Arbor Hill, Albany, New York

Arbor Hill
City of Albany
Neighborhood
Historic housing in the Ten Broeck section of Arbor Hill.
Historic housing in the Ten Broeck section of Arbor Hill.
Etymology: for a nickname of the Ten Broeck Mansion
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountyAlbany County
CityAlbany
Settled17th century
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Arbor Hill is a neighborhood in Albany, New York, generally defined as the area from Clinton Avenue north to Tivoli Hollow and the Livingston Avenue Railroad Bridge and from Broadway west to Henry Johnson Boulevard.[1] Both Clinton Avenue and Henry Johnson Boulevard are signed as U.S. Route 9. It was outside Albany's first boundaries as set up in the Dongan Charter of 1686. The original name of the area was Colonie (which is applied now to the current town to the north), and the area was incorporated under that name as a village in 1804; it was annexed by Albany in 1815.[2] There are two sub-neighborhoods in Arbor Hill, Dudley Heights[3] and the Ten Broeck Triangle.[4] "Arbor Hill" was the name given to the Ten Broeck estate;[5] the Ten Broeck Mansion is still an important cultural and historical museum. The neighborhood has other historical and cultural sights such as the Palace Theatre and St. Joseph's Church. Demographically it is predominantly African-American.

  1. ^ "Arbor Hill Ghetto Plan". City of Albany. Archived from the original on November 18, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gazetteer159 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Dudley Heights Zone Change Opposed". Albany Times Union. January 19, 2001. Retrieved August 15, 2009.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "City seeks a vision to revitalize pump station". Albany Times Union. December 18, 2004. Retrieved August 17, 2009.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Keeney, Irene Gardner (August 3, 1986). "Historic Arbor Hill's Changing Fortunes". Times Union (Albany). Hearst Newspapers. Archived from the original on April 30, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2010.