The answer is complex, and a wary city has been waiting to hear it.
Since then, the city has been waiting for the federal government to finish the cleanup.
As for those increased rent and tax payments, however, the city will be waiting quite a while.
And questions were quickly raised about why the city had waited so long to release word of the threat.
The city waited for reinforcement from Denmark, but none came.
Several years went by while the city waited for citizens to remove the remains of their families, but few did.
As luck would have it, the city was already waiting for two German churches.
All spring, the city waited to see what Albany would do.
The city has been waiting three years for the Levine era to begin.
There is little dispute that the city waited to alert the public about the threat.