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Albany Med took out an entire neighborhood twice.

The College of Saint Rose closed its doors in June after nearly a century.

I accidentally became friends with Arastus Corning when I was living in Albany in college. I lived in a building that had a news stand in the bottom floor and we saw each other each morning because we were both there at the same time. My foster brother, who I still consider my brother, was on the front page of the newspaper and he asked if he was my brother because we look a lot alike. He and his friend had gotten lost in a cave for two days and that’s why he was in the newspaper. From there we became friends which caught my neighbors attention. Thing was that I had no clue that he was the mayor lol

People don't want to live in Albany for fear of there lives, shooting,murders used to happen on the weekends now its everyday, clean up the CRIME First, face the goddamn facts!

Sanctuary dump !show the reality 🤡

Ah my home. The Wyoming Valley. Home of the Office and the actual birthplace of modern television. Best pretzels in the world.

Wow, man--very good job

Urban rejuvenation of Rust belt !! This should be a case study for every urban planner, designer & travel explorer

The first iron rail was forged in 1844 in Mount Savage ,Md.

I lived there for three months last year and happened to come across this video. It brings back a lot of memories.

One more thing; society gradually stopped punishing crime in the 60's and closed insane asylums around the same time. Narcotics, politicians and crusaders are finishing off cities at a pretty good clip.

I live near Baltimore, and I left briefly to live in the Midwest. KC at the time had parking lots that melted in summer heat and polar periods in winter- both in Indianapolis and KC. Baltimore can get hot and sticky and unpleasantly cold, but nothing like the Midwest.

Great in theory. Another financial boondoggle.

My town

The water is toxic anyways, who cares

College of St. Rose is gone, roll up the sidewalks before you leave

Too bad we only pass this city on 90 every time I come out to Rochester/Buffalo

Didn’t expect a lot from this video but I was surprised. It’s good to learn about upstate from someone who lives in the state’s center of civilization.

We'll always have water, education, geographic proximity and history on our side!

First Federal Plaza is awesome! I really REALLY wish they’d rotate that thing again. It’s just too cool. This city to this day does so much that you wouldn’t really think about. We make parts for Boeing and ship them to Washington. We make X-Ray machines that are sent all over the world. Super cool stuff comes out of this city.

Milk and Feinstein endorsed Jones too.

I read that Troy has very high crime rates. I am looking to move upstate and I think it is nice. Does anyone know if it actually does have concerning safety issues?

I'm from Syracuse

What a useful video, this should be shown in schools.

Shit hole, glad i left

Milk would weep today.

It was old and shity when I lived near there and it looks so old yuk.

The National pike changes name to Cumberland road in western Maryland oldest us interstate

Troy has certainly seen better days,back in my era 60-90’s it was a good time to live in Troy. I still have fond memories of my life in the City back then…Sadly that was then and this is now,certainly a lot has changed over the years.Sadly many of those changes are unrecognizable..but I still have my memories!!

Too bad you didn’t talk about the huge art scene of WillyB migrants

Great video and it echoed my sentiments exactly. The midwest is underrated but on the rise. We are considering relocating from our smallish city in 5 years or less to a larger city in the Midwest where there are things to do, 4 seasons, and great architecture.

Was a great city before they sent all the new york city welfare trash there in the 70's.

I moved to Schenectady in 1989. I moved out the day after I retired in 2014. I don't miss it and I'll NEVER go back.

I don’t want people to move to our great lake region. I would rather avoid damage to our lakes.

Lost me once you said Syracuse NY is a cool place... I don't know of anyone who lives here that would say that. Does not compute

You guys were eating sticky rice and chicken all wrong Lol btw great video! Love my city!

here's an update related to the Valleycats baseball team: they are in the Frontier League (independant baseball) since 2021.

It's centrally located for a reason, its the rectum of California.

Inner city is a dump, everywhere usa

Grew up in Endicott and went to college at Saint Bonaventure!

First, "Rust Belt" is an exceedingly offensive term! I wish "journalists", elites and the ignorant would stop using that term. The "Great Lakes Region" or "Upper Midwest" would be much better. Other than generally crummy weather compared to the rest of the US, it's a great region. "Midwest Nice" rules. The stunning number of freshwaters; lakes (huge and small), major rivers and streams everywhere is the region's hallmark. Like mountains are in the West or Appalachia, deserts/sunshine in the Southwest, or East and West coastal waters. Cheap, nice, many wide-open spaces.

Detroit reached 1.8 million in the 1950s not 1.5 million

Sooooo…. It’s a total of 32 miles back and forth? Roughly ?

I love. Baltimore

Ps…. The pandemic had nothing to do with Troy “struggling”… high taxes, poorly run government, lawlessness, breakdown of family, drugs, gangs, violence, loss of any type of stable non governmental industry, lack education, lack of hope and despair destroying ALL of once thriving midsized US cities…. Pathetic… Troy NY could be one of the nicest most vibrant places on earth… but it’s not

The suburbs are safer and better schools

Very good job ❤❤❤

I was born in Troy in the 1950s. It was a great place to live. My morning paper route took me through the RPI campus; I'd deliver The Times Record to a lot of the fraternity houses. This was before global warming. In winter, I'd cover a couple of miles at 6 in the morning in below freezing temperatures. Brrrrr.

one of the early maps shown in this video... I could easily pick out my hometown based on the railroad lines running through the area. Small down in Indiana.

As an 'old man' who's lived in the Milwaukee Wisconsin area since 1949, what doomed Milwaukee are the following: most of its large factories were built in the 1880 to early 1900's, before electricity was readily available. Those plants were in dire need of some very extensive renovation to be functional and energy efficient. Labor unions, unwilling to negotiate in good faith, drove companies to places like South Carolina and 'the sun belt'. High corporate taxes in 'rust belt states' were another problem. A lot of push back was developing because of the decades of bad air pollution, the dumping a toxic waste into the earth as well as the fresh water sources the plants needed as 'process water' to manufacture their products.The death blow came with the early 1970's with the OPEC oil embargo. The cost of energy for those old, decaying, rotting, 'turn of the century' plants drove operating costs up exponentially. Labor unions were also vehemently opposed to "automation". Manufacturing in the early 1970's was done very much like it had been for literally 'generations'. Everything was slow, manual labor. Quality control was almost unheard of. Automation meant things became less labor-intensive so unions would lose members (meaning a lot of money). The drive to "the sunbelt" where there were tax incentives, the ability to build energy efficient plants for much less than the cost of refurbishing old 'turn of the century plants' was attractive. Corporations could hire non-union labor, equip their plant with the latest automation which made each part precise and it increased the production output. Manufacturers from Milwaukee to Rochester NY simply "walked away", telling the state to do with the land and its decrepit, decaying plants "whatever you wish". As manufacturing fled, all their suppliers, tool makers, etc. simply went out of business. No workers opted to move to the Southeast. Labor unions collapsed. Tax bases were decimated. Baby boomer college graduated flocked to other parts of the country to seek employment. Crime in the rust belt cities has always been a problem. It remains 'worse than ever' today in the post George Floyd era, even though old buildings and old warehouses are being repurposed into loft condo's and old manufacturing areas are being gentrified and repurposed for more 'urban living'. While engineering and service departments still exist within companies that remained in the rust belt, labor-intensive manufacturing has moved to Mexico because of Clinton's NAFTA agreements. Thanks to Obama's "Trans Pacific Partnership", more complex manufacturing requiring a lot of automation moved to China. Given the internet (or you could simply say 'modern communications technology) suppliers are available from anywhere in the world to ship raw material, piece parts, etc. to manufacturers anywhere in the world. The US has become a financial and service industry hub. It you're a finance guy, engineer, IT guy you're okay. America is no longer the manufacturing giant it was post WWII.