Sch'dy YMCA housing to move next to social services in the old Schdy Chemicals Plant building on lower Broadway

is it a Bed and Breakfast or 4 star hotel
Social Service next door - you can save $$$ money on not needing the bus and support local business
hot dog vender outside -for lunch and dinner
Another World under the RR bridge - entertainment
Guderillies(sp) under the bridge and 1/2 way up broadway hill - for your addiction
dunkin donuts for your hangover and breakfast
all the services you could want in walking distance

remember when the Y stood for "Young Mans Christan Association"   ......

then the cancer law suits 10 years out, if the land owner hires the same work crew that did such a fine job on the building next door

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Stepping up to a new home
Schenectady project represents major change in meeting needs of homelessBy Lauren Stanforth
Published 9:23 pm, Saturday, February 16, 2013

Ronald McClelland is a Marine Corps veteran who recently knocked the taste buds off residents at a nursing home with his Southern-style cooking. His dream is to open a fish fry restaurant.

Felipe Cortes, who grew up in the Bronx, came to Schenectady eight years ago to be with the mother of his son and got an assistant manager's job at the Dollar General on State Street.

Leonard Neal struggles with a pulmonary disease and lost his permanent residence when a man burned down his house.

They are among the 182 men living at the downtown Schenectady YMCA in a program for chronically homeless people that's the largest of its kind outside of New York City.

The housing at the YMCA is called single room occupancy (SRO), one of many options available to help the chronically homeless that also includes shelters, transitional units and apartments for families. While a handful of other SROs exist in the Capital Region, as in Albany and Troy, the number of residents served at any of the sites is not nearly as many as those living at YMCA in Schenectady.........................>>>>.....................>>>>........................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Stepping-up-to-a-new-home-4285081.php#ixzz2LLpK6LA6

"But everyone will soon be leaving, thanks to $16.6 million in state grants and tax credits that will help convert a long-shuttered factory on Broadway into 155 efficiency apartments. It will be a big step up from the men's current quarters, which consist of 9-by-10-foot bedrooms and shared bathrooms.

The new $25 million facility at 845 Broadway, which is expected to open next year, will have 400-square-foot apartments with their own kitchens and bathrooms."
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Stepping-up-to-a-new-home-4285081.php#ixzz2LM24q8xe


$25 million dollars!?!?!?!? For a homeless shelter.

This is exactly why the taxpayers of this City and State are BECOMING homeless!!!!

Will this place look as crappy as the Galesi-multi-million-dollar-DSS-eyesore next door?

Unreal! Just totally unreal!!!!

The homeless are the forgotten...among them veterans......where is empathy and give them honor......

Enough of criticism.....they need help......where is the American way of taking care of our own......seems aliens get better treatment....where are the comments on that....

Quoted from Patches

The homeless are the forgotten...among them veterans......where is empathy and give them honor......

Enough of criticism.....they need help......where is the American way of taking care of our own......seems aliens get better treatment....where are the comments on that....

I agree with you Patches, but there is a small group on this board who consider America's Veterans as
evil and trash, not worthy of any assistance.  They blame the Veterans for US Wars.

Quoted from Box A Rox

They blame the Veterans for US Wars.

i don't take it as anyone 'blaming' them for the wars.................it's just that some 'still' 'support' the 'set up' and that they can't/won't/don't acknowlege it....k?

as far as moving the 'y' to this area is in question. not only about the location or the $$$....but the fact that these buildings are being used by 'humans'....PERIOD!!!

Quoted from Box A Rox

I agree with you Patches, but there is a small group on this board who consider America's Veterans as
evil and trash, not worthy of any assistance.  They blame the Veterans for US Wars.

Spoke with a nice Dad this weekend who had 3 tours in Iraq, received a purple heart (you know, his kids get a free college education and he receives many tax breaks as a purple heart receipient), he suffers from PTSD and I asked him how Veteran's are treated back here. He told me that his medical benefits are very good, he is getting the help he needs for his severe PTSD and that Veteran Affairs helped him secure a full time job. I thanked him for all he has done for our Country.

With that said, this YMCA is a homeless shelter for alcoholics, drug addicts and sex offenders as well. It's not a VA center...because if it was...the $25 million would have significant meaning.

It's just another non-profit...the City Mission just did an expansion last year. Why is another $25 million going into the Galesi bankroll again.

the crooks are running the government as we all know.....voters got what they wanted.....nothing has changed....and it never will until the talk stops and the walk begins..

BT states his way.....and that is not all that is to this corruption.......where is the change????????......and the same o same o explanation...

lets stop the talk....walk the walk......isn;t anyone up for change ???/......and a fight for the right thing????

It is a former chemical plant.

The city would have been stuck with the clean up and disposal anyway, which would have been millions.

This just adds to the government assisted living corridor, that starts at Summit towers, The Schenectady
County Jail, Schonowe Villiage, Lincoln Heights, Ten Eyck, and now the YMCA homeless shelter.

The Schenectady dumping grounds.

T.A. Predal's and the Schenectady Waste Transfer Station are also part of the same dumping grounds.

This corridor creates a nice cushion, separating their precious downtown, from all the section 8 tenants in
Bellevue, Mt. Pleasant and Hamilton Hill.

The largest homeless shelter outside of NYC! It's another social services magnet for easy DSS benes from the idiot County that doesn't check anything. We have Bethesda House, City Mission and Sal Army. We have NE Parent and Child.
Enough already. Dumping grounds for NYC is right. All for helping our own and many are hurting here. We don't need to attract the homeless from all other the NE. This is all about helping a connected developer famous for falling facades not built to City Code.
Keep the DEM implosion going--Re-elect the machine!

Quoted from Box A Rox

I agree with you Patches, but there is a small group on this board who consider America's Veterans as
evil and trash, not worthy of any assistance.  They blame the Veterans for US Wars.

the veteran's plight is man made by those in 'authority' who send them off to war's of 'need'...although it is a voluntary
army....you go ahead and keep believing in the 'authority' that deems what country we invade to selectively kill their
offspring....disrespect for authority? question authority? moral motives by authority? really? you believe that?
as for the vets...they are cogs just like the police officers...all told there is a higher power/throne in heaven etc...for
their sacrifice.....

and also remember that the vets HAVE NATIONAL HEALTHCARE....the scales will be equalized soon enough...

How is it that these men are homeless when they have been living at the Y for years? We need to come up with a new term that reflects reality. Why are these people being treated as chattel, a commodity? I see no reason why free adults should be moved around en masse for the benefit of some connected type. Poverty, Inc. is big business.

BTW, I went past the DSS building with someone who works in the building trades. It is his observation that the tape around the perimeter is inadequate protection for passers-by and someone is going to be injured by flying faux stucco sooner or later if the wind is just right.

Quoted from Madam X

How is it that these men are homeless when they have been living at the Y for years? We need to come up with a new term that reflects reality. Why are these people being treated as chattel, a commodity? I see no reason why free adults should be moved around en masse for the benefit of some connected type. Poverty, Inc. is big business.

BTW, I went past the DSS building with someone who works in the building trades. It is his observation that the tape around the perimeter is inadequate protection for passers-by and someone is going to be injured by flying faux stucco sooner or later if the wind is just right.

I think social engineering has always said that the American Dream is owning a home...some folks don't care to,
don't want to, don't know how etc etc.....kind of like folks living in the suburbia and urban areas instead of on
their own land to farm and feed themselves...
Americans have ceased to feed themselves and have relied on a system (fiat) in which to feed/cloth/house themselves..
the chronic 'homeless' are no different....they have opted out of 'the system' for reasons only they know about...

we are all the same in that respect....

being 'homeless' also means other humans will make your life's choices for you...

owning a home in suburbia requires taxes and the results of said paid taxes which also includes the increase of taxes

the value of owning a home/having a job/having a car etc is an individual choice/ability....we tend to 'feel bad' about
the homeless because they don't own live in a cape/center hall colonial and look/act like the rest of us...that's what
bothers Bloomberg, his conscience is scarred so he's going to round up everyone with a 'mental disorder' so he
can build his utopia...

I'm all about helping the next guy/gal but to have a whole system set that makes those that choose differently
'get after them' is sad....

I'm sure Paris Hilton and posse would find Rotterdam's homes (yes even the 'fancy ones') pretty oppressed and frightful...

public schools teach the system that is accepted...college teaches you how to maneuver it and gets you a paid ticket
war is a sadomasochist that strips you of your humaness, yet you still know the system and think you must get back
there because that's the only 'normal'

dirty shame

so 25 Million into 160 units  - or $156,250 for 400 sq ft each - crap, i can buy a whole house in schenectady for $57,000

then the homeless would NOT be homeless

Quoted from exit3

so 25 Million into 160 units  - or $156,250 for 400 sq ft each - crap, i can buy a whole house in schenectady for $57,000

then the homeless would NOT be homeless

Correct.  They could buy almost 500 homes for the same money!