Girl Gone Planning: 89 People
The US Census reporte preliminary numbers for their 2020 count on Monday and it reported that New York would be losing a House seat (and...
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Daniel Jeanson
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Pandemic Winners: Places Like Albany?
Albany, NY is a city of 98,000 (pending 2020 Census numbers) sitting along the Hudson River 130 miles north of New York City. It is the...
Daniel Jeanson
- Aug 14, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Be Counted
The following is a repost from Nov 2019. Fill out the Census today to make sure that your community gets the resources it deserves. The...
Daniel Jeanson
- Jul 8, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Once Again Albany Disappoints
Regular readers of this blog will remember a post I wrote back in February imagining what a car-free Lark Street would look like. Then...
Daniel Jeanson
- May 18, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Will COVID kill the city?
While the novel coronavirus keeps most of us holed up at home, sustained by an ever increasing deluge of deliveries of all kinds, some of...
Heather C Fazio
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min
Girl Gone Smart: My breast biopsy experience (language warning)
I wasn't going to write about this because it feels too personal, but a friend reached out after I had checked in to St. Peter's Hospital...
Daniel Jeanson
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: Albany's new high school
Albany residents got a first glimpse at their newly renovated and expanded high school over the weekend, and from the pictures it looks...
Daniel Jeanson
- Feb 13, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Imagining a car-free Lark Street (for a few hours a week)
Think about some of the most magical urban places that you've visited in your life. Maybe it's a lovely town square in Milan, or a...
Daniel Jeanson
- Jan 28, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: Axes Away in Albany
First came the hot yoga studio, then the smoothie place, the brewery, and the dog walking service. Now the latest trend in gentrification...
Heather C Fazio
- Dec 4, 2019
- 3 min
Girl Gone Reading: Local author Nick Pignatelli has what you need
Are you tired of politics yet? Or perhaps you’re tired of the multitude of social media posts by friends who just learned the word...
Daniel Jeanson
- Nov 20, 2019
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Census 2020 or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Accept the Count
If you have been paying attention to the Trump administration, you're probably suffering from spinning head syndrome or whiplash. The...
Daniel Jeanson
- Oct 29, 2019
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Are Millennials Leaving the City for the Suburbs?
Since the end of the Great Recession in 2010, one of the big stories in demographics and urban planning has been the trend of Millennials...
Daniel Jeanson
- Oct 20, 2019
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Lark Street Is A Model For Our Region And Is Getting A Makeover
Lark Street between Washington and Madison Avenues in Albany is a popular mixed-use business district in the middle of an existing...
Daniel Jeanson
- Oct 2, 2019
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: (Insert local transit provider here) SUCKS
Another day, another complaint about nearly any transit system from friends on Facebook who live here in Albany or elsewhere across the...
Heather C Fazio
- Sep 25, 2019
- 1 min
Girl Gone Smart: Impeachment Tuesday
Yes. Yes we can. That is all. #girlgonesmart
Heather C Fazio
- Sep 20, 2019
- 2 min
Girl Gone Local: A night at June Farms
It has been a pretty rough week for a thousand reasons but my husband, who knows me better than all, knew just the solution - June Farms....
Heather C Fazio
- Sep 6, 2019
- 2 min
Girl Gone Eating: A summary of good eats in Albany from this summer
Every once in a while I like to pull together a list of good books I've written about, but this time I'm going to do a list of the places...
Daniel Jeanson
- Jul 26, 2019
- 2 min
Girl Gone Planning: Milestones
Ask nearly anyone what constitutes a milestone and they will probably respond that it is an important event that marks the end of one arc...
Daniel Jeanson
- Jun 24, 2019
- 4 min
Girl Gone Planning: Infrastructure
Of all the topics inside and out of my professional life one that comes up directly or indirectly more than almost any other is...
Heather C Fazio
- Jun 14, 2019
- 2 min
Girl Gone Local: An invitation to The Lincoln Dress, A Ghost Story
Albany Ghost Story to be premiered at Siena College and then traveling to International Festival in Eastern Europe. WHO: Piper Theatre...