Thanks, perpster, for the overview of the women's suffrage movement in the area. I would bet they aren't discussing suffrage -- they're talking racing. Beldame won the Saratoga Cup that year.

The building at the center of the photo with the narrow columns, a little past where the sidewalk turns left, is the Adelphi Hotel, which opened in 1877 and is still in business. It's beautiful inside and out.

https://theadelphihotel.com/

Subjective and complicated to compare, but I sure would like to hang out there for a little while. Approximate spot in modern times, thanks to Google Street View:

The two men on Division Street are possibly pondering the possible end of the division of the right to vote between men and women. Upstate New York was a hotbed of the women's suffrage movement.

https://nyassembly.gov/member_files/058/20090226/

On July 20, 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY, 180 miles west of this photograph, the inaugural Women’s Rights Convention produced the Declaration of Sentiments regarding women's suffrage. It was signed by 68 "Ladies" and 32 "Gentlemen present in favor of this new movement". The Ladies included Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Gentlemen included Frederick Douglass and James Mott.

On July 13, 1869, just two blocks south of the intersection preserved in this photograph, at Broadway and Congress Street, a meeting was held to form the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. It was held in Congress Hall, a non-extant hotel in what is now Congress Park.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=224035

On November 6, 1917, New York State voters passed New York Amendment 1, Women's Suffrage Measure, to the NYS Constitution. The vote was 703,129 Yes votes to 600,776 No votes (53.92% to 46.08%).

The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified by three-quarters of the state legislatures by August 18, 1920.

I can't tell -- does he have an iPhone or an Android? Regardless, it's probably one of those old flip phones from back in the day.

... some big decision on the street of Division.

When this photo first appeared I said to myself "I bet those steps go down to a barbershop". After I embiggened the image the sign confirmed my thought that a barber and a few other vendors were located down there.

However, in Google Street View, you can see that the next two buildings alongside of the hotel are still standing.

Majestic looking building. Waiting for someone to post the year it burned down.

[??? The title of the photo *is* "Horner Corner." - Dave]

Wow. What a dufus I am! I'm not sure what I was looking at when I posted that. Well, good then!