The new mayor is looking for a new City Hall. We once had a real City Hall.Currently, we are outshined by the one in Schenectady, built in 1931 in the late Georgian Revival style, by McKim, Mead, and White who made the style popular in the late 19th century. Albany’s grand Romanesque-style City Hall, designed […]
Sadie G. Koninsky was an American composer, music publisher, and music teacher who lived most of her life in Troy. A prolific composer, she authored over 300 pieces of music including waltzes and marches. “Eli Green’s Cakewalk,” which became a popular hit when it appeared in 1898, was also the first cakewalk published by a […]