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First of all. LOL
Second, as a kid, we were always told to stay away from "the Hill", because it wasn't safe. That was in the '50's. I'm pretty sure if I dug back into the Gazette archives from earlier than that I could still find stories about shootings on "the Hill". Sad.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,"
Mount Pleasant is just as bad now, with Bellevue next up on the sh!t list...BUT downtown looks great for the out of town patrons and business owners who also live outside the city... Renaissance... for who??
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
Mount Pleasant is just as bad now, with Bellevue next up on the sh!t list...BUT downtown looks great for the out of town patrons and business owners who also live outside the city... Renaissance... for who??
I have an idea.
Maybe we should build a giant wall around downtown to keep the savages away.
Second, as a kid, we were always told to stay away from "the Hill", because it wasn't safe. That was in the '50's. I'm pretty sure if I dug back into the Gazette archives from earlier than that I could still find stories about shootings on "the Hill". Sad.
REALLY!! I knew many folks who lived on the hill and it WAS safe. People walked it all the time! Same with Crane Street.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
REALLY!! I knew many folks who lived on the hill and it WAS safe. People walked it all the time! Same with Crane Street.
Mount Pleasant WAS a working class neighborhood (mostly GE) that was even split between Polish and Italian..for the most part. The Polish residents were mostly on 1st to 5th avenues and the Italians were from 6th on up...It was a safe neighborhood until about the early to mid seventies, when children who had long since moved to the 'burbs, ended up either renting or selling their parents places to whoever would pay... The transformation was pretty much complete by about 2000 and is the dump you see now... I go by my grandparents old house on 3rd avenue every once in a while and it breaks my heart to see how run down it is, and the surrounding houses are... These houses were neat as pins back in the day...such a shame.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
A call for shots fired came in around 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The incident happened near the intersection of Stanley and Steuben Streets.
Officials say no one was injured in the incident, but continue to investigate.
CHEER CHEER says DV! In broad daylight, in summer when innocent children can be playing outside. No money to have adequate police protection in the neighborhoods where the taxpayers live!
Must focus and put all the tax dollars to benefit the millionaires downtown Those taxpayer funded gin mills are supposedly the saving grace of the city
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
CHEER CHEER says DV! In broad daylight, in summer when innocent children can be playing outside. No money to have adequate police protection in the neighborhoods where the taxpayers live!
Must focus and put all the tax dollars to benefit the millionaires downtown Those taxpayer funded gin mills are supposedly the saving grace of the city
and do you think the hill would be better now if their taxes were lower and downtown didn't exist? what would the reps do? make it harder to get welfare? abolish the METROPLEX/GILLEN? handle the police dept differently?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
and do you think the hill would be better now if their taxes were lower and downtown didn't exist? what would the reps do? make it harder to get welfare? abolish the METROPLEX/GILLEN? handle the police dept differently?
Well should financially struggling homeowners pay out of their pockets to build lavish new buildings for millionaire? Or should the millionaires pay out of their pockets.
Homeowners can't afford to fix up their homes, can't afford to replace a roof, can't afford to make repairs to the code violations the city cites them with. Are the downtown millionaires giving money to the homeowners to repair their homes?
Galesis is a billionaire. He owns the old DSS building. Homeowners can't afford to make necessary repairs to their own homes but they are being forced to pay for the demo of the old DSS building owned by billionaire Galesi1 WHY?
Make the downtown property owners pay out of their own pockets 100% for building or renovating and make them pay 100% out of their own pockets for their taxes. That way, the taxes on the homeowners in the city would be lower and people would be more likely to buy houses in the city.
WHO wants to buy a house IN Schenectady and pay $7,000 in taxes which goes to fund the tax bills of downtown millionaires and billionaires when you can go to Albany and by the same kind of house and pay $5,000, go to Saratoga and pay even less in taxes for the same house?
No other city around here is using tax money build as much in their downtowns as Schenectady. And their home values are increasing, home sales increasing, and home sale prices for equivalent houses are much above Schenectady. Taxes are lower.
Schenectady, instead of making millionaires pay for their own buildings makes the families with incomes of $40,000 pay for he new buildings. Then the homeowners can't fix up their homes, city financially penalizes them, city will not give the any money to fix up their homes, and then makes them pay even more money for more buildings for millionaires. Then homeowners can't afford to pay the taxes, they lose their homes, they abandon their homes.
When downtown was a ghost town, we had more jobs around here, people were actually buying houses IN the city, neighborhoods were cleaner and safer, the city provided more services to the taxpayers.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
When downtown was a ghost town, we had more jobs around here, people were actually buying houses IN the city, neighborhoods were cleaner and safer, the city provided more services to the taxpayers.
When downtown was a ghost town, there certainly were not MORE jobs around here!!! Where were the jobs and who was the job creators? Look, I'm obviously not a fan of METROPLEX/GILLEN...but let's be realistic here......Did METROPLEX/GILLEN cause Generous Electric to leave? Did it cause a substandard school system? Did it open the flood gates to welfare recipients? (Actually Jurzynski (sp) did that.)
The only sin METROPLEX/GILLEN is guilty of is being a FAILURE!!! It promised substantial job creation and bringing in businesses to lower property taxes. Well that is clearly a FAILURE!!
BUT....if the dems were all voted out tomorrow and the reps took over........THINGS WOULD LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME!!!
In fact i'd bet the farm that if the reps were in control...Gillen would be replaced with Neil Golub who has also benefited from METROPLEX/GILLEN.
Like i said before....find yerself a candidate that will campaign on abolishing the METROPLEX/GILLEN and will make all businesses pay 100% of their 100% assessed taxes!!
Good luck!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Was born on Hullet st and there until age 6 moved to Bellevue. Hamilton Hill was a great place to grow up in the 60's. I moved back to Hullet St as a teen and it had already started to deteriorate : (
I beg to differ with Alva White.......in the 50's it was not dangerous in Hamilton Hill....the upper class was probably told that because of the Afrco American
population that was mainly in Lincoln Heights.....kids walked to Washington Irving and then on to NTHS without incident...in fact our major for our band at
NTHS was a Afro Amercian (politically correct?)...there were block parties on the corner of Hamilton Hill and Veeder Ave....no incident......Schonowee Village
(across the street from Lincoln Heights) was populated by Caucasian families.....no incidents..
so whatever you were told back in the 50's was in error my fellow blogger....do not compare what was then to what there is in that neighborhood today...
it boils me up when anyone causes these kinds of rumors because of what they were told....
we sat side by side in school.....in band......in all sports......and no incident.....we all knew our place and I don't call that racism ...I call that respect...
I suggest an apology is needed and AW statement is offensive and biased........I was raised in that neighborhood and have no regrets of where I lived.....
it was simple, decent living and respect of all neighbors....most were blue collar workers who went to work mainly walked and worked at the GE....
lunch box in hand....from the 7 AM GE whistle to the 4 PM whistle...5 days a week....so what was there to be afraid of......decent people, raising a family
and looking to a better life.....by the end of the 50's most of these families moved out and bought homes ....the kids I grew up with all had productive
lives as well as the kids from the Heights......proud I am to say I came from that neighborhood....
AMEN
PS......that neighborhood was made of of Polish, Italian, Irish and etc.,.....and immigrants to boot.....so look in your archives...
you are definitely wrong about crime in that era.... you are an embarrassment to even have printed that...and you insulted the whole
populated neighborhood of God fearing and decent families....
I beg to differ with Alva White.......in the 50's it was not dangerous in Hamilton Hill....
Agree!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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