Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

St. Joseph's church building was NOT sold.  St. Joseph's Church is still functioning as an active, vital Catholic parish.

IF DV had any intelligence at all, he would have responded nicely by telling benny that the church was St Mary's, not St Joseph's.  Just proof that DV does NOT really know anything about the city, knows NOTHING about taxes and can't even respond intelligently to correct the church name.   Obviously he doesn't know that the priest from St Johns that Carlino (who fled on one of his world trips just hours before the announcement came about that he was closing the last Catholic school in the city---after taking away al the fundraisers by the way), is the one who sold the old school from that St Mary's church to an absentee slumlord LLC from NYC I think, who never paid taxes and look at that building today.  But keep cheering for plex and the dem leaders who are casing MASSIVE DECLINES to Schenectady's tax base and they are causing increased taxex, falling home values, falling home sales and prices, but DV will NEVER respond to those FACTS.

Do they realize that green spaces need up keep? If they demolish building and keep them for "green space" we'll just be seeing stories in a few years about the dangerous empty lots on Eastern Ave.

No doubt it will resort to the "Adopt a (fill in the blank)" scenario.   Like the bridges, bike paths, roadways, islands, parks etc.   The grass will have to be cut.   Seem to recall about a year ago a home owner on Bedford Rd. was doing the grass cutting on a small island on that street, as the city was unable to maintain it.

Quoted from MOONGLOW

No doubt it will resort to the "Adopt a (fill in the blank)" scenario.   Like the bridges, bike paths, roadways, islands, parks etc.   The grass will have to be cut.   Seem to recall about a year ago a home owner on Bedford Rd. was doing the grass cutting on a small island on that street, as the city was unable to maintain it.

Does the city cite themselves when their "green space" is overgrown and not maintained like they do with residential property?  Residents should show up a city hall with citizen issued code violations for all the green space that isn't maintained.