Cohoes begins work on determining how to spend $10 million in NYS Downtown Revitalization Initiative funds to improve downtown and attract economic development.
Eat in the Street returns to Cohoes and other restaurant news in Bite-Sized
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The new Food Near Me store at 87 N.Pearl St. in downtown Albany. (Steve Barnes/Times Union)Steve Barnes/Times Union
Cheery bodega debuts on North Pearl Street
Food Near Me, a vibrantly colorful convenience store with homemade food including breakfast and lunch sandwiches, subs, salads, vegetable juices and fruit smoothies, as well as the only supply of household basics available anywhere in downtown Albany proper since a Walgreen’s location closed in February, opened May 3 at 87 N. Pearl St.
The space, between The Hollow Bar + Kitchen and the former Capital Repertory Theatre, replaces a minimalist convenience store that was open only weekdays during the day for about 20 years and vanished suddenly last year.
Table Hopping By Steve Barnes, senior writer on May 5, 2021 at 3:08 PM
Launched last summer to lure to Cohoes’ Remsen Street dining district patrons who may have been hesitant about eating inside a restaurant, the weekly Eat in the Street promotion returns Friday (5/7), starting with more than a dozen restaurants offering expanded outside tables and four others participating with takeout specials.
Hours are 4 to 9:30 p.m. Fridays through October, weather permitting. Check out a
Remsen Street will be closed to vehicle traffic from 3:30 to 10 p.m. Cross streets will remain open to traffic.
“The response to Eat in the Street has been tremendous. The restaurant owners and their customers love it,” Debbie Jacques, executive director of the Cohoes Local Development Corp., who introduced the idea in June 2020, said in s statement. “What started last summer as an effort to help sustain our restaurants has turned into a festive new tradition in Cohoes,” she