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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Seen on a lamppost in Albany: "John Brown would've shot ICE agents."

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Dottie on the left, Ella on the right. Young and totally bonkers.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Don't let cats run your healthcare.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I found this sales brochure for a demolition company in the Gloversville (NY) Urban Renewal Agency records.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Postwar urban planning in a nutshell--let's demolish buildings for urban renewal for the sole purpose of saving drivers a few seconds. Gloversville, NY.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dammit. I read that as Chris Cornell.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Albany--probably a couple hundred people in attendance. Cold and icy day, too.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

There's precedent here. This courtroom sketch hanging in Albany's city hall, "Kona Gets Life For Eating All Our Snackums":

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Drawing outside the courtroom in Albany's city hall. Kona gets life for eating all our snackums.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

And my personal favorite: Gov. Nelson Rockefeller giving away bricks from the first Albany demolition, 1962. This demolition did not go well: 98acresinalbany.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/t...

Gov. Rockefeller proudly displays bricks from the first spot demolition in the South Mall project area, July 1962.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Nyack, ca. 1963: "First structure to be demolished under Urban Renewal. The children are from an enrichment class, learning about urban renewal."

first structure to be demolished under Urban Renewal. On left, Albert Holland." The other adults are Frank O'Loughlin (UR director), Humes M. Flynn (real estate consultant) and Thomas Glynn (federal disposition agent). The children - Alicia Curry, Connie Sauer, Patty Sedlack, Sandy Soutar, Joseph Cordillo, Kenneth Bookman, Blythe Anderson, David Dalto, Duen Yen, Janice Hutta, Helen Mitard, and Patricia Mian - are from an enrichment class, learning about urban renewal

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Kingston, mayor, city council, and Urban Renewal Agency, ca. 1965: considerthesourceny.org/document/kin...

Photograph of first demolition site featuring the mayor and other dignitaries in Kingston, NY.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

1957, Rochester's Baden-Ormond project: "Adults and children watch as a power shovel is poised to begin demolition in the Baden Street neighborhood in Rochester's northeast side." nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Adults and children watch as a power shovel is poised to begin demolition in the Baden Street neighborhood in Rochester's northeast side. The project was part of a multi-million dollar city redevelopment plan designed to convert overcrowded slum areas into new low-rent housing projects. Adults watching are, from left, Joseph Neal, Edward Perdue, Honora Miller, Irving Kriegsfield, Nellie Cieslik, Rose Altman and James Benvenuto.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

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