Kenwood Update

We are thrilled to be able to share the bell from the spire at Kenwood has been located!  Sadly the bronze has melted away from the intense heat from the fire, but the iron yoke and clapper remain.  The City of Albany will keep this artifact in its possession until such time that it can be properly displayed as a memorial to what was lost at the Kenwood Campus.

HAF Board Welcomes Faraz Khan

We are pleased to announce the addition of Farz Khan of Khan Development to the Board of Directors.  Faraz has been a long time supporter of the HAF Parts Warehouse and of HAF.  He and his wife Mehak received a 2022 Preservation Merit Award for the restoration of their home on Thurlow Terrace from an office building back to a single family home, where they reside with their three young children.  Welcome Faraz!

Charles Buchanan, Local Philanthropist, Has Passed Away 

HAF was saddened to hear that long-time supporter, Charles Buchanan has passed away. Charles served on the board of Historic Albany Foundation, and has been highly involved in the community at large for many years. You can read his obituary here and a news article by Paul Grondahl here. 

Mice and no heat: Behind the struggle to hold landlords accountable

"ALBANY — The heater stopped working in Laneka's Albany apartment in November. Despite her complaints, her landlord still hasn’t fixed it. She tried to keep the unit warm through the winter with small space heaters, but her kids kept complaining about the cold..."
 

Historic Albany Foundation will be advocating for more court time and / or an additional judge to help with the codes court backlog and bottle neck. If you would like to add your voice to this very important issue, please feel free to write to:  

Hon. Gerald Connolly
District Administrative Judge
NYS Unified Court System
2500 Pond View
Suite 210
Castleton-on-Hudson, NY 12033

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1st Friday at 48 Hudson
Free 20 minute tours!

Take a wander downtown next Friday April 7th and see inside the oldest building in Albany - and HAFs new (old) home! Our Director of Preservation Services  will be leading the tour and explaining why this building is so unique!

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Seed Swap Success!
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Thank you to the West Hill Refugee Welcome Center for hosting another seed swap and gardening workshop, led by local gardener,  Richard Daley.  It was great to catch up and chat about gardening successes and woes and trade tips and seeds! Tomorrow we are hosting a Locks Workshop, which is sold out. If you would like to join the waitlist to be informed of the next one, click on 'reserve a spot'. 

What's New in the Warehouse

Everyone knows what Zeppelins are from the movie King Kong and the cover of the Led Zeppelin I album, which depicts the 804-foot long Hindenburg aflame and sinking from the sky above Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6th in 1937. Incidentally, it’s from the radio reporting of that tragedy that the phrase, “Oh the humanity!” exclaimed by the dismayed broadcaster Herbert Morrison of Chicago’s WLS radio, entered our popular culture.
First flown by German inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900 and used commercially to transport post and passengers in luxury in the 1920s and ‘30s, Zeppelins are “rigid airships.”
This means that, unlike balloons, they have an internal metal skeleton skinned with a “doped” (painted) fabric to make them taut, slick, and waterproof. They utilize hydrogen rather than atmospheric air to float and control altitude.

Their characteristic elongated cigar shape provides them with the size, durability, stability, and controllability required to loft passengers and the necessary powerplants to push them long distances to predetermined destinations at modern-day highway speeds. During World War I, Zeppelins became the stuff of nightmares as they drifted invisibly through the ink-dark night over England—their presence only known because of the moaning of their engines—dropping bombs on cities and killing more than 500 people.

But, very soon after the war, these majestic giants of the air again found their place in people’s imaginations as objects of wonder and possibility in a time when human flight was still new. And that’s when this toy was made.

With its delightfully illustrated box, this Gluck Build-A-Zep model kit can be used to make either a Zeppelin or an airplane in a variety of configurations. The instruction manual is present as are all the parts, apparently, many still wired into the box.  Weighing in at just under 3 pounds total, this is no tin-thin toy; it’s comprised of heavy-gauge steel and solid wood and assembled using screws. As this is so interesting and rare, we are going to try an informal auction. Over the next week (until 4/4/23) DM or stop by the Warehouse with your bid. Highest reasonable bid wins; buyer pays shipping.

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How to Drill Holes in Tight Spaces

"Drilling holes in tight spaces can be a challenge for any old house DIY-er, but there are solutions. Here’s a look at the right way and the wrong way to drill holes in small spaces."

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Hazardous Waste Recycling Dates Announced
April 6, 2023
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Hazardous waste recycling days announced, 4 to 7 p.m.Rapp Road, Landfill. Register by  phone by calling (518) 434-2489 or click here

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