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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 7:59:23 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Sept 27, 2019 10:53:30 GMT -5
We are still looking at very hot and dry weather here. It is going to drop into the 80's for highs for a couple of days and then climb back to the 90's again for the entire upcoming week.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 16:14:50 GMT -5
I wish I was living there. Well Eureka not in the city of St Louis!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 16:20:43 GMT -5
I mentioned to some Bus drivers if new routes could be drawn up to send the Buses through better area's of the City since it is so depressing to have to be exposed to so much decay in the City. Was told no. LOL. I don't think I could be a Bus driver and have to drive up and down James Street or over Lenox Ave or Bleecker St or just about any other one they now drive.
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Post by Clipper on Sept 27, 2019 17:42:55 GMT -5
I mentioned to some Bus drivers if new routes could be drawn up to send the Buses through better area's of the City since it is so depressing to have to be exposed to so much decay in the City. Was told no. LOL. I don't think I could be a Bus driver and have to drive up and down James Street or over Lenox Ave or Bleecker St or just about any other one they now drive. In the case of Utica it would severely limit the areas served. Buses would only run back and forth on Herkimer Rd and Riverside Drive, never to venture South on Genny. In the South end, they would only run from the parkway to New Hartford and Clinton. You need a chopper to pick you up in the back parking lot of your building and set you down in NH to avoid the blight lol. I always sympathize with Ralph when I visit him and his wife at their home. He lives in the old family home near the former UFA. A nice house in what used to be a very nice neighborhood and now his house is about the only one on the block that gets any maintenance or attention to the yard. Plus you need to be armed to take the trash to the curb. Our old friend use to live in West Utica, off the highlands between Whitesboro St and Erie St. She moved and rents the place to relatives because anyone else would wreck the house. It is now surrounded by run down homes. For people like you and I remember when those were both pristine neighborhoods with well kept homes and safe streets. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 19:13:08 GMT -5
The neighborhoods around St Josephs St Patrick's Church ( hell I wish they would rename that place so ya loose a few that don't like the idea who the hell cares) is also very run down. That auto repair garage next to the Church doesn't help either. They need to move. Then drive further up the street and good Lord the area is all slum.Mother Theresa would feel at home.
What gets me is that a new upscale apartment complex is being built across form the Brewery and that entire are is no good. Amazing what is this Mayor doing anyway.
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Post by BHU on Sept 27, 2019 19:39:10 GMT -5
People are leaving. Good paying jobs are scarce hence Utica has the highest povery rate in the state. Once they start bonding for the new hospital parking garage more people will leave due to the tax increases that are surely coming on the county & city level. IMO Picente & the mob wanted the hospial downtown instead of NH so they could stick Utica taxpayers with some of the costs associated with the new hospital that the state isn't covering such as the new parking garage. I'm waiting for election day so I can vote against Picente & also Palmieri who sold Utica taxpayers right down the river with this new downtown hospital.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Sept 27, 2019 21:49:21 GMT -5
How do you feel about Brindisi who inserted the rather ambiguous language (Oneida County's major population center) into the bill and then informed both the MVHC board and the Utica that that meant it had to go into Utica. He no longer claims credit for the new hospital on his resume.
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Post by BHU on Sept 28, 2019 15:53:56 GMT -5
I disagree with what Brindisi did but he wasen't the only one who wanted it downtown including Griffo. Utica residents should not have had to pay one nickel towards that garage considering we will be paying towards it anyway with county taxes which will be raised to pay for it. We're getting hit twice, & as usual county leaders screw over Utica taxpayers. Picente screwed Utica last year when he raised our county taxes after he stuck Utica taxpayers with the costs of operating MVCC. Where was Palmieri? Nowhere to be found.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Sept 29, 2019 11:01:43 GMT -5
Brindisi did advise the hospital board that the ambiguous language he inserted into the state budget bill meant that in order to get the $300 million they needed to build the new hospital in Utica. From there it morphed into a downtown redevelopment in all our politicians eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2019 11:49:30 GMT -5
Since it has to be in Utica to get the 300 million I think downtown is the only place to build it. I can't think of any other area where it could go. Besides I think the redoing of all the underground utilities and the rebuild of Oriskany St. Route 5 corridor really helped in the placement of the new hospital.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2019 10:29:24 GMT -5
82 degrees now and expected to hit 93 today.
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