A City Divided
Nearly a third of the population of the city of Albany is Black. The vast majority of those residents live in only three neighborhoods: West Hill, Arbor Hill and the South End. These neighborhoods have the city’s highest poverty rates and lowest percentages of homeownership. On this episode of The Eagle, reporters Massarah Mikati and Eduardo Medina discuss their investigation of how the process of redlining almost a century ago splintered New York's capital city along racial lines, and how it locked in pervasive segregation and economic inequities that persist today.
