As expected, it didn’t take long for vandals to start undoing the volunteer work of Albany’s “graffiti chasers” on the Periwinkle Bikepath behind Lowe’s, near Ninth Avenue.
It’s disgusting, but take a look anyway
Written March 6th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Let’s take a quick little tour of what might qualify as ground zero of Albany vandalism. Not many people go there, which is probably why it often looks the way it did on Thursday afternoon.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: fence damage, graffiti, law enforcement, Periwinkle Path, police patrols, racist markings, vandalism, vulgarity
Tags: fence damage, graffiti, law enforcement, Periwinkle Path, police patrols, racist markings, vandalism, vulgarity
Look at the Albany Skatepark now: Wow!
Written June 9th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
If you haven’t already seen it this weekend, go by the Albany Skatepark. You’ll be astonished at the way it looks: Cleaned up and devoid of several years’ accumulation of graffiti.
Scenes from the Clark and Periwinkle trails
Written December 9th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Conditions on Albany’s trails range from nice and picked up to messy, as my bike rides along the Dave Clark Path and the Periwinkle Bikepath showed this past week.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Dave Clark Riverfront Path, encampments, graffiti, homeless, Periwinkle Bikepath, trash
Tags: Dave Clark Riverfront Path, encampments, graffiti, homeless, Periwinkle Bikepath, trash
Seen from the path: A few questions
Written August 13th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
On Sunday night I was surprised to see an elaborate inscription on the Albany railroad bridge. The center pier had acquired a word of some kind, a vertical string of graffiti that poses a number of questions.
Could anything at all prevent graffiti?
Written June 30th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Painting a whimsical mural on a wall in Albany evidently does not protect it from the spray paint brigade, those knuckleheads who leave their ugly scrawls wherever they can.
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Tags: Albany Skatepark, graffiti, murals, Periwinkle Bikepath, video monitoring
Tags: Albany Skatepark, graffiti, murals, Periwinkle Bikepath, video monitoring
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Before and after at Albany’s Tag Central
A Facebook post by the Albany Parks Department sent me to the Periwinkle Bikepath Friday to see what volunteers had done to clean up recent work by taggers on what might be the city’s most notorious graffiti wall.
Tags: Adopt a Park, Albany parks, graffiti, Lowe's, Periwinkle Bikepath, tagging, volunteers