It was 29 degrees at 5 p.m. last Friday when I parked across from 46 Ramsey Place, off New Scotland Avenue, in the Helderberg neighborhood in Albany.
A dozen adults in heavy parkas and winter hats clustered in a driveway around a table with cheese and crackers and a bright white lamp. Necklaces of colored Christmas lights bobbed in the darkness.
A woman arrived with a freshly baked loaf of cranberry bread…