Edited sentence: After Fort Albany and the stockade were removed Maiden Lane was extended west as far as Eagle Street.Being one block north of State Street it was often used as a service road for the buildings fronting on the north side of State.In the 1970s an urban renewal project called the Hotel Ten Eyck Project destroyed Maiden Lane between Chapel and North Pearl streets, while Pine Street was extended east from Chapel to Broadway to take up the traffic that could no longer use Maiden Lane.Maiden Lane and Pine Street are two parallel streets with an entwined history.Maiden Lane between Eagle and Chapel streets has since been renamed Corning Place in honor of Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd, and the section between North Pearl and James streets is the only section still open to vehicular traffic, the rest of the remaining sections being turned into a pedestrian mall.Maiden Lane is the older of the two, it was one of the original streets within the stockade and was called Rom Street.Maiden Lane ran from Fort Albany and western edge of the stockade east to the Hudson River, where there was a ferry that crossed to the other side of the river.Pine Street was originally a short two block street running west from Barrack (Chapel) Street to the stockade and later as far as Eagle Street.The Hudson River Way pedestrian bridge over Interstate 787 goes from where Maiden Lane meets Broadway and allows for access to the Corning Preserve and Hudson River