Albany’s Alfred E. Smith Building Is a Testament to Reading
6 min readMay 9, 2022
If you were to ask my friends from our high-school class of 1969 about the Alfred E. Smith Building in Albany, New York, some of them might be able to tell you that this 34-story building is named after the four-term governor of New York State. Most of them, however, would only remember a funny incident that occurred there in 1965 when we visited as part of our eighth-grade trip. And I…
