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SCHENECTADY
Resident: Fence gone, prostitutes back
City man says foreclosure made lot accessible again
BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter

    The city’s wave of foreclosures appears to have benefited an unexpected group: prostitutes.
    On Moyston Street in the Vale neighborhood, prostitutes are once again bringing customers to a dark lot at the end of the dead-end street, one area resident says.
    A tax foreclosure led the city to open up that lot, making it easily accessible to anyone looking for an out-of-sight location late at night.
    The location used to be popular with prostitutes, so much so that the noise from their activities used to wake resident Joseph Rodriguez. After a few months, he asked the lot’s owner if he could build a fence to keep the prostitutes out.
    She agreed, so he built a tall stockade fence and the prostitutes found somewhere else for a rendezvous.
    Until September.
    That’s when the city took the lot through a tax foreclosure. The owner had died and no one had paid taxes on it. Code enforcers inspected and immediately discovered the stockade fence, which is illegal in the city.
    Fences along the sidewalk can either be solid and short, or tall and see-through. A 6-foot-tall, solid wood fence does not qualify.
    Rodriguez told the enforcers that he had put up the fence. They told him to take it down by Sept. 10. He did so, and now the prostitutes are back, he said.
    “You can hear the, you know, moaning,” he said. “The sound of the engine and the … noise. They drive in a van and turn the ignition and you can hear it all.”
    And it’s the middle of the night.
    “It wakes me up,” he said. “And people like to dump stuff too. Big pile of trash, in the past. When I put the fence up, that stopped.”
    He said he tried to get police to chase away the prostitutes before he built the fence.
    “We’d call police, but they don’t show up,” he said. “So the woman who owned it, her name was Maria, she gave me permission for the fence.”
    He explained the problem to the code enforcers, he said. He believed they promised concrete barriers, which would keep out vehicular traffic. But it’s been a month since he took down the fence and there’s no barrier yet.
    Building Inspector Eric Shilling said the engineering department would be in charge of planning the barriers, but he said he wasn’t familiar with the situation. A call to the engineering department was not returned.
    In the meantime, Mayor Gary McCarthy said the police should evict the prostitutes.
    “I don’t expect anyone to be inconvenienced or harassed by a criminal element. I expect the police to respond,” he said. ................................>>>>.........................>>>>..........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00102&AppName=1

This is the guy who was paying over $4,000 to the city in taxes, because the mayor claimed his house was worth (i.e., the amount for which the house would sell on the open market), somewhere close to $100,000, on Moyston St.

The mayor can't even succeed at getting nice houses in nice areas (e.g., Upper Union St) to sell for $100,000 but the dem leaders in the city claimed this guys house was worth almost that much.

So the guy went to the assessment board which told him he had insufficient data and the guy had to take the city to court to get his assessment reduced.   The judge ordered it reduced!

Well, his house has just gone down in value some more!

May be true - but story says more about Kathleen Moore and Gezette's style of journalism - this is a front page story, a fence got torn down and hookers
are taking their tricks there.  It;s an easy fix.

When it comes to quality journalism - Moore is less.

so it is the paper's fault. brilliant

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May be true - but story says more about Kathleen Moore and Gezette's style of journalism - this is a front page story, a fence got torn down and hookers
are taking their tricks there.  It;s an easy fix.

When it comes to quality journalism - Moore is less.

Heeheheeeheheheheheheeeee

Think the City has tapped into another way to earn back taxes....

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    In the meantime, Mayor Gary McCarthy said the police should evict the prostitutes.
    “I don’t expect anyone to be inconvenienced or harassed by a criminal element. I expect the police to respond,” he said

In this statement mcmayor has made it very clear that he is NOT going to do anything about this.....why?................
Because he EXPECTS the police to handle it!! NOT MCMAYOR'S PROBLEM!!!

Actually, the mayor said "I expect the police to respond."   That is an indication that he expects something to be done about it -- and not as the nayboobs/constant critics suggest an indication that the mayor will not do something about it.

GB - Reading comprehension and judgment is not your strong suit.  Does this seem to merit the importance of a lead story?

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GB - Reading comprehension and judgment is not your strong suit.  Does this seem to merit the importance of a lead story?

So now you are the arbiter of what is important and what is not? Where is your solution and your action?

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You want to b**ch that the media is against you. welcome to the world of reality. However the gazette could hire 1,000 reporters and print a 500 page paper and they still couldn't touch the surface of the SCREWING the PEOPLE have gotten from the likes of YOU and the other
leeches in the political class who have raped the city into the grave. YOU are part of the problem, NOT MOORE'S REPORTING OF AN ISSUE AND ANOTHER SCHITTY OF SCHITNECKTADY SCREW UP

Actually we found it rather refreshing that the gazetto actually printed a story validating a resident. And they did it two days in a row.

Ya gotta admit, that this is much more realistic and real as compared to the cheerleading that is spewed on a daily basis from the gazetto based clearly on political bias.

Is it possible that the gazetto is going to start printing the reality of the city and how it effects the residents? Now THAT would be refreshing!

One can't believe that the folks in both the city hall and the police dept are hoping that is NOT the case.

GB

Once again, you never miss an opportunity to show how chidlsih you are.  The world is your playpen.  

I try to solve city problems all the time, have solved some fairly important ones.

Never raped any taxpayer out of one red cent.  Earned every penny and have donated quite a bit to non profits in the City.

  

The reality of the city blight doesn't belong on the front page, only the good intentions of not for profits that haven't made one ioda of a difference.  

In my opinion the Daily Gazette is a slanted, hate - filled RAG and this Ms. Moore can GFH. The Mayor AND the police will make sure the matter is taken care of and this is NOT front page news by any stretch of the fertile nayboob imagination.

The cops will patrol the area for a few days and then it will be business as usual, by Sunday night the moans will be heard again. This city is a disaster from the top down and I fear there is no hope left for it.

the mayor expects the police to respond  HAHAHA