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The southwestern block of North Pearl and Columbia streets with the Kenmore Hotel in the 1910s. In the 1940s the Rain-Bo Room was a famous nightclub in the hotel; [ 5 ] it was named for the Rainbow Room in the GE Building of Rockefeller Center in the city of New York . [ 6 ]
While the South End is generally taken to refer to a large area of Albany, including almost everything south of downtown and Lincoln Park to the city's southern limit, [4] the district covers a smaller 57-acre (23 ha) [2]: 110 area that mostly resembles a slightly bent rectangle, mirroring a bend that once existed in the Hudson River shoreline and marked the city's original southern boundary.
The Downtown Albany Historic District is a 19-block, 66.6-acre (27.0 ha) area of Albany, New York, United States, centered on the junction of State (New York State Route 5) and North and South Pearl streets (New York State Route 32). It is the oldest settled area of the city, originally planned and settled in the 17th century, and the nucleus ...
Harry Cipriani Bar, 781 Fifth Avenue. [19] 55 Wall Street (the family owns the building which now consists of a club, [20] residence [21] and restaurant, [22]). Cipriani 42nd Street at 110 East 42nd Street. [23] Cipriano Dolci in Grand Central Terminal. [24] Rainbow Grill atop 30 Rockefeller Center (closed June 2009)
Eagle Hill [9] is a residential neighborhood in western Albany near the Town of Guilderland that is named for the Eagle Hill Cemetery. Eagle Hill is a large neighborhood "bounded by the [W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus] to the north, parts of Krumkill Road and the State Thruway (Interstate 87) to the south, an assortment of streets to the west (including Arch Avenue, North ...
The Miss Albany served its last meal as a diner on February 10, 2012. [17] [18] In 2015, the diner re-opened under new owner David Zheng as Tanpopo Ramen and Sake Bar, with new booths, seating about 45 for lunch and dinner daily. [19] Half of the counter remained at the original height, and half was raised to bar height with bar chairs. [19]
"Madison below South Pearl, as late as 1941," William Kennedy wrote in O Albany!, "could be taken for a street in Italy" due to the many Italian names on businesses along that street. [6] One of those, Lombardo's, has remained on Madison since 1933 and become one of the Capital District 's best-regarded Italian restaurants .
The district centers along the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) stretch of Clinton between Broadway and North Quail. This stretch of the road rises from the flatlands next to the Hudson River to the plains of the city's western neighborhoods, first steeply up the side of the bluff known as Sheridan Hollow, then more gently to the Quail intersection, a total climb of 190 feet (58 m).