parks

Here is your chance to keep our parks, trails and public places clean and beautiful for the season. If you want to volunteer, you can sign up now for a special day to help clean up.

Growing up we all went to the neighborhood park. A long time ago, you could just go with your friends and get a pickup game of basketball, swing on the swings, run around or do anything else as a kid at the park because you felt safe.

Domino's wants to provide your picnic spread the next time you are chilling at your favorite local park!

With temperatures soaring into the 90's by Sunday, it seems like Summer may officially be here before the actual "official" date. Personally, I'm so ready for it! After all of the rain and all of the on-again, off-again temperature changes that make the Ross/Rachel relati…

With the warm weather here and kids enjoying Spring Break, outdoors is the place to be!

My friends at Trustco Bank are continuing a great project they have started to renovate local parks. You may remember I wrote about what a great job they did at Quackenbush Park last year. This time around it's Woodlawn Park that gets their attention and at 1 p.m. today they make the …

We are fortunate enough in the Albany, NY area to have a plethora of parks to enjoy. If you need some outdoor time other than the weekends, here are some great parks to spend your lunch break at.

Sometimes you just have to put the laptop down, turn off the iPhone, and get your butts outside and enjoy the weather.  I had to tell myself this recently.  So I immediately packed up my laptop and iPhone and took a solo excursion to a local park.  I was pleasantly surprised at what I…

Ever been there?  It's a great little park.  Little?  Did I say little?  It's actually huuuuuuge!  I happened to have some time to kill the other day, and I certainly found the best place to kill it:  The Crossings.  So with i-Phone in hand, I took some q…

The Statue of Liberty will be closing for year long renovations in October.

The greater Albany area has some impressive landmarks and the diversity of those landmarks is largely driven by the fact that this area was one of the first settled in North America. We polled our staff and many of them responded with the same handful of places over and over again - those of course …