Central Avenue (Albany, New York)

Albany is the farthest north an ocean ship can sail up the Hudson, and Schenectady is the easternmost point of navigation on the Mohawk (due to Cohoes Falls).

This was the major way to travel, and for trade to ship, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes region, including all points in between along the Mohawk River before the opening of the Erie Canal (1825) and the Albany and Schenectady Railroad (1831).

The name dropped out of favor due to the pre-Civil War decline of the neighborhood along the Bowery in New York City.

On July 15, 1867, Albany's Common Council officially renamed the road Central Avenue, though the term had unofficially been depreciated well before.

Later on, the famous "Oriental Occidental Restaurant" opened at 44 State Street but closed and is now the "... site of Jack's Oyster House.