Azra Haqqie

Nov 18, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Azra Haqqie

100 years agoWhen Flora Le Breton, star of "Lass O' Laughter," currently playing at Albany's Capitol Theatre, visited Mayor William S. Hackett in his office, flanked by photographers, she was introduced as the "champion ballroom dancer of the world." It was a title she earned the year before at Queen's Hall in London against dancers from across the world. One of Hackett's cabinet members suggested the mayor learn a few dance steps from Le Breton, but he demurred, saying, "No, I don't think so.

Nov 17, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Azra Haqqie

When Syrian refugees started to arrive in Albany in 2016, someone called Ilham Almahamid and said the father in the family was having heart problems. She got to their apartment and realized that not only did he need medical help, but that the family needed help with plumbing in the apartment and other matters. She started a Facebook page and reached out to the community. "Help poured in," She said. "We got furniture, a sewing machine, clothing.

Nov 17, 2024 | timesunion.com | Azra Haqqie

When Syrian refugees started to arrive in Albany in 2016, someone called Ilham Almahamid and said the father in the family was having heart problems. She got to their apartment and realized that not only did he need medical help, but that the family needed help with plumbing in the apartment and other matters.  She started a Facebook page and reached out to the community. “Help poured in,” She said. “We got furniture, a sewing machine, clothing.

Nov 16, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Azra Haqqie

100 years agoThe rash of recent clothing- and fabric-based crimes in the Capital Region continued in Schenectady, but an attempted robbery was thwarted by a stalled automobile. More than $1,000 worth of woolens were loaded into a car parked in the rear of Israel Goldberg's tailor shop on Nott Terrace. When the vehicle refused to start, the thief or thieves ran off, abandoning the car and the loot.

Nov 14, 2024 | timesunion.com | Azra Haqqie

100 years agoWith cold weather forecasting the end of Albany’s street improvement season for 1924, city engineer Charles E. Brennan estimated that for the year, $1 million (almost $18.5 million in 2024) was spent on new streets and improving old ones. The Madison Avenue overhaul, the largest project in recent memory, was nearing completion at Manning Boulevard, with plans already in place for a similar renovation of Western Avenue in 1925, and a plan for another $1 million or more that year.