Join the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District as we mark  successes of the past year, lay the groundwork for future goals and projects and celebrate Albany's quadricentennial.

 

 

The Sports Foundation of New York’s Capital Region will receive the annual Compass Award which recognizes an individual, organization or business that has exemplified a spirit of partnership with the Downtown Albany BID and has been instrumental in charting a course for success in downtown.  The work by Sports Foundation volunteers to secure downtown Albany as home to regional and national athletic organizations such as the NCAA, the ECAC, the MAAC and the NYSPHSAA has had extraordinary value to our downtown community.    Over the past 15 years, these events have lured more than 500,000 fans and close to $40 million in economic impact to Albany and the Region.  The tireless efforts of this organization are a year-round endeavor ensuring a total experience for the fans by creating Fan Fest activities during their stay.  These Fan Fests raised the bar on a national level in competing to win the bids for upcoming tournaments.  

 

William Kennedy is a novelist whose writing centers on life in Albany, New York.  He has published seven novels in his Albany Cycle, treating life in Albany during the 19th and 20th centuries.   The novels are Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983), which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a PEN-Faulkner Award, and was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; Quinn's Book (1988), Very Old Bones (1992), The Flaming Corsage (1996), and Roscoe (2002), a tale of the Albany political machine between the World Wars.  Roscoe was a finalist for the Pen-Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle awards.  His work has been translated into two dozen languages.  His first novel was The Ink Truck (1969).

Kennedy co-authored the screenplay for The Cotton Club with Francis Coppola (1984), and wrote the screenplay for Ironweed (1987), directed by Hector Babenco.  He wrote an impressionistic history of his city, O Albany! (1983), and published a collection of his journalism and essays, Riding the Yellow Trolley Car, in 1993.  His first play, Grand View premiered at the Capital Repertory Theater in Albany in 1996. 

Kennedy is founder and executive director of the New York Sate Writers Institute at the University at Albany, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 

 

RSVP required by Wednesday, June 17.

Call 518.465.2143 ext 18 or e-mail fnolles@downtownalbany.org

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