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Despite Schenectady's efforts, deteriorating building still threatens neighbors
Friday, November 26, 2010
By Kathleen Moore (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

SCHENECTADY — A burned-out building is giving its neighbors grief, but the city’s best efforts aren’t helping.
The former Tony’s Meat Market on Broadway burned a year ago. The roof was badly damaged, and as slate tiles began to slide down to its neighbors’ parking lots, the owner did nothing.
Code enforcers inspected the deteriorating building every month for a year. No repairs were ever made, the city said.
The city is now prosecuting him — but that hasn’t helped the owners of the beauty salon and the attorney’s office next door.
They’re trying to maintain their businesses, and they want the building secured or demolished.
“People coming through are getting pelted with slate,” complained Rachel Rappazzo, whose office is on one side of the building.
Walter Brazell, owner of the beauty parlor building, began calling the city when part of the building’s fire escape pulled loose this month.
For a day, it hung over his parking lot.
“It was extremely windy. The ladies in the beauty shop worked late that day. I can’t tell you how nervous I was, with the cars parked in the beauty shop parking lot,” he wrote in a complaint about the situation. “I was so scared that someone would get hurt.”
The metal ladder of the fire escape eventually fell, but it hit the parking lot in the middle of the night when no one was parked there.
Both owners want action.
“All they’re saying is, ‘We’re going to prosecute.’ Well, whoop-de-doo,” Rappazzo said. “That’s not really helpful. The safety of the citizens should be the focus.”
But Assistant Corporation Counsel Kate McGuirl said the city can’t do anything else.
“The problem is, people do have constitutional rights with regards to their property,” she said..............>>>>.....................>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2010/nov/26/1126_meat/

to bad rotterdam does not have a registry

Too bad Rotterdam doesn't have Code Enforcement with cajones.

starts with Mr "GQ" the head of DPW  - looking for that great real estate deal

I thought this was about Olender's Mattress. Please tell us about that miracle again Ms. Savage-lol-

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I thought this was about Olender's Mattress. Please tell us about that miracle again Ms. Savage-lol-

DV can tell you

They let this crap go on toooooooo long!! They were sooooo busy on the 'miracle mile' while the rest of the county went to sh!t!And the funny part is that the miracle mile ain't so hot either!

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They let this crap go on toooooooo long!! They were sooooo busy on the 'miracle mile' while the rest of the county went to sh!t!And the funny part is that the miracle mile ain't so hot either!

And it's a  lot less than a mile.

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They let this crap go on toooooooo long!! They were sooooo busy on the 'miracle mile' while the rest of the county went to sh!t!And the funny part is that the miracle mile ain't so hot either!

The alleged "miracle mile" is a tax free, no job zone. It reminds me of that phony town in Blazing Saddles. Great frontage-with nothing behind it.

     Also watch out for falling DEMS politicians. SS Savage and her buddy Mayor SOS were the first to take a dive. Who's next?