bring activity there, we were able to justify saying ‘absolutely, it is long past time for the city to be coming alongside and making this investment.'”…