I was taking a walk today on Schuyler and came across an empty space where the Mont Pleasant tennis courts use to be. They've been overgrown and in disrepair for years now but I hadn't heard anything about ripping them out completely. Does anyone know what the plans for that spot is?
I would say that there is no plan seeing how things are going here. I'd be surprised if most knew what you're talking about. I used to play league tennis 20-25 years ago, we used those courts along with others in the tri-city area. Sad to see, but this is 2012 in Schenectady.
kids would be killed for playing that "whitey" game now
"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 don't believe they have any plans for that area! It will just be left to rot. No money to be made there.
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There are definitely plans. 15 Love group is going to fix that area. They did a presentation at one the City Council Committe meetings.
They asked for City's help in clearing the area but they are definitely going to fix that area. they are a good group, gave tennis lessons in jerry Burrell and at the MP Courts this summer.
Definitely part of the solution
Think the work will get done eith in the Fall or Spring, they did all the fund raising themselves.
There are definitely plans. 15 Love group is going to fix that area. They did a presentation at one the City Council Committe meetings.
They asked for City's help in clearing the area but they are definitely going to fix that area. they are a good group, gave tennis lessons in jerry Burrell and at the MP Courts this summer.
Definitely part of the solution
Think the work will get done eith in the Fall or Spring, they did all the fund raising themselves.
good, until blood is on the court
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Hey now! That area is not that bad. I rarely hear gun shots and there have only been a few stabbings.....hmm...I think my standards are lower than they once were.
Hey now! That area is not that bad. I rarely hear gun shots and there have only been a few stabbings.....hmm...I think my standards are lower than they once were.
I go to combo's regularly to get Fish.
I feel sorry for the owners.
Surrounded by drug runners, boarded up storefronts and no hope that things will improve in the future.
No new businesses can survive on Crane St. The first $500 or more, of profit each month, must go to the tax man.
Out on the street the drug dealers and heavy police presence discourage people from patronizing Combos.
Combos and the Bakery are the last 2 surviving old businesses.
The second hand store had to move to Al Juryzinski's old store, because the former Dom Gallo Florist building went for back taxes.
The entire business district of Crane St has become unusable, unaffordable and undesirable for use as a legal business.
But of you are looking for a haircut and some ethnic food, with a side order of heroin or crack, you may find the neighborhood just right for you.
That's the choice you have - throw up your hands and surrender and say nothing will work or make an effort to save the enighborhood and/or improve the quality of life.
That part of MP is not that bad. The dividing line of serious decay seems to be around 10th Avenue.
Crane Street is a major problem - hopefully they can get some money to tear down the unsalvageable buildings and stop letting people open bodegas every 10 feet and close Joe's Bar - that would be a good start.
That's the choice you have - throw up your hands and surrender and say nothing will work or make an effort to save the enighborhood and/or improve the quality of life.
That part of MP is not that bad. The dividing line of serious decay seems to be around 10th Avenue.
Crane Street is a major problem - hopefully they can get some money to tear down the unsalvageable buildings and stop letting people open bodegas every 10 feet and close Joe's Bar - that would be a good start.
Poverty, street crime and drug dealing are all symptoms of excessive taxation and targeted enforcement.
They targeted the drug dealers out of Hamilton and will now target them to Bellevue.
More police and bulldozers won't solve poverty.
Less police and less taxes will.
Police are a major factor in property taxes.
Allow the police to be hired from the targeted area.
They will work together with the people, instead of terrorizing the neighborhood. War Zone!
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