Meet at the Northwest Corner of Madison and Broadway, under the I-787 interchange. Park on Green Street, near the Greyhound station. Co-sponsored by the Albany Firefighters’ Museum.
There is limited space, so you must RSVP to be put on the guest list: info@historic-albany.org, 518-465-0876 ext. 10
Join City Historian Tony Opalka, Lt. Tim Blaney, Albany Fire Department, and Lt. Bill Tobler, AFD (Ret.), on a walk through the “Burnt District” marking the 170th Anniversary of Albany’s Great Fire of 1848.
The fire started at the Albion Hotel at Herkimer and Broadway, stretched north to Hudson and Broadway on land and destroyed nearly 600 buildings, as well as ships docked in the Albany Basin up to Columbia Street; it was finally stopped by a change in the wind and a rain storm.
A reception with a display on AFD history will follow at 48 Hudson.
