Destiny Greene is the second teenage girl to be gunned down on an Albany street this month.
Back on May 3, Chyna Fornay was shot and killed on Essex Street.
Even though these two shootings were unconnected, the two young women did have something in common.
They were both members of the same church in Albany s South End.
Because Destiny and Chyna were both members of the Elijah Missionary Baptist Church, the same clergyman is officiating at both of their funerals.
In fact, Bishop Avery Comithier has already planned or officiated at the funerals for three young murder victims this month.
Local apartment designs for net-zero energy consumption win awards
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A drawing of what a new five-story multifamily building built by Rosenblum Development would look like at the Great Oaks Office Park.Provided
Apartment buildings constructed with net-zero energy use in Albany and Rotterdam are winners in the latest round of a competition sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Net zero, a measure of sustainability, means all the power necessary for a building is generated on-site and wastewater is handled on-site.
One local winner is Building C, a 77,609-square-foot, seven-floor mixed-use structure with 69 residential units at 76 Second Ave. in Albany s South End, proposed by South End Development and Garrison Architects. It is part of a four-building plan for the block called The Seventy-Six that would be built on 32 separate parcels along a sloping piece of land between Leonard and Krank streets. It would be built around