central ave

In July of 2022, TJ's Cafe closed after a twenty-five-year run. It was a well-known restaurant in its A-frame building on Central Avenue in Colonie. What replaced it?

Since 1977, Grandma's Pies and Restaurant served thousands of pies, especially around the holidays. In August 2020 the legendary restaurant closed for good. Now the building will be torn down and gone forever. What will be built in its place?

A tattoo on her arm is their only clue

Traffic backups, power outages, property damage.

Another supermarket is moving into the Capital Region. This time it's a specialty grocery store. The Farmers India Market will be coming to the Kohl's Plaza off of Central Ave in Colonie and take over the vacant building that housed Office Depot.

Shoutout to Albany's finest here doing the kind of work that people don't often see police officers do. Rain from the Tuesday afternoon storm was so heavy, it caused massive flooding along Central Avenue in Albany, stranding multiple cars...

Last year, a fire at Wendy's on Central Ave. caused the location to close and did some serious damage to the building.

I pass the Wendy's on Central Avenue every day on my way to and from work. It was the Wendy's that burnt down back in February and nothing had been done to it after the fire. Now that Wendy's is finally coming down.

Route 5 from Albany, through Colonie to Schenectady, where it becomes State Street, is one of the Capital Region's most dangerous roads for pedestrians. And now, that stretch of road will get brighter with more energy-efficient lighting as part of a research project...

I've been driving by it for a few weeks now patiently waiting for it to open!  And now the brand new Aldi store opened Thursday morning on Central Avenue. I usually go to the Aldi in Clifton Park, which is great, but this one is so close to my work, so I'm super excited for personal reasons...