Darryl McGrath

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Darryl McGrath

Rehabbing the Neighborhood

by Darryl McGrath January 26, 2012

The first thing you notice inside 95 Trinity Place is the light. An abundance of natural light flooding into a late-18th-century factory building is a suprise, considering that the first people who worked here had been ...

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Food-Scrap Revolution

by Darryl McGrath November 10, 2011

“I have to warn you, it’s going to be smelly.” Scott Kellogg offers this caveat as he prepares to set out on his weekly pickup of food scraps from a couple dozen homes in downtown Albany, ...

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School’s In

by Darryl McGrath October 27, 2011

Education funding has been shredded in the past two fiscal years, thousands of teachers in New York have lost their jobs in the last 18 months, and school budgets are barely squeezing in under the ...

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Planning for a Resurrection

by Darryl McGrath August 4, 2011

Look around any of downtown Albany’s neighborhoods, and you will find the stories of the city’s immigrants, told by the churches left behind as second and third generations grew up and departed. And so it is ...

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Rack ’em Up

by Darryl McGrath July 14, 2011

Finally, in a city where the best option for locking your bicycle has long been the nearest wrought-iron fence, bike racks are popping up everywhere. The selection alone is noteworthy, as racks can be seen on ...

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The Architecture of Health Care

by Darryl McGrath June 16, 2011

Urban community-based health-care clinics are often crammed into ill-suited, makeshift quarters in old buildings, with the clinic barely fitting into the space instead of the space fitting the clinic’s needs. So imagine a clinic facing the ...

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The Hole Story

by Darryl McGrath June 8, 2011

Yes, we know it’s almost strawberry season, and temperatures are in the 90s, but that really was a pothole you just drove over—and a big one at that. Wheel-jarring reminders of last winter abound throughout the ...

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My Best Summer Ever

by Darryl McGrath June 2, 2011

My Best Summer Ever Metroland writers reach back into the grab-bag of memories and recount their seasons of a lifetime Letters From a Soldier In the spring of 1968, my older sister met a young man at ...

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The Missing Link

by Darryl McGrath April 13, 2011

The Land of Painted Caves By Jean Auel Crown, 768 pages, $30 Before there was Harry Potter, long before there was Twilight, there was the story of an orphaned little girl who lived in a fantastic, ...

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