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Now it’s done: Behold the ‘Opera House’

Written October 18th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

It has taken a while, but now a faded former apartment house on East First Avenue in Albany has been rebuilt as something completely different. Now it’s the Opera House, a building with century-old lines on the outside and modern, well equipped apartments inside the walls.


 
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