The streets of Albany lend patterns that lead a pedestrian on the path of alluring variations, sloping hills, significant width and distinctive side streets.
Albany is a city that is admired for its historical progression as well as its topography.
The streets add a great deal of charm and individuality to this already unique city.
The Downtown section consists of various streets of sizeable width such as State Street, N. Pearl and Broadway as well as contrasting narrower side streets that enhance its individuality.
The layout of the streets and variations add a visual interest for the pedestrian.
In fact one of the most interesting elements to the structure of the downtown streets is that every major street is said to end in a prominent building or a view of a building along a curved street.
The diversity in the patterns of the streets adds not only visual appeal for the pedestrian but creates a valley of swirling streets that one can not help wanting to explore to their hearts content.
(Albany-Comprehensive Plan for Downtown part2,Candeub, Fleissig and Associates,1962 )