Down in the 'Burgh

The decrepit, abandoned Friehofer bakery facility down the hill from the Terrace in Lansingburgh, is nearly gone.

After years of wrangling among developers, real estate agents, landowners, city officials and preservationists, the brick eyesore and the adjacent yacht club building are being torn down and the debris carted off.

The choice piece of land, right on the Hudson River next to the Union Bridge between Troy and Waterford, is one of those rare opportunities. The problem at the moment is that we don't know what is going to be done with it. One hopes it won't be another cookie-cutter drug store as had been talked about a year or so ago.

Photos by April Dowd.