Construction of the New York State Capitol, October 8, 1869 (Times Union Archive) It sounds like an urban legend. In the mid-1920s, an eight-story residential building was put on railroad tracks ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — For the first time in 460 days, on Friday, the New York State Capitol building will be open to the public. Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement Thursday, a week after state ...

The staircase on the Eastern Approach, which also includes the promenades on both sides of the Capitol and a portico where the governor enters the building, has ...

lay in state in the New York State Capitol; Grant, in this building, in the State Street lobby, but Abraham Lincoln, of course, before this building was ever built, lay in state in the old state ...

has proposed removing depictions of Native Americans from New York’s State Capitol building in Albany. In her recent “State of the State” report, Hochul vowed to conduct a comprehensive ...

A massive stone carving at the New York State Capitol building has barely changed in 125 years. But as John Campbell of member station WNYC reports, it is about to get a new addition. (SOUNDBITE ...