I am not going to make this horrible incident a political issue or comment on it any further.
But of course not, because there isn't one elected official from the opposite party to blame.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
I suppose the 2 shooters don't live in schenectady county, huh? And I suppose the rapist doesn't live in schenectady county either, huh?
You people are really out of touch with the real issues facing schenectady county! Proctors, just to name one, has vandalism daily! And from who.......THE STREET PEOPLE! With all of the years the non profits have been existing in Schenectady, there shouldn't be ONE street scum left!!! It clearly is NOT working!
The already overburdened taxpayer feeds them, clothes them, puts a roof over their head, tries to educate them.....with NO positive results! Mean time, Savage and Gillen are giving multi-million dollar businesses a free ride!!!
and now.......we have a rapist on the loose in schenectady county along with 2 shooters!!!
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
Schenectady County is making progress! Schenectady County is making progress!-Where?
The entire County is falling apart under these idiot DEMS, led by the one and only SS Savage. The worst County leader in the State. She is finished in January after Sen Farley mops the floor with her. They can't even site a new County Home. That this could occur in Nisky, on busy Balltown Rd, near the NPD is disgusting.
This is only a small handful having to do with downtown. This is information taken from the county records. I would have used links, but the link I tested just brought me to the main page regardless that I copied and pasted.
Parker Building 434 State St Assessed for almost $2 million, looks like it has a 35% tax exemption because of historic. Gee, what residential owners get exemptions because their houses are old? Ends 2012. Predated Savage
P T Development LLC 432 State St If you look up Proctors---on their website, in the yellow pages, etc, the address is 432 State St. To look at the records, it seems it is recorded incorrectly. The description is “detached row building” and it has indicated that the full market value is, get this, just $100! Of course, it is wholly exempt, exemption started in 2008 with no end date. What puzzles me is that there is no way in hell that this building has a full market value of just $100. ALL property always has a real full value and then the assessment which is a portion (or more) of the full value based on the equalization rate. Then exemptions are take from the assessment value. Like a church might be assessed for $500,000 and have an exemption for $500,000. That is, the assessment on a non-profit would never be $0 or something. This 432 State St is listed as full market value AND assessed value at $100.
P T Development (without the LLC) 430 State St. Looking at the tax map, this property very clearly is the former Carl Co. The property description is “attached row bldg.” This huge property also is indicated to have a full market value and assessment value of $100, again, wholly exempt, starting in 2008 with no end date.
Hampton Inn – 450 State St. It is assessed for $8,763,500. Yes, that is almost $9 million, nine million dollars. The place gets an exemption in the amount of $6,134,450 which is roughly a 70% exemption. Why???? A for profit business, a business that is worth hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars; Hampton and Hilton are basically one company, a worldwide company. But we pay most of their property taxes. A very very generous gift from Savage to a super rich business while Savage causes our taxes to go up to cover the cost of the tax exemption
Bombers, 447 State St. A for profit business. Now how do they do this one? It’s assessed at 100%, the assessed value is $531,000 but it gets an exemption of $774,000? So, I guess the taxpayers are giving Bombers a check on the date we pay our taxes? The roughly 150% property tax exemption has a start date of 2010 and no end date. A very generous gift from Savage which causes the taxes of the residential homeowners, struggling financially, to cover the cost of the taxes.
Center City – 433 State St. assessed for $6.3 million and WHOLLY exempt – a Savage gift we have had our taxes increased for.
DOT Building. 328 State St. It’s assessed for just over $10 million, has an exemption of about $1.4 which ends in 2012 – predated Savage’s big free wheel spending
Bow Tie theater. 400 State St. Assessed for $7.5 million, it’s a for profit-business, and it pays taxes on only $525,000, meaning it has a 93% tax exemption started in 2007 - there is no end date. Another generous gift from Savage to a for-profit business---causing the struggling seniors on fixed incomes to pay the taxes
that Paul Mitchell cosmetology school, a for profit business. 411 State St Assessed for $2,207,500 Wholly exempt, exemption ends in 2025 (after all the taxpayers have left the city) – a Savage gift to a for profit by causing our taxes to increase to cover the cost of the well-heeled.
R & S Restaurant Holdings 411 State St. This is Nico’s Pizza – long time business downtown, assessed for $430,700 predating Savage, no tax exemption
Arts Center and Theater 436 State St. Property class is “bank”, so we all know. Assessed for $538,900, wholly exempt, a Savage tax increase on the struggling overtaxed residents of the city, started in 2010 and no end date
OTB – 325 State St. Assessed for just under $1.4 million, and wholly exempt!??!?!
Rudnicks. 308 State St. Assessed for $334,200. Very very long time downtown business. No exemption, not that I would expect them to have one, but here’s a business that stayed through the worst, and they foot their whole bill, and surely their profit and income is only a teeny fraction of these well heeled political cronies buddies of Savage, so their reward for hanging in there is to keep paying the taxes and subsidize the Savage’s buddies
Villa Italia. 226 Broadway. Very very very wealthy family and business. Assessment $815,500. Wholly exempt from property taxes – no end date to exemption. A Savage gift to a rich political crony, resulting in a HUGE tax increase to the struggling homeowners in the city.
Marcella’s Appliances. 560 Broadway For profit business, in business in the city for a long time. Brand spankin new building. Assessment $2,275,300 Wholly exempt from taxes – a Savage project
38 Broadway - I think this is Pinhead Susan’s – Assessment $385,615 A small exemption of just under $14,000 and that ends in two years – project predated Savage (who gives out 100% exemptions)
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
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
The second I saw that profoundly stupid commercial, I said the same thing. Apparently, the agency that created it never heard of the very simple concept of pre-airing it to a focus group before spending a few grand airing it over, and over.
I don't know of a single person that didn't laugh, and roll their eyes when they saw it. They might as well have had a commercial featuring Kaczmarek, Lewis, Lemuel Smith, and the $300k golf pro endorsing her.
The second I saw that profoundly stupid commercial, I said the same thing. Apparently, the agency that created it never heard of the very simple concept of pre-airing it to a focus group before spending a few grand airing it over, and over.
I don't know of a single person that didn't laugh, and roll their eyes when they saw it. They might as well have had a commercial featuring Kaczmarek, Lewis, Lemuel Smith, and the $300k golf pro endorsing her.
We can thank her ad agency for NOT pre-airing the miracle ad. EVERYONE got a chance to view it and get a good laugh out of it. It was the water cooler joke with the state office workers!!
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
Rape charged in October incident NISKAYUNA — A 22-year-old Schenectady man was charged with felony rape and robbery in connection with an incident reported last October. Police Friday charged Albel Melendez Jr. of Dean Street. He is accused of raping a woman at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 16 near Van Antwerp Road and Union Street. The victim said the man approached her as she walked. She said the man was riding a bicycle and that he spoke with her for a few minutes. She said he then got off the bicycle, grabbed her and pushed her between two buildings, and then assaulted her. She walked to her home and called police. Melendez was sent to Schenectady County Jail on $100,000 bail.
This is the spillover from the problems dumped in this area from downstate. Sooner or later New York will have to deal with the high cost of large numbers of unemployable people with problems living here, instead of just shifting them around. Cuomo wants to close prisons? What is his plan for dealing with this? So far the plan seems to be to pretend there is no problem, or to call people who notice the problem names like racist, bigot, etc.
The DEMS got the pretending there is no problem thing down. We need to bring back the death penalty for criminals like this. This could never have happened in Niskayuna 20 years ago. Unsafe to walk on Van Antwerp Rd?
Rereading this many old chestnuts come back. We stuck a fork in SS Savage and she blasted off to the State. The Parker Inn-well the 35% tax reduction was simply not enough. Neither was the Lion King dividend. The tax exempt 'arts' center is now a tax exempt banquet hall for connected political pigs. OTB has closed. The jewelry store has fled. Nothing has benefited the oppressed County taxpayers with the 24th highest taxes in the Nation. But Mercury Morris and Death Ray have pursued new mansions.
As long as this County refuses to do home inspections to make sure receipts aka {clients} actually reside here and not in the Bronx-nothing will improve. They can put up more new facades, new curbing for all of State Street, have Proctor's take over the entire block. The dereliction of duty is shocking. Even Albany County prosecuted food stamp fraud after 4 years.
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Schenectady County is making progress! Schenectady County is making progress!-Where?
