Old Post Office

The old post office building is located on the east side of the three-way intersection of Broadway and State Street. An open, grassy plaza is located to the south; otherwise the surrounding neighborhood is densely developed with commercial buildings of a comparable or greater size, many date to the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries and are, like the post office, contributing properties to the Downtown Albany Historic District, some of its neighbors are also listed on the Register themselves, to the south a driveway curves around the plaza, around the front of the SUNY System Administration Building, listed on the Register as the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company Building.