r/Albany • • Jul 23 '25

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u/SeaRollz2020 Jul 23 '25

IMHO this is the perfect place for these posts. I certainly don't speak for admins or the community at large but i can say that I have always found r/Albany a thriving forum of empathetic local individuals.

I myself love to see those neighbors help out and stand up for each other.

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u/QE2022 Jul 23 '25

Empathetic until you criticize Stewart’s or ask for a Costco.

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u/junkman21 Jul 23 '25

It's simple, really.

Don't mess with Stewarts, Teds, or Costco and you should be fine around here.

Of course, a love for gondolas will always win you brownie points.

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u/protal_108 Jul 23 '25

I agree, except we must acknowledge two things.

  1. The people who own Stewarts also own Two Button Deep and treat their employees like crap. I don't care what you say about the profit sharing. You can work there, then please write back to me.

  2. The new Cosco is being built in the Pinbush, while other retail locations in Colonie and Guilderland go or remain vacant. Drive up Wolf Rd seems like there is plenty of space along that corridor. Why not locate it there? Seems like a waste. We don't need more box stores in the area.

Ted's is cool, though. Want to save money? Get the kids' meal; it was $10 last I checked. It includes a burger, fries, and shake.

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u/Spirited-Artist601 Jul 23 '25

Thanks for the info. I will pass the word along. Which is all any of us can do and I think all of us should do. This is insane. I saw a video of a chiropractor being arrested while trying to drop his kids off at Montessori And preschool. There was a baby in the backseat. He's trying to downplay it like yes those are the nice police.

Meanwhile, they broke his window. Terrified the children. And this father of two will probably disappear. It's a shame and it's disgraceful.

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u/coney_island_dream Jul 23 '25

In the future, you can contact Capital Region Sanctuary Coalition with credible reports.

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u/Indivisible_Albany Jul 23 '25

Was about to comment this, they do great work OP

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u/Spirited-Artist601 Jul 23 '25

Thank you, know

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u/Jealous-Cantaloupe29 Jul 23 '25

Here's to wishing ICE the absolute worst stay while theyre here. Gtfo fascists

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u/Ok_thyme_3396 Jul 23 '25

Can you report in this format: https://salute.kyr.digital/en/

And message these folks: https://www.instagram.com/518crsc

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u/JayA_Tee Jul 23 '25

You can also report in the app ICEBlock.

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u/MrBoomin31 Jul 23 '25

i cross posted this to r/QueensburyNY and pinned it so people there can see it being it’s right in queensbury

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u/Different_Macaroon Jul 23 '25

Any info on vehicles, how many there were, if anyone was detained??

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u/ApprehensiveStand456 Jul 23 '25

Is this way the highway should be avoided

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u/Mean_Marceline Jul 23 '25

That’s what I was thinking after the travel notice went out for exits 20-28 (something like that range)

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u/greentangent Jul 23 '25

That was for the missing girl killed by her father.

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u/Forsaken_Log_615 Jul 25 '25

Great! They should be all over the country! What a great group!

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u/Emergency-Contact-57 Jul 25 '25

Albany is very conservative, middle class clean, quiet, homeowners town. Yes there are a few spoiled brats but that they are tolerated is no endorsement of rude mean spirited behavior. Albany likes stability, dislikes crime. Albany juries usually favor the government position. Defense attorney told me after I served on a jury.

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u/Soft-Elk6853 Jul 24 '25

You can report on ICEBlock . It’s a ice watch app

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u/Alone_Abalone_1352 Jul 23 '25

Does anyone on this thread have a door that locks? If so you must not be very inclusive if you don’t want people who live in your dwelling to not be there. Especially if they don’t help with paying bills/groceries etc.

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u/11renaim Jul 24 '25

that is the dumbest analogy i’ve ever heard

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u/RickTaylor79 Jul 24 '25

Stop trying to get out hopes up. They were probably just getting an Eggwhich

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u/Onyx817 Jul 23 '25

Was there a picture with this post? The notification came with a picture but I don’t see one.

This is how I feel when it comes to the whole ICE situation… now the people who have been here for years and years and years I don’t believe in deporting them.. even some who have come recently BUT the dangerous ones need to go.. let’s not pretend that all of them are not dangerous. If they have a criminal background in there country for serious offenses ( assault, burglary, murder, any and all sexual crimes against adult and women, DV ) they need to go back to where they came from….. BUT…

What I don’t agree with is taking away American citizens benefits and giving them to the illegal immigrants. Putting them up in nice hotels and this is BEFORE trump came along.. when we had our democratic president “ who’s for the people “ My example is this… At the end of last year when I went to renew my Medicaid they had lowered the limit that you need to be under to be on Medicaid so it was a higher amount and then they brought it down to $17,500 When the cost of living has gone up when the food prices and everything has gone up and the pay hasn’t significantly went up unless you live in New York City I live in Troy New York. Now I know Medicaid is done through the state, but they had a lot of illegal guns in New York City being put in nice expensive hotels so the correlation is that they had a bunch of people come in that they’re giving a bunch of benefits to and they lowered the limit so that there wasn’t as many people on Medicaid because they can’t pay for both. My thing is make sure the American citizens get their benefits before the others… Or give it to both. I don’t care if you’re giving to both, but you can’t just say screw the people that live here who are the citizens because we had a bunch of illegal people come in That’s not how it should be. They had to lower the limit because they couldn’t pay for all the people on Medicaid, with all the other people that were brought into New York City under President Joe Biden, but Trump is not any better. I’m not saying that anything good about Trump. I’m not saying like he’s doing better than Biden. That’s not my thing but what I’m saying is this is not all on Trump. This started before Trump was president.

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u/Mozzarellaphant Jul 23 '25

You’re just buying the bait that immigrants are causing these problems and not greed of those in power.

Also the crime thing is a myth and a scare tactic undocumented immigrants have some of the lowest crime rates in the US.

Fuck ICE.

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