A city-owned parking lot on the Albany waterfront has been reconfigured to improve its internal traffic pattern and increase the number of spaces.
The half-acre lot is on the south side of Water Avenue between the Lyon and Ellsworth Street bridges. According to a site plan approved by the city planning division in January 2022, it was resurfaced and restriped for 75 spaces, up from 63 before.
The new layout improves the internal traffic pattern of the lot, reduces access points on Water Avenue to one, and eases the connections under the bridges to neighboring lots…