50 Things I Love about Albany

Fifty Things   I ♥about Albany

1.       Evicting the homeless encampment from the Bulb

2.       Removing the “art work” from the Bulb

3.       No low income housing

4.       No homeless friendly services or policies

5.       No parking meters

6.       The Albany Patch

7.       Albany Schools

8.       Albany Bowl (better than Berkeley Bowl!)

9.       Albany’s clean, family oriented parks

10.   Our friends on Albany Hill

11.   Albany Hill

12.   Albany  Aquatic Center

13.   Oceanview basketball courts

14.   Albany Little League

15.   Albany Village

16.   Plans to pave over/develop the Gill Tract

17.   Whole Foods not whole food

18.   Target

19.   No Telegraph Ave.

20.   No gutter punks

21.   No graffiti

22.   Not 420 Friendly

23.   No “dispensaries”

24.   Not diverse

25.   Solano Stroll (Albany section only)

26.   Real artists in residence, not street “artists”

27.   Albany Police Dept.

28.   Alameda Co. Library

29.   Above ground BART tracks

30.   No BART stations

31.   Albany Girls Softball League

32.   Zero tolerance for “massage parlors”

33.   AMS Track (King’s track is second rate)

34.   No bollards

35.   Albany Washing Well

36.   Club Mallard

37.   Hotsy Totsy Club

38.   Ivy Room

39.   Mary and Joe’s

40.   Julianna Psychic

41.   Grazzy Burgers

42.   Albany Taproom

43.   Albany Post Office

44.   Solano Yogurt and Ice Cream

45.   Albany Farmer’s Market

46.   Zarri’s Delicatessen

47.   90 year old van drivers on lower Solano

48.   Golden Gate Fields

49.   Albany Twin

50.   Albany Stroller and Rollers