[Albany NY]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Thank you HossC for the construction shot. I had mistakenly thought the main Chapman Park Hotel building also had frontage on W 6th street:

uscdl

The postcard view finesses it with a fade-out:



One can the see a corner of the elusive W 6th Street building here:

uscdl (detail)

Thanks for ID-ing it as the "Fugitive" building.



I gotta admit I was more than a little suspicious that it was all PR.

HossC's construction photo answered my question :-)

Hold on there, boys and girls. Let's go back for a moment to the construction shot. The view of The Chapman, pre-construction shows a much different building than the during-construction view. I am a few days behind, so forgive me if this has been covered already.

The Chapman, as we knew and loved her:


So what the heck is this building? Roughly the same shape, but much shorter and narrower in all dimensions from The Chapman. Definitely not a cut-down Chapman. Any ideas?