Flagpole installation inAlbany, NY

Flagpoles in Albany

A government town before it is anything else: the Capitol, the agency towers on the Plaza, the courts, and the associations and lobbying offices that follow them. We cover Albany and the Albany County area, including the State Capitol and the Empire State Plaza, Center Square and Washington Park, the Pastures, Lark Street, the Port of Albany and the Hudson riverfront, the Harriman State Office Campus and the University at Albany.

Wind here. Albany sits in an inland, sandy-soiled area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Albany's Historic Resources Commission reviews exterior work in the city's local historic districts, among them Center Square-Hudson Park, the Mansion district, the Pastures and Lafayette Park. On one of those addresses the height, the placement and the finish are settled in front of the board first and the permit follows after, and we prepare the drawings for it. The ground is the other half of the job. Albany sits on what Glacial Lake Albany left behind: dune and delta sand at the top, lake-bottom silt and clay beneath that, then till over shale. An auger that goes through the sand easily does not behave the same way ten feet down, so the depth gets worked out rather than assumed. The wind is the flat 115 mph the whole of upstate reads, and on an Albany job it is the easy part.

Most of the people who call us from Albany are state agency and authority buildings, county and city facilities, associations and government-affairs offices, hospitals and medical schools, colleges, churches, veterans posts and downtown offices.