This department is very unprofessional. The workers are constantly skipping my trash on purpose and…read more1 female employee named "Robin" is always rude to me, when I call to complain about their treatment. She constantly hangs up on me and very condescending concerning my concerns. She needs to be retrained in customer service.

As an Albany homeowner since 1999, I couldn't be more pleased with the services provided by the…read moreAlbany DGS. In many nearby towns garbage service is privately contracted and recycling has to be carted to the center. I only have to lug my garbage and recycling to the curb each week and the City takes care of it for me. I can't say that I like the smell of the dump wafting over to Central Ave on a hot day, but that's not really DGS' fault. Large item pickup has been a breeze. The hazardous waste drop off is really helpful. The newly offered all-in-one-bin recycling has cut down on my sorting time each week too. Even though it's a pain, I try to always bundle my cardboard and yard waste as per the city's instructions, although when I walk my dog on garbage night I see that not many people follow the guidelines. It really irritates me to see that. The folks who are out picking up trash before dawn have to put up with so much crap. The rental properties downtown seem particularly notorious for piling huge mounds of crap on the city's curb (especially at the end of the school year). The City still carts away all of these items. One night I saw someone had large pieces of wood sticking out of their garbage can with nails poking out on all sides. Imagine being a garbage collector in the dark hours of the morning having to deal with those unseen dangerous objects. I really appreciate what the garbage collectors, in particular, face on a regular basis. I'm not a huge fan of two lanes of snow being plowed into the end of my driveway on snowy days in the winter (or the one time right after I'd cleared it, a snow truck went by and I could see the driver laughing at me as plowed a fresh pile of snow in the my drive). That snow pushes over the curbs and onto the sidewalks, making them nearly as impossible to clear as the end of my drive. That being said, Albany is a big city and we get a lot of snow and the plows out there do a fine job of quickly and efficiently clearing the main roadways - especially when compared to some of the surrounding communities. It would be nice if the City could offer plowing/blowing assistance for sidewalks and driveways of the elderly - or coordinate trusted providers for paying homeowners. Right now plowing service prices are all over the map and it's hard to find a steady service from one snow storm to the next.

The Albany Distribution Center is what I MUST and continue to say about this location, something or…read moresomeone is so lacking sense in this particular sector , and this happened MORE THAN 1 TIME, they get my package here which is supposed to be headed to Schenectady and send it to Latham then BACK OUT OF STATE to Massachusetts then back to Albany then to me. Straight stupid and non acceptable. Poor service and continually the SAME MISTAKES. No one is paying attention

Great service with both the weekday worker and the weekend worker. Friendly, personable, kind.read more

This is a pretty nice dog park. It is located with a whole park complex that includes several paved…read morewalking trails, a pool area, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, and fields. We have only explored the dog park area, which consists of two fenced in areas (one for "large" dogs, the other for "small" dogs) to run around in. A gazebo which provides some shelter from the sun is located in between both of the areas, and the fence runs through it. Like all dog parks, as the season wears on the grass slowly gets worn away and the gazebo gets dirtier. The cleanliness of the grass itself is entirely on the responsibility of the dog owners to pick up after their pets. I haven't had too much trouble here in that regard. Water is available for the dogs to drink, but bring a bowl (though some are usually here).

Colonie sometimes gets a bad rap…read more Perhaps because the most obvious symbol of the town is Wolf Road where it seems like all the national chain restaurants open shop to the detriment of our regional culture. Traffic gets snarled up on this arterial too, which makes it a place that some people avoid like the plague. But some of my favorite things in the region are in Colonie. Yes, there's Trader Joe's, which I am still ever thankful decided to open up an outpost in Albany. But Parivar on Central Avenue with its back-of-store kitchen is an amazing place to get delicious Indian street-food served without pretense while catching up on a bit of Bollywood and picking up some dried lentils and spice blends for home cooking projects. And it's not just the exotic ethnic places in Colonie either. Because this town is the home of Ralph's Tavern which has been feeding families wings, pizza, and mozzarella with melba for generations. In the summer there is Scoups ice cream, which is just about adjacent to The Crossings. The latter is probably the single best outdoor playground for young kids in the area, even though I wish it had more shade. And during the growing season, The Crossings plays host to a farmers market. For a suburb of Albany, this town has a lot going on.

The service I got at 45 Hudson Ave., Albany, NY was excellent I have many packages to mail the…read moreclerk her name was Gina was very helpful and she always seems to have a smile on her face when I come in there. She is a people person. It is a pleasure to do business there.

I have a mail box at this location, on Tuesday 11th of February, 2020. I had a package delivered. I…read morecame to this post office to retrieve it and there is a lady who tried to find my package and it had the wrong code which they placed in my mail box. She gave me soo much trouble that day and had me in a pissed mode. I left and came back everyday until Friday Valentines day trying to retrieve my packages and mail. I had a catering Event which I couldn't even attend because this lady refused to search for my packages when I tried giving her my tracking numbers. Each day the same rude lady said she dont deal with my kind, don't even come up here, I am not helping you. I asked to speak to a supervisor she refused me. If I have to use a platform on social media I will. It is a crime to withhold my packages and mail from any individual who pays for a PO Box. If I don't get me mail upon next visit to my mail box Legal ramifications will occur.

Not a bad facility. There's no car parking or secure indoor bike parking. It's about a block away…read morefrom a major CDTA bus stop, and close to a few restaurants. Bathrooms are located on every level towards the front of the building, but all of the water fountains have been turned off due to COVID-19. Building security is provided by Albany County Sheriff's Office, and requiring passing through a metal detector, and having everything x-rayed. Overall, a well lit, spacious building. Hoping to never be back here.

All of the officers that work here is awesome and amazing people that I ever met and chief Cox is…read morethe best boss ever I look forward to help you out with the everything

Probably the WORST physical structure in the Albany police department. It's gotten more makeovers…read moreand facelifts than Phyllis Diller. It did get a revamp of the holding cells a few years ago but it seems that the old style of policing is fading for a new touchy feel approach. Seems odd that with stricter gun laws there's more crime. Remember the late 1980's?? As Paul Butterfield sang, "better days". Not the cops fault as the mayor really controls the force. Sorry, as Dave Aloisi would say "but I digress". Forgive any misspelling Dave. When Donald Trump said SHITHOLE he was speaking of the old Division Two building. Even the rats don't like it. Many fine officers, present and past. Some gone before their time. To many of the personnel; police, civilian and repeat offenders, South Station is home.

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and any times politicians needed money, they cut funding to libraries…read morebecause who needs to read, right? When I moved up to Clifton Park in 2018, I discovered this beautiful library and fell in love with it. Wonderful people, great events, very community minded. Thid library is, in a long life of reading, my favorite.

If not the Granddaddy of area libraries, this is at least the All-Star, with capacious reading…read moreareas, triple height ceilings opening up to views of the adjacent woods, and the best children's room in the Tri-State area. The collection actually isn't bigger than Schenectady's main branch, but the modern layout and extra air make it an extremely pleasant alternative. The main "criticism" (please note the quotation marks) is that by choosing a central location -- as in, smack dab in the geographic middle of the county -- it's not quick to get there. It is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, adjacent to a few older houses and not in a civic center. This makes accessing it by foot impossible, and by public transportation a chimerical experience. It's a heavily suburbanized concept, and one done at the expense of having several satellite libraries in many communities. That said, the flipside is that the library is able to keep extremely good hours relative to the financially-strapped libraries in most of the state. 9-9 weekdays, except 9-6 Friday; 9-5 Saturday; noon to 5 Sunday. They have a double-staffed reference desk and as many as four lines open at circulation, although no self-serve checkout as yet. Borrowing privileges are extended to other libraries in SALS, and cards are issued with some restrictions to most residents of the whole regions. They do honor Schenectady County cards as well. Any book borrowed from SALS or the Mohawk Valley Library System can be returned here as well, or books from this library can be returned to another member library. There are some byzantine requirements for some borrowing so it's best to ask a staffer and bring your local library card if you're coming from out of the County. For a few hours', or at least several intense minutes', entertainment, stop and try to find the opening lines of books on the sculpture just outside the entrance, and see if you can conjure up which titles they belong to. Very classy and the library uses it as its logo/icon, deservedly so. Don't neglect looking at the Free Book carousel near the exit, it rotates from books they get as donations that they can't sell, and it often has perfectly decent titles. Free open Wifi, with the usual caveats, but it seems fairly safe. My ideal library is in walking distance and has a lot of other amenities and businesses nearby and more outdoor space and maybe a little café adjacent, and has those spacious ceilings but is an old-school building, but you can't have everything, unless you live in Berkeley. If you take it against suburban libraries, hard to find better. And worth a special trip if you're a library devotee.

Been to 2 locations on upper union st. Have visited each eatery multiple times and will continue to…read moredo so into the future. Homestyle caterers has amazing pizza (top 5 all time in my book), delicious rollatini, salads and other items.... they have gelato too!! Gershans delicatessen is also amazing. Beautiful sandwiches, meats, pickles and salads. Both places are extremely clean and have very friendly owners and employees. Bot are family owned also!