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Streets of Schenectady are lined with litter

    On Aug. 3, I had an appointment in Schenectady, and as I drove down McClellan Street I was in total disgust with what I saw.
    The street, sidewalks and lawns were totally filled with litter and garbage. Bottles, cans, papers and other debris were everywhere. The convenient store on the corner of Bradley Street was surrounded with garbage. What a way to run a business! Doesn’t anyone take pride in their neighborhood? Doesn’t Schenectady have a sanitation department or at least a street sweeper?
    I traveled back home to Rotterdam on other Schenectady streets and many of them were also filthy. We are summer residents outside of Gloversville and travel back and forth several times each week. The other places we go through, such as Johnstown, Amsterdam and Scotia, as well as our home town of Rotterdam, should be very proud. Residents are often seen cleaning their sidewalks and picking up litter.
    On our way to Schenectady going through Amsterdam, we saw an older lady with her hose, washing off her sidewalk and the gutters in the street. Shame on you, Schenectady, for letting your city decay like this.

    GRACE DECKER
    Rotterdam

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Litter? How about the boarded up houses? What about the condition of the pavement? The explosion of gangs?

     But don't fret the City Council has a new "plan". They will beautiful Erie Boulevard with bike paths and pocket parks that no one wants. Then they will do a housing survey because the code enforcers are too busy-lol-

Filling pot holes and cleaning streets does not make for a good campaign slogan.  Bike paths and parks are more sexy and get the votes.  

Voters are stupid.

That lady is 100% correct. People that live in the city have no pride or esteem any more for their surroundings. The amount of trash they throw on their own sidewalks and lawns is astounding. Aren't you glad we brought our urban culture down to the lowest third world common denominator in the past 20 years?

Welcome to the Bronx North! It's hard to throw any DEM bums out when they are all running unopposed. But at least we have Metrograft to help with facades. SS has promised to do to NYS what she did to Schenectady.