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From: Pam Perryman <>
Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] West End and Clinton St.
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 12:38:46 -0800
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There's an excellent web page about the street name changes in Albany:

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/streets.html

with a link to another page that lists, in columns, old and "new" names.
Now if someone would just do that for Watervliet . . . I still
haven't found anyone who knows what the correspondence is between the
pre 1900 street names and the numbered streets south of the Arsenal.

Pam Perryman
Eugene, Oregon


On Nov 9, 2006, at 12:02 PM, ronnie lorentz wrote:

> I'm still trying to find out where Canal Street and/or Dove Street
> were and
> also, TenBrock Street - then how do I go about finding land records
> for
> properties on these streets - I live in MD so any help is greatly
> appreciated. Ronnie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] West End and Clinton St.
>
>
>> CLINTON AVE IS IN THE WEST END OF ALBANY
>> CLINTON STREET IS IN THE SOUTH END
>>
>> DONT CONFUSE THEM
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> To:
>> Sent: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:39 PM
>> Subject: [NYALBANY] West End and Clinton St.
>>
>>
>> The language about extending Clinton St. from the deed index is as
>> follows;
>>
>> "James G. Fitzgerald, grantor, to City of Albany, grantee, 1872. Sept
>> 17, 70 feet of land extending from N. side Washington ave. to old
>> city line, for a public street to be known as Colvin ave.; also 80
>> feet, extednding W. of Allen st. and N. of Washington ave., for
>> street to be known as Clinton ave."
>>
>> From your comments, sounds like this street is no longer called
>> Clinton out there. In the 1861 deeds, present day Clinton Ave. is
>> referred to as Patroon St., By 1868 the deeds are referencing Clinton
>> Ave., so the existing street changed its name in the 1860s. What was
>> ore confusing was a deed for a property at the corner of Clinton and
>> Morton. I couldn't find it until I realized that there was a Clinton
>> STREET as well as Avenue, and that Clinton St. did indeed intersect
>> Morton St.
>>
>> The street name changes are confusing. I'm still trying to figure out
>> how the old street names in Watervliet correlate with the modern
>> street names. Looks like that town stripped itself of all character
>> and renamed everything numbered streets and avenues, but until I can
>> get the old names sorted out, I can't tell where the land sales were.
>> Any suggestions as to who would know about the old street names?
>>
>> Pam Perryman
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