Wedged between two rail lines, this Albany property may have space for eight apartments.
When actual news takes place, you can usually find me elsewhere. On Saturday, for instance the bike and I checked on an out-of-the way corner of Albany we had visited almost exactly a year before.
This is a vacant piece of land at the unimproved east end of Water Avenue. The site measures about one-third of an acre and is triangular in shape, with the eastern tip of the triangle pointing at where two rail lines converge at Davidson Street.
A year ago the City of Albany had just approved dividing the piece into two separate lots. Now the Salem owner has put the property on the market for $125,000. (The real estate agent’s website says the asking price had been reduced by $15,000.) The owner, a limited liability company, bought the land for $56,000 in 2020.
The ad also has a suggestion for how the land could be developed. It shows a site plan for two apartment buildings, one on each of the new lots. Each of the two-story buildings would have four apartments.
This would be a cool place to live for railroad fans. You could watch for the two runs a night on the Water Avenue line out your front windows and, the rest of the time, count the passenger trains and freights on the two tracks in back.
As for the actual news Saturday, that was the anti-Trump demonstrations by lots of people in Albany and elsewhere. I wasn’t interested in watching that. I’d rather be on the bike touring the town and seeing how changes take place over time. (hh)
Somebody or something, maybe the wind, knocked down the for-sale sign at 2240 N.E. Water Ave.
what great coverage you provide us! Thank you. And, that last sentence you gave us, (As for the actual news Saturday, that was the anti-Trump demonstrations by lots of people in Albany and elsewhere. I wasn’t interested in watching that. I’d rather be on the bike touring the town and seeing how changes take place over time. (hh) ). TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH!! From a guy who worked for years and years at The Democrat Herald that is really saying something!! LOL
Says the one-time GOP Precinct Committee member.
So political preference is the bottom line for many readers here (I know that is the case for the editors at the DH)? If you are aligned politically with the wrong side, you are evil. That is called totalitarianism.
Why so bitter?
“That is called totalitarianism.” No, it’s called MAGA.
You made the right call, Hasso. And I would be one of those who would live next to those tracks if I could.
Why doesn’t helping hands buy these lots for affordable housing. Where there are no local businesses and would not cause traffic problems. Its common sense to make these smaller units than cramming 70 units in a smaller heavily used business area that would suffer from being way over burdened. Plus they would not be begging for donations to demolish the usable housing that they already have people living in.