I told Kathy Sheehan to pick any spot in the city that she was most proud of, a place that exemplified her 12-year tenure as Albany’s mayor, which ends on Dec. 31.
So we have come on a wintry Sunday afternoon to West Hill with its seemingly intractable problems: drugs and gangs, gun violence, abandoned buildings, decades of disinvestment, grinding poverty and the other cumulative effects of systemic racism.
I parked behind Sheehan’s older-model black Ford Explorer — she never wanted a city vehicle — at the corner of Livingston and North Lake avenues…