State Street Fire

An fire broke out before dawn in one of the buildings on the old Wellington Row block of State Street below Eagle Street. The building is vacant and, like the rest of the row, awaiting redevelopment.

CBS6 has a brief piece on the fire here. Additional details will be posted if they become available.

The building on fire is the one at the left of the Wellington in this photo taken in early 2009:

Albany (NY) Daily Photo Blog - Shells

Discovery behind Wellington Row

After years of controversy and decay, the Wellington Row on State Street has been undergoing massive changes in recent months as the structures are torn down - except for the facades which will be saved and incorporated into new construction on the site.

In the midst of the ongoing demolition and stabilization work, some fascinating colonial-era relics have been uncovered...

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=882769&TextPage=1

This is one story I will definitely be following very closely as so much of Albany's colonial past has been lost under centuries of newer construction.