Forgotten in life, interrupted in death Albany -- University Heights project rising atop almshouse's burial field may force relocation of remains by: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer Such is the lot of the poor, the unwanted, the unidentified and the forgotten of 19th-century Albany -- laid to rest in more than a thousand unmarked graves now paved over by a parking lot. They were the city's most marginal inhabitants, whose deaths were allotted one line apiece in a ledger kept at the Albany County Hall of Records. ' Unknown man, found drowned in the river,'' one entry reads. 'Died suddenly in jail,'' says another. Many state simply, 'Stillborn.'' Since early March, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of four people behind the New Scotland Avenue Armory while doing site work for the University Heights project -- a campus for a consortium of local colleges that could eventually include a megabookstore and food court in the old armory as well as a hotel and conference center. To read the rest of the article, go to: http://timesunion.com/ss.asp?s=31983&c=F To visit the site's homepage, go to http://timesunion.com