Returning from a visit to Deerfield Park last week, the bike and I stopped at an Albany oddity, a “permanent” public path that is indefinitely closed.
This is the walkway, 10 feet wide and 50 feet long, that used to connect Ermine Street with 36th Avenue opposite South Albany High School and the Community Pool.
This little strip of land was set aside when that section of Ermine, platted to continue south to 36th, was vacated instead in the 1970s…