Fountain Figure

Someone has mounted a comical figurine with outstretched arms atop the Civil War-era fountain in tiny Bleecker Park at Madison Avenue and Eagle Street.

Bleecker Park

A slim wedge of land along Madison Avenue just across from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Bleecker Park is one of Albany's oldest green spaces (Liberty Park, further east, is older). On a hot afternoon, some chubby robins were cooling themselves in its ornamental fountain.