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27 Summit Ave
Albany, NY 12209
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About Our NeighborhoodOur neighborhood is friendly, vibrant, affordable and diverse. It's a convenient neighborhood where many everyday needs such as shopping, banking, and entertainment are within easy walking distance. We have a wide selection of activities along Delaware Avenue, including a movie theater, bookstore, retail stores, restaurants, churches, a post office, a bank, pharmacies, a beautiful and historic firehouse and numerous other small businesses. Once
settled as farmland, Delaware Avenue began to
build up more than 100 years ago around the turn
of the 20th Century, when farmers began selling
off parts of their land to individual builders,
many of whom built homes for themselves before
building for others.The Delaware Avenue neighborhood of Albany, southwest of the Empire State Plaza, is a melting pot of many nationalities: Italian, Jewish, Greek, Irish and Chinese, among others. It`s the kind of place, say residents, where you can walk to almost anything - to the cleaners, the hairdresser and grocery store, or to restaurants and movies.  Residents
include college students, families and retirees.
It`s a neighborhood that has stayed the same for
many years, except for a few businesses coming
and going.This patchwork of streets is intersected by Delaware Avenue, which is similar to a traditional Main Street neighborhood strip, and by Whitehall Road, which turns into Second Avenue east of Delaware Avenue.  Delaware
Avenue features the bulk of the retail
and professional operations. Whitehall Road and
Second Avenue feature several professional
offices, a school and restaurants.The City Square Plaza shopping center on Delaware Avenue is where the Albany Hyatt Billiard Ball Co. used to be. It was here that the plastic celluloid was first invented for billiard balls. Parts of the neighborhood are zoned as C-1 neighborhood commercial, and others are R-2 for one- and two-family residential. Homes are either single- or two-family, with a few apartment buildings. Most are well-kept two-story homes constructed of brick, stone, shingle, clapboard and aluminum siding; many have a small lawn in front.
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