Schenectady awarded $50K for Liberty Park redesign, lower State Street
Schenectady officials are looking to give one gateway into the city a facelift.
The City of Schenectady was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Capital District Transportation Committee to revamp a portion of lower State Street to create Gateway Plaza to boost redevelopment efforts.
City officials are working with county officials, Schenectady County Community College and Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority on the project to landscape and expand the park, prepare for student housing, new Bus Plus transit station and demolish a vacant garage. Metroplex will also match the grant with $20,000 toward the project.
“This grant allows us to take the next step in the revitalization of our downtown. This is an important link in the progress we’ve made redeveloping our major corridors, and that progress will continue,” said Susan Savage, D-Niskayuna, chairwoman of the Schenectady County Legislature, in a statement...................>>>>............................>>>>......................http://www.spotlightnews.com/n.....mp;utm_campaign=News
Re April 1 article, “Lower State Street next on city’s list”: What good news that our city’s former Westinghouse Park — more recently Liberty Park — at the base of State Street will be redesigned. Also nice to hear Mr. [Metroplex Chairman Ray] Gillen recognize that it is neither beast nor fowl, and to join with me in noting those “strange mounds of dirt.” I look forward to the public hearings, and hope people will come forward with good ideas. At the very least we need a historic marker recognizing George Westinghouse Jr., inventor of the air brake, which did so much to aid development of our country. Westinghouse also dared to face off with [Thomas] Edison, often using his own money and profits to bring electricity to the country in a way Edison’s direct current could not. Hopefully educational markers such as those on the Scotia side of the bridge could show how Washington Avenue in Schenectady and in Scotia are linked in our history. A creative exhibit of agricultural, locomotive and electrical history in “the basin” — at the low-lying area between State Street, Washington Avenue and Erie Boulevard — can bring to light Schenectady’s glorious past.
they first thing they need to do to clean up the park is to stop MC from sleeping on the bench at the bus stop after one of his drunken orgies with GB and MT
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
A creative exhibit of agricultural, locomotive and electrical history in “the basin” — at the low-lying area between State Street, Washington Avenue and Erie Boulevard — can bring to light Schenectady’s glorious past.
Can we get a creative exhibit that can bring to light Schenectady's horrific present? Maybe a display of a line of people standing in front of the Human Services building and a hotdog vendor. Our leaders need to be reminded that there are stray bullets flying though windows, while we handed out $75 million in cash, and property tax exemptions to cronies for otherwise bankrupted businesses.
Let's stop reminiscing about the past, and start seriously dealing with the harsh reality of today.
they first thing they need to do to clean up the park is to stop MC from sleeping on the bench at the bus stop after one of his drunken orgies with GB and MT
Maybe you should be cleaning up the park in exchange for living off the taxpayer dole.
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.
Maybe you should be cleaning up the park in exchange for living off the taxpayer dole.
Since I don't receive a penny of money from the taxpayers .. you keep proving that you are an il-informed maggot.
BTW -- I participate in clean up days at a number of locations every year -- never saw your pitiful personage atany of them .. so basically "go screw yourself".
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The should install loungers for the denizens of the Y. Nothing will improve until the Y housing is relocated. Stockade residents have been saying this for years to the tin ears of the City/Metrograft "leadership".
The fact that Landslide Savage thinks this dinky park is part of any "renaissance" shows how delusional she is. She should walk from Erie to the bridge {during daylight hours} and then tell us how this dinky park will improve anything.
Since I don't receive a penny of money from the taxpayers .. you keep proving that you are an il-informed maggot.
BTW -- I participate in clean up days at a number of locations every year -- never saw your pitiful personage atany of them .. so basically "go screw yourself".
You have no job! You DO live off the taxpayer dole, "auntie's boy" taxpayer dole. Care to explain why you are not an indepdent responsible adult with a job and a home or apartment of your own, I mean at your age rather than living off the taxpayers' teet?
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.
Instead of working on attracting business by lowering taxes Metrograft/County DEMS keep dumping money into parks, bike paths and the arts. After flushing $100 MILLION they still plow ahead refusing to listen to any business people. The Parker Inn is the first of a wave of bankruptcies and closings.
This is what should be spent on Liberty Park-NOTHING. Forget about any dorms for the Community College. Start thinking about how to save resources instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over. With all the alleged improvements traffic is down, business is down and taxes keep going up.
Those in control don't want to see Schenectady as it really is because that would force them to face the truth and they can't handle that.
You are absolutely correct!!!!! Sure downtown was a ghost town, but the the residents can not carry the tax burden to revitalize it!!! The DEMS have delivered the city a lie! There is no economic development in the city. Only tax paid, tax supported, tax exempt businesses. With a school district that has a 50% graduation rate.
It's all a lie! A false sense of economic security! The fact of the matter is, the taxpayers are paying for businesses where there is no economic support. Supply and demand is what drives the economy.....not the taxpayers hard earned money. Schenectady's only demand is for government entitlements........and the city is more than generous to supply it at the taxpayer's expense!!
The truth is..........schenectady has NOTHING!!!! Nothing but a failing infrastructure, high crime, high taxes, more than their share of section 8 housing, an overflowing dss building, drug dealers, prostitutes, TWO Hamilton Hills and a record number of vacant property!!
Perhaps the GOP has learned a hard valuable lesson when they created the plex beast!! If elected perhaps they should consider redeeming themselves by abolishing something that they should have never been created in the first place.
Abolish the plex. Let it all fall and rebuild from the ground up. Invest in infrastructure, bump up the police force, lower the welfare handout entitlements, cut all non essential departments by 10%, make ALL businesses pay 100% of their 'actual' assessed value(starting immediately), pilots for all non-profits, get rid of all patronage jobs..............LET'S MAKE IT 'REAL'!!! The folks can handle it....really!!!
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
Under the unified DEM economic redevelopment team the entire City has become Hamilton Hill. There is no difference between Albany St, Van Vranken, Crane St or Broadway. Now the crime wave/rot is spilling over into the towns.
The entire County is being pulled down by the current DEM "leaders" that keep doubling down on Downtown. There is more bad news in the TU today. Instead of tackling a problem they stick with useless arts spending, parks {that no one can afford} and more bike paths. When things go wrong they blame Manning or Mayor Al. At least the Gazetto is starting to wake up on McCarthy and the City DEM implosion team. Carl basically endorsed Roger Hull today. When they will wake up on Savage/Death Ray is anyone's guess.
they first thing they need to do to clean up the park is to stop MC from sleeping on the bench at the bus stop after one of his drunken orgies with GB and MT
What will happen when the taxpayer dole dies off? And no job, no house, no ability to be an independent adult. Guess it will be the Y for DV
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.
"This grant allows us to take the next step in revitalization of Downtown," stated parting SS Savage. Huh? WTF? How does enlarging an unused park help anything?
What they need is new leadership to close the old Y {not move it to Broadway} and bring in actual retail below Erie. Moving the joke DSIC or enlarging a park does nothing towards "revitalization". When you lack vision, have no idea how to improve the business climate, don't be surprised when you have no accomplishments.
What will happen when the taxpayer dole dies off? And no job, no house, no ability to be an independent adult. Guess it will be the Y for DV
The city taxpayer dole is dying off as we speak at an alarming rate. That is one reason why the few that are left are paying the highest taxes in the state. Couple that with the shouldering of the tax exempt businesses and you have a perfect storm for failure!
The city/county government has no regard for it's residents. They continue to give tax paid contracts to the friends and family club for parks and the arts and drunks district. And now they have created TWO Hamilton Hills. They promised to clean up Hamilton Hill, but instead just created another one (mt. pleasant)!!!
A new park? paleezzzeee!
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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The should install loungers for the denizens of the Y. Nothing will improve until the Y housing is relocated. Stockade residents have been saying this for years to the tin ears of the City/Metrograft "leadership". 
